INDEXES.

I. INDEX OF THE SYMBOLICAL LANGUAGE OF SCRIPTURE.

11. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDex.

III. GENERAL INDEX OF MATTERS.

IV. INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL TEXTS ILLUSTRATED.

I.

INDEX

OF THE

PROPHETIC OR SYMBOLICAL LANGUAGE

OF THE SCRIPTURES.

[Referred to, in Vol. II. p. 602, and also to facilitate the perusal of the Prophetic Books, analysed in this Volume.1

ABOMINATIONS.

1. Sin in general.-Isa. lxvi. 3. Their
soul delighteth in abominations.-Ezek.
lxvi. 50. They. committed abomina-
tion before me. See also ver. 51.
2. An Idol.-Isa. xliv. 19. Shall I make
the residue thereof an abomination?
See also 2 Kings xxiii. 13.

3. The rites and ceremonies of the idola-
trous and corrupt church of Rome.-
Rev. xvii. 4. Having a golden cup in
her hand full of abominations.
4. Abomination of Desolation.-The Ro-
man army, so called on account of its
ensigns and images, which the soldiers
worshipped, and which were abominable
to the Jews.-Matt. xxiv. 15. When ye
shall see the abomination of desolation
spoken of by Daniel the Prophet.
ADULTERESS, or Harlot.-An apostate
church or city; particularly the daughter
of Jerusalem or the Jewish church and
people.-Isa. i. 21. How is the faithful
city become a harlot! See Jer. iii. 6. 8, 9.
Ezek. xvi. 22. xxiii. 7. In Rev. xvii. 5.
Babylon the Great, the Mother of Har-
lots, means the idolatrous Latin church.
ADULTERY.-Idolatry and apostacy from
the worship of the true God.-Jer. iii. 8,
9. When backsliding Israel committed
adultery... with stones and with stocks.
See also Ezek. xvi. 32. xxiii. 37. Rev. ii.
22.

John iii. 8.-The wind bloweth where it
listeth, and thou hearest the sound there-
of; but canst not tell whence it cometh
and whither it goeth: so is every one
that is born of the Spirit.-John xx. 22.
He breathed on them and saith unto
them," Receive ye the Holy Ghost."-
Acts ii. 2. 4. Suddenly there came a sound
from Heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind.... And they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost.-See PRINCE.
ANGELS.

1. Angel of the LORD.-Jesus Christ.-
Zech. i. 12. The angel of the LORD an
swered and said... See Lowth's Com
mentary, in loc.

2. Those intellectual and immaterial Beings, whom the Almighty employs, as the ministers of his providence or of his judgments. Rev. xv. 8. xvi. 1. Seven Angels.-xxii. 8. I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel, who shewed me these things.

3.

The presiding ministers or bishops of the church. Rev. ii. 1. The angel of the church of Ephesus. See also ii. 8. 12. 18. iii. 1. 7. 14.

4. Fallen Spirits.-Matt. xxv. 41. Ever-
lasting fire prepared for the Devil and
his Angels.
ARM.

1. The infinite power of God in creating the world.-Jer. xxvii. 5. I have made the earth... by my great power, and by my AIR, Wind, Breath.-The Holy Spirit.- outstretched arm. See also Jer. xxxii. 17.

1 This Index of the Prophetic or Symbolical Language of the Scriptures, has been drawn up, after a careful perusal of the remarks on this subject by Sir Isaac Newton, Bishops Lowth and Hurd, the Commentary of William Lowth on the Prophets, the Rev. William Jones's Key to the Language of Prophecy, Dr. Lancaster's admirable Symbolical Alphabetical Dictionary prefixed to his Abridgment of Daubuz's Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, and Dr. Woodhouse's Notes to his Translation of the Apocalypse. Those symbols, and interpretations of symbols, which have been the subject of controversy among some late writers on prophecy, are designedly omitted.

weak and wicked princes who reigned over the kingdom of Judah from the death of Josiah to the destruction of the city and temple, and the taking of Zedekiah, the last of them, captive by Nebuchadnezzar.

2. The power, strength, and miracles of Christ.-Isa. liii. 1. John xii. 38. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 3. When Jehovah is said to make bare his holy arm, it means that he hath displayed his great power, which for a long time seemed to be hidden and unemployed.-2. Those who are weak in the Christian Isa. lii. 10. The Lord hath made bare his faith and knowledge, being ignorant and holy arm. inconstant, like infants.-1 Cor. iii. 1. ARMOUR-Such graces and spiritual wea- And I, brethren, could not speak unto pons, as are for the defence of the soul, you.. but as... unto babes in Christand by which we may be enabled to Heb. v. 13. For he is a babe. combat with our spiritual enemies.- BABYLON.-Papal Rome, with all her idoRom. xiii. 12. Let us put on the armour latrous rites.-Rev. xiv. 8.-Babylon is of light.-Eph. vi. 11. Put on the whole fallen. See also Rev. xvii. xviii. armour of God. BALAAM, Doctrine, error or way of-A ARROWS. defection from true religion united with immoral and lascivious practices.-Rev. . 14. Thou hast them that hold the doctrine of Balaam.-Jude 11. They have .... run greedily after the error of Balaam.-2 Pet. ii. 15. Following the way of Balaam. BALANCE.

1. The known symbol of a strict observ ation of justice and fair dealing-Prov. xi. 1. A false balance is abomination unte the Lord.-Prov. xvi. 11. A just weight and balance are the Lord's. See also Job xxxi. 6.

1. Calamities, or judgments of God.Job vi. 4. The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit.-2 Sam. xxii. 14, 15. compare Psal. xxxviii. 2, 3. and Ezek. v. 16. That calamities are represented among the eastern writers as the arrows of the Almighty, we have abundant proofs: one single instance, from the fine saying ascribed to Ali (or Aaly) the sonin-law of the impostor of Arabia, will illustrate this remark. "It was once demanded of the fourth Khalif (Ali), on whom be the mercy of the Creator, if the 2. Joined with symbols, denoting the sale canopy of heaven were a bow; and if of corn and fruits by weight, it becomes the earth were the cord thereof; and if the symbol of scarcity-Lev. xxii. 26. calamities were arrows: if mankind were When I have broken the staff of your the mark for those arrows and if Al- bread, ten women shall bake your bread mighty God, the tremendous and the in one oven; and they shall deliver you glorious, were the unerring archer, to bread again by weight, and ye shall eat whom could the sons of Adam flee for and not be satisfied.-Ezek. iv. 16. They protection? The Khalif answered, say-shall eat bread by weight and with care. ing, 'The sons of Adam must flce unto BALDNESS.-Destruction.-Jer. xlvii. 5. the Lord.' This fine image Job keeps in Baldness is come upon Gaza. view (vi. 8,9.) wishing that the unerring Bashan. See KINE, OAKS. marksman may let fly these arrows, let loose his hand, to destroy and cut him off." Dr. A. Clarke on Job vi. 4. 2. Abusive or slanderous words.-Psal. Ixiv. 3. Who bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words. 3. Children.-Psal. cxxvii. 4, 5. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. "The orientals are accustomed to call brave and valiant sons the arrows and darts of their parents, because they are able to defend them. To sharpen arrows, to make sharp arrows, is, among them, to get brave and valiant sons." [Burder's Oriental Literature, vol. ii. p. 53.] ASHES. See DUST and ASHES.

BABES.

1. Foolish and inexperienced princes. Isa. iii. 4. I will give children to be their princes, and babes (or infants) shall rule over them. This minatory prediction was fully accomplished in the succession of

BEAST.

1. A heathen kingdom or power of the
earth.-Dan. vii. 17. These great beasts,
which are four, are four kings. See
pp. 189–191. of this volume.
2. The papal antichrist.-Rev. xiii. 2. 12.
BED.-Great tribulation and anguish.-
Rev. ii. 22. I will cast her into a bed.
To be tormented in bed, where men seek
rest, is peculiarly grievous. See Psal. vi.
6. xli. 3. Job xxiii. 19. Isa. xxviii. 20.
BIRD of Prey.-A hostile army coming to
prey upon a country-Isa. xlvi. 11.
Calling a ravenous bird from the east ;
Cyrus and his army. Compare Jer. xii.
9. Ezek. xxxii. 4. and xxxix. 17.
BITTER-BITTERNESS.-Affliction, mise-
ry, and servitude.-Exod. i. 14. They
made their lives bitter with hard bondage.
See Jer.ix. 15.-Gall of bitterness. (Acts
viii. 23.) A state offensive to God.
BLACK-BLACKNESS.-Afflictions, disas
ters and anguish.-Jer. xiv. 2. Judah
mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground.—Joel ii. 6.

All faces shall gather blackness.-Rev. bread only, but by every word that provi. 5. Behold a black horse. The black ceedeth out of the mouth of God. colour of the horse in this place indicates 2. One bread. (1 Cor. x. 17.) The union that the publication of the Gospel, at the of real Christians.

time alluded to, will, by way of punish-BREATH. See AIR.
ment upon the heathens for refusing to BRETHREN.-Christians united by their
hear it, be attended with great affliction. profession.-Rom. xii. 1. I beseech you,
[Daubuz and Woodhouse in loc.]
brethren. See Acts xxi. 7. 1 Cor. xv. 6.
BLINDNESS.-Want of understanding in BRIARS.-Mischievous, and hurtful per-
divine wisdom.-Isa. xxix. 18. In that sons.-Isa. lv. 13. Instead of the briar
day.... the eyes of the blind shall see shall come up the myrtle-tree. See
out of obscurity, and out of darkness. THORNS, 2.
BLOOD.

1. Slaughter and mortality.-Isa. xxxiv. 3.
The mountains shall be melted with
blood. See Jer. xiv. 19. Ezek. xxxii. 6.
2. Blood of the covenant.-(Matt. xxvi.
28.) The blood of Christ, who died in
consequence of a covenant to redeem
sinners.

BRIDE-The Heavenly Jerusalem.-
Rev. xxi. 9. The bride, the Lamb's wife.
BRIDEGROOM.-Christ, as the spouse of the
church.-Rev. xxi. 9. See also VOICE, 1.
BRIMSTONE.

1. Perpetual torment and destruction.---
Job xviii. 15. Brimstone shall be scatter-
ed upon his habitation; that is, his house
or family shall be destroyed for ever by
an inextinguishable fire. Compare Isa.
xxxiv. 9, 10. Rev. xiv. 10. &c.

Corrupt, infernal, and destructive doctrines.-Rev. ix. 17. out of their mouth issued fire and brimstone. See verse 18. BULLS.-Wicked, violent men.-Psal. xxii. 12. Many bulls have compassed me; strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round: that is, mine enemies, who are as furious and formidable as the bulls fed in the rich pastures of Bashan, beset me on every side.

BODY. A society; the church, with its
different members.-1 Cor. xii. 20-27.
Book of Life.-Rev. iii. 5. I will not blot
out his name out of the Book of Life. 2.
"As, in states and cities, those who ob-
tained freedom and fellowship, were en-
rolled in the public register, which en-
rolment was their title to the privileges
of citizens, so the King of heaven, of the
New Jerusalem, engages to preserve in
his register and enrolment, in the book
of life, the names of those who, like the
good Sardians, in a corrupted and su-
pine society, shall preserve allegiance
and a faithful discharge of their Chris-
tian duties. He will own them as his
fellow-citizens, before men and angels.
Matt. ix. 32. Luke xii. 8. See also Psal.
Ixix. 28. Ezek. xiii. 9. Exod. xxxii. 33.
Dan. xii. 1. Mal. iii. 16. Luke x. 20."
[Dean Woodhouse on Rev. iii. 5.]
BOTTLES.-The inhabitants of Jerusalem,
whom God threatened to fill with the
wine of terror.-Jer. xiii. 12. Every
bottle shall be filled with wine.
Bow.

1. Strength.-Job xxix. 20. My bow was
renewed in my hand.

BURNING. See FIRE, 2.

CANDLESTICK. See LAMP.
CEDARS.

1. Great men.-Zech. xi. 2. The cedar
is fallen.

The

upon all

2. Cedars of Lebanon.—Kings, princes,
and nobles of Judah.-Isa. ii. 13.
day of the Lord shall be ....
the cedars of Lebanon.
3. Top of the young twigs of cedars.-
The prime nobility and able soldiery.-
Ezek. xvii. 4. He cropped off the top of
the young twigs.

2. Victory-Rev. vi. 2. He that sat on him CHAFF.-Unprofitable and worthless men. had a bow, where it signifies the pro-Psal. i. 4. The ungodly are... like the gress of the Gospel, which was assisted chaff, which the wind driveth away.-by sudden and unexpected and miracu- Matt. iii. 12. He will burn up the chaff lous aid and deliverance. with unquenchable fire. BOWELS.-Pity, compassion.-Luke i. 78. CHAIN.-Bondage or affliction.-Lam. iji. Through the tender mercy (literally bow- 7. He hath made my chain heavy. els of mercy) of our God. CIRCUMCISION.-An engagement like that BRANCH. See TREES, 3. of baptism, to renounce the flesh and BRASS.-Strength.-Psal. cvii. 16. circumcise the heart.-Deut. x. 16. Cirhath broken the gates of brass; that is, cumcise therefore the foreskin of your the strong gates. See Isa. xlv. 2. In heart.-Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God Jer. i. 18. and xv. 20. brazen walls sig- shall circumcise thine heart.-Rom. ii. nify a strong and lasting adversary and 29. Circumcision is that of the heart. CLAY in the hands of the potter.-Man in the hands of his Creator.-Isa. lxiv. 8. Now, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay; and thou our potter, and we

opposer.

BREAD or Food.

He

1. The word of God.-Deut. viii. 3. Matt. iv 4. Man doth not (or shall not) live by