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Ezekiel - His famous prophecies include his
Vision of the Merkavah, a detailed description of the Third Holy Temple, and the
Vision of the valley of dry bones. ...
Ezekiel, the Book of: The book of Tanach containing Ezekiel's prophecies, including his
Vision of the Merkavah, a detailed description of the Third Holy Temple, and the
Vision of the valley of dry bones
Yechezkel - His famous prophecies include his
Vision of the Merkavah, a detailed description of the Third Holy Temple, and the
Vision of the valley of dry bones. ...
Yechezkel: The book of Tanach containing Ezekiel's prophecies, including his
Vision of the Merkavah, a detailed description of the Third Holy Temple, and the
Vision of the valley of dry bones
Pantoscopic - ) Literally, seeing everything; - a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant
Vision, the lower for
Vision of near objects
Vision - ...
Châzôn (חָזוֹן, Strong's #2377), “vision. First, it refers to the means itself, to a prophetic “vision” by which divine messages are communicated: “The days are prolonged, and every
Vision faileth” (
Vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he” ( Vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz …” ( Vision” (Joel 2:28: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see
Visions. 22:29), “to see” in a prophetic
Vision (
Vision: “Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity
Infant Jesus, Apparition of the - Representation in art associated with Saint Anthony of Padua, because of his
Vision of the Infant Jesus; Saint Francis of Assisi, by reason of his
Vision when receiving the stigmata; Saint Christopher as ferryman carrying the Infant Jesus
Apparition of the Infant Jesus - Representation in art associated with Saint Anthony of Padua, because of his
Vision of the Infant Jesus; Saint Francis of Assisi, by reason of his
Vision when receiving the stigmata; Saint Christopher as ferryman carrying the Infant Jesus
Ir - Watchman; city;
Vision
Ahaziah - Seizure;
Vision of the Lord
Ahuzam - Their taking or possessing
Vision
Areli - The light or
Vision of God
Presbyopia - A defect of
Vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of
Vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses
Peniel - Face or
Vision of God; that sees God
Yeshayahu - His prophecies include the
Vision of the Merkavah and many descriptions of the Messianic Era. ...
Yeshayahu: The book of Tanach containing Isaiah's prophecies, including his
Vision of the Merkavah and many prophecies regarding the Messianic Era
Pseudoblepsis - ) False or depraved sight; imaginary
Vision of objects
Reuben - Who sees the son; the
Vision of the son
Isaiah - His prophecies include the
Vision of the Merkavah and many descriptions of the Messianic Era. ...
Isaiah, the book of: The book of Tanach containing Isaiah's prophecies, including his
Vision of the Merkavah and many prophecies regarding the Messianic Era
Vision - First, a
Vision was given for immediate direction, as with Abram in
Genesis 12:1-3 ; Lot,
Genesis 19:15 ; Balaam,
Numbers 22:22-40 ; and Peter,
Acts 12:7 . Second, a
Vision was given to develop the kingdom of God by revealing the moral and spiritual deficiencies of the people of God in light of God's requirements for maintaining a proper relationship with Him. The
Vision of prophets such as Isaiah, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and John are representative of this aspect of revelation. ...
Several Greek and Hebrew terms are translated by the English word
Vision. ...
Vision in varying forms occurs approximately thirty times in the Book of Daniel. ) the
Vision was the primary means of communication between God and the prophet. “Vision” and “Word of Yahweh” became synonymous in these prophetic writings (see
Obadiah 1:1 )
Clear-Seeing - ) Having a clear physical or mental
Vision; having a clear understanding
Glede - Raah, so-called from its acute
Vision
Perimetry - ) The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of
Vision
Louchettes - ) Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting
Vision only directly in front
ha'zo - (vision ), a son of Nahor, by Milcah his wife
Pethu'el - (vision of God ), the father of the prophet Joel
Optometer - ) An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct
Vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses
Hezion -
Vision, the father of Tabrimon, and grandfather of Ben-hadad, king of Syria (
1 Kings 15:18 )
Hemiopsia - ) A defect of
Vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at
Visioned - ) of
Vision...
(2):...
(a. ) Having the power of seeing
Visions; inspired; also, seen in
Visions
Dream, Dreamer - A — 1: ὄναρ (Strong's #3677 — Noun Neuter — onar — on'-ar ) is "a
Vision in sleep," in distinction from a waking
Vision,
Matthew 1:20 ; 2:12,13,19,22 ; 27:19 . For synonymous nouns, see
Vision
Child - Representation in Christian art associated the Saints Augustine and Hilary, in the case of Saint Augustine referring to his
Vision
Photics - ) The science of light; - a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing
Vision
Pethuel - (pih thyoo' ehl) Personal name meaning, “vision of God” or “youth of God
Sebat - (ssee' bat) Eleventh month in Babylonian calendar used to date Zechariah's
Vision (
Numbers 1:7 )
Shabbat chazon - "Sabbath of
Vision"); the Shabbat before Tishah BeAv, so called because of the passage �Chazon� (
Isaiah 1:1) read for the Haftorah ...
Vision - In modern English, ‘vision,’ from Lat. It is the distinctive function of the seer (תֹוָה and רֹאָה) to see
Visions, and those isolated and exalted persons are well represented by Samuel, who is the only seer known to us by his proper name. In his childhood, we are told, the
Vision (חָווֹן) was not widely diffused (
1 Samuel 3:1). The same word for ‘vision’ is found in
Proverbs 29:18 in the statement ‘Where there is no
Vision, the people perish,’ or ‘cast off restraint. Jeremiah warns the people against the
Visions of false prophets which are elaborated out of the uninspired minds of those whom God had not sent (
Jeremiah 14:14;
Jeremiah 23:16). ...
In the OT it is evident that
Visions, though often associated with dreams (
Joel 2:28), are to be distinguished from them. Whilst dreams may be the medium for God’s revelations, by way of ‘special providences’ during sleep,
Visions may occur during waking moments and by the exaltation or perhaps the transcendence of the natural powers of sight. A
Vision is thus the ‘sight’ or perception of spiritual realities, communicated either by means of the illumination or exaltation of the natural senses or by immediate consciousness through the supersession of them. Whether this be so or not it is difficult to determine, inasmuch as the cases of
Vision in the NT and in more recent times imply a direct presentation in a concrete or personal form, or as an image before the consciousness. In the report given to our Lord by the two disciples on their way to Emmaus of the
Vision of angels seen by the women, the word ὀπτασία is used (
Luke 24:23). Paul referred before Agrippa to the heavenly
Vision he spoke of the ὀπτασία (
Acts 26:19), but in the account of the actual occurrence given by St. That this word connotes a high degree of reality and objectivity is evidenced by the fact that it was used by our Lord when, referring to the Transfiguration, He warned His disciples to tell the
Vision (ὄραμα) to no man (
Matthew 17:9). Peter’s
Vision, whilst it conveyed to him God’s revelation as to his treatment of the conscientious Gentile, was presented in a concrete form, the objectivity of which seems never to have been questioned (Acts 10). On the other hand, when he doubted the actuality of the presence of the angel (
Acts 12:9), and the deliverance which had been wrought, he thought he had seen a
Vision (ὄραμα). ...
Probably no recital of
Visions engaged the minds of the Christians in the 1st (if the earlier date be accepted) or the 2nd cent. -Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) , articles ‘Vision’ and ‘Prophecy’; Shepherd of Hermas (Lightfoot
and other editions); F
Dichromic - ) Furnishing or giving two colors; - said of defective
Vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three
Dioptrical - ) Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting
Vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope
Asquint - ) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of
Vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint
Scotomy - ) Obscuration of the field of
Vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye
Optometry - ) Measurement of the range of
Vision, esp. ) "The employment of any means, other than the use of drugs, for the measurement of the powers of
Vision and adaptation of lenses for the aid thereof
el-Bethel - God of Bethel, the name of the place where Jacob had the
Vision of the ladder, and where he erected an altar (
Genesis 31:13 ; 35:7 )
Opsiometer - ) An instrument for measuring the limits of distincts
Vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight
Order, Seraphic - Name applied to the Franciscan Order, founded by Saint Francis of Assisi, the Seraphic Father, so called because of a
Vision in which a seraph appeared to him
Seraphic Order - Name applied to the Franciscan Order, founded by Saint Francis of Assisi, the Seraphic Father, so called because of a
Vision in which a seraph appeared to him
Dimness - ) Dullness, or want of clearness, of
Vision or of intellectual perception
Jacob - ) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a
Vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen
Kenning - ) The limit of
Vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles
Optics - ) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of
Vision
Monocular - ) Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular
Vision
Dim - ) Of obscure
Vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse. ) To deprive of distinct
Vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of
el-Bethel - The name which Jacob is said to have given to the scene of his
Vision on his way back from Paddau-aram,
Genesis 35:7 (P
Perimeter - ) An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of Vision
Lydia - A woman of Thyatira, for whose conversion Paul was called by a
Vision to preach at Philippi
Revery - ) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a
Vision
Second-Sight - such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic
Vision
Loco Disease - A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective
Vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation
Vision -
Vision...
1. In its earlier form the
Vision is closely associated with belief in dreams (wh. The two words are repeatedly used of the same experience, the dream being rather the form , the
Vision the substance ( e. The common phrase ‘visions of the night’ embodies the same conception (
Galatians 1:11-17 ,
Job 4:13 ,
Genesis 46:2 ; cf. But in the later OT books neither ecstasy nor the objective
Vision, with its disclosure in cryptic symbolism of future happenings (Daniel), or of the nature and purposes of God (Ezekiel, Zechariah), has a place in the normal line of development of man’s conception of the methods of Divine revelation. The earlier prophets had already attained to the idea of
Vision as inspired insight, of revelation as an inward and ethical word of God (
Isaiah 1:1 ;
Isaiah 2:1 etc. In
Isaiah 22:1 ;
Isaiah 22:5 gç’ hizzâyôn ‘ valley of
Vision ’ (EV
Hawkweed - ) A plant of the genus Hieracium; - so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their Vision
Astigmatism - ) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of
Vision
Beatific Vision - Their earthly knowledge of Him, caught in the reflection of created things, has been changed to direct
Vision
he'Zion - (vision ), a king of Aram (Syria), father of Tabrimon and grandfather of Ben-hadad I
Blur - ) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of
Vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur. ) To cause imperfection of
Vision in; to dim; to darken
Vision - 1: ὅραμα (Strong's #3705 — Noun Neuter — horama — hor'-am-ah ) "that which is seen" (horao), denotes (a) "a spectacle, sight,"
Matthew 17:9 ;
Acts 7:31 ("sight"); (b) "an appearance,
Vision,"
Acts 9:10 (ver. ...
2: ὅρασις (Strong's #3706 — Noun Feminine — horasis — hor'-as-is ) "sense of sight," is rendered "visions" in
Acts 2:17 ;
Revelation 9:17 . ...
3: ὀπτασία (Strong's #3701 — Noun Feminine — optasia — op-tas-ee'-ah ) (a late form of opsis, "the act of seeing"), from optano, "to see, a coming into view," denotes a "vision" in
Luke 1:22 ; 24:23 ;
Acts 26:19 ;
2 Corinthians 12:1
Vision - Faith here is turned into
Vision there.
Vision is far more perfect and acute in some animals than in man. No dreams, but
Visions strange. Such were the
Visions of Isaiah, of Amos, of Ezekiel, &c
Evident - ) Clear to the
Vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident
Reuben - His name is derived from Rahah, to seeâand Ben, son; so that the compound may be, the son of
Vision
Juliana of Norwich - She is known as author or recipient of the
Vision contained in the Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, the most perfect fruit of later medieval mysticism in England
Julian of Norwich - She is known as author or recipient of the
Vision contained in the Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, the most perfect fruit of later medieval mysticism in England
Chromatrope - ) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of
Vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored
Norwich, Juliana of - She is known as author or recipient of the
Vision contained in the Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, the most perfect fruit of later medieval mysticism in England
Norwich, Julian of - She is known as author or recipient of the
Vision contained in the Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, the most perfect fruit of later medieval mysticism in England
Vision(s) -
Visions occur frequently in the Bible as instruments of supernatural revelation. ...
The terms used to designate
Visions in both Testaments have to do with seeing or perceiving. The Old Testament terms for
Vision (the Hebrew verbs raa and haza and their several noun derivatives) mean simply to look at or to see. In the New Testament, horao
is one of the Greek verbs for see, observe, or perceive, but its related noun (horama
) is the common term for "vision. "...
Revelatory
Visions portray scenery or dramatic circumstances to the human recipient while the human is awake. The distinction between a
Vision and a dream has to do with whether the human is awake or asleep; the result is the same. The prophetic use of dreams and
Visions is summarized in the Lord's dramatic defense of Moses in the face of Aaron and Miriam's revolt: "When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in
Visions, I speak to him in dreams" (
Numbers 12:6 ). ...
Visions are most frequently found in the prophetic portions of the Old Testament. A prophetic work could be titled as a
Vision (
Isaiah 1:1 ;
Nahum 1:1 ), and certain prophecies—Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariahdeveloped a greater capacity for
Visionary revelation. The extensive use of the term in nearly all the Old Testament prophets implies that
Visions were a normal medium for receiving the divine word. As such, the "vision" of the Old Testament prophets represents not just a
Visionary drama perceived by the eyes (as in Isaiah 6 , for example), but also a distinctive worldview or perception of reality that was proclaimed through the prophets. So the prophetic
Vision may be both a scenic, visual communication and a more general prophetic worldview. ...
Visions are also central to the biblical literature known as apocalyptic. In these books, God has revealed details of future events to a seer (human recipient), making heavy use of dreams and
Visions. The seer is permitted to peer into the heavens to witness scenes that determine future events, and the
Vision is usually explained by an angelic interpreter. ...
Visions play an important structural role in the Book of Ezekiel. The book is introduced as the "visions of God" (1:1). The book is structured around
Visions of the "glory of God" (1:28; 8:2-4; 10:18-22; 43:1-5), which portray the sacred and holy presence of God, first departing from the Holy City and then returning. ...
The prophecies of Zechariah contain a series of eight "night
Visions" (1:7-6:15). Though the interpretation of these chapters is difficult, it is clear that the
Visions reveal God's intention to deliver the beleaguered restoration community. The first and last
Visions stress the sovereignty of God, hence surrounding the others in a tenor of certainty. These
Visions contain an important prediction of the coming of God's servant, "the Branch" (3:8), a term that in biblical thought became synonymous with "Messiah. "...
As an apocalyptic book, Daniel is also a book of
Visions. The first six chapters are historical narratives in which the God-given ability to interpret dreams and
Visions plays an important role (
Daniel 1:17 ). It was Daniel's
Vision of the night that saved Daniel and the wisemen of Babylon from the irrational Nebuchadnezzar, who had been frightened by his own bizarre dream (
Daniel 2:1,19 ). The second half of Daniel contains four
Visions of great theological importance. The
Visions of chapters 7,8 are related to each other. Chapter 7 is both a dream and a
Vision (vv. The
Vision of chapter 8 presents more details of the experiences of God's people under the rule of the Medo-Persians and Greeks, and is interpreted by Gabriel. The third
Vision (
Daniel 9:20-27 ) comes to Daniel as a result of his prayer. The final
Vision (chaps. ...
Besides the Book of Revelation,
Visions in the New Testament are concentrated in the writings of Luke. Ananias and Paul received
Visions to prepare Paul for baptism (
Acts 9:10-19 ). Likewise, Peter and Cornelius received
Visions to prepare them for Peter's ministry among Gentiles (10:3-35). Angelic
Visions freed Peter from prison (12:9), called Paul to a European ministry (16:9), and encouraged Paul in his ministry at Corinth (18:9). So the
Visions of Luke-Acts announce God's plans for the immediate future or empower the church for the present. ...
The Book of Revelation is a record of prophetic
Visions given to John, who was exiled on the island of Patmos. The book is in the form of a letter (received address, 1:4-7, and concluding blessing, 22:21), the main body of which consists of a single, yet highly sectioned,
Visionary experience (1:9-22:5). The
Vision was revealed by a heavenly messenger, whose purpose was to point out "the things that must soon take place" (1:1; 22:6). The
Visions of the book reveal the struggle between God and Satan and their servants in heaven and on earth, in addition to
Visions of God's care for his people. ...
Throughout the Bible,
Visions of God and his sovereign lordship are needed in order to propagate his truth among humankind. Where prophetic
Vision is lacking (NIV's "revelation, "
Proverbs 29:18 ), proclamation of God's will among his people ceases, and civilization itself is jeopardized
Imagery, Chamber of - The picture of the representatives of Israel worshiping idols within the Jerusalem Temple in Ezekiel's
Vision (
Ezekiel 8:3 ) symbolizes the people's unfaithfulness to God
Binocular - ) Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular
Vision
Tetramorph - The representations of it are evidently suggested by the
Vision of Ezekiel (ch
Wraith - ) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a
Vision; an unreal image
Abraham's Bosom - Expression used by Luke to indicate the abode of the righteous dead before their admission to the Beatific
Vision after the death of the Saviour; the Fathers of the Church often use it to mean heaven
Jehovah-Shamma - The Jerusalem of Ezekiel's
Vision was known by this name
Sheet - Such a cloth held all the clean and unclean animals in the
Vision that taught Peter that God loved and offered salvation to people who were not Jews (
Acts 10:11 ;
Acts 11:5 )
Confuse - ) To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's
Vision
Optical - ) Of or pertaining to
Vision or sight
Chambers of Imagery - The
Vision is not of an actual scene, but an ideal pictorial representation of the Egyptian idolatries into which the covenant people had relapsed; having light enough to be ashamed of their idolatries, and therefore practicing them in secret, but not decision enough to renounce them, casting away their superstitious fears and self willed devices to allay them. Their own perverse imaginations answer to the priests' chambers in the
Vision, whereon the pictures were portrayed
Pervious - ) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental
Vision
Gabriel - He was sent to the prophet Daniel to explain his
Vision; also to Zacharias, to announce to him the future birth of John the Baptist,
Daniel 8:16 9:21
Luke 1:11,19
Dimness - Obscurity of
Vision imperfect sight as the dimness of a view
Finder - ) A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in locating particular points in the field of
Vision
Discernment - ) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental
Vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment
Outlook - ) The view obtained by one looking out; scope of
Vision; prospect; sight; appearance
Gabriel - At an earlier period he was sent to Daniel to unfold a
Vision
Trance - 1, denotes "a trance" in
Acts 10:10 ; 11:5 ; 22:17 , a condition in which ordinary consciousness and the perception of natural circumstances were withheld, and the soul was susceptible only to the
Vision imparted by God
Dream - ) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping
Vision. ) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping
Visions; - often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. ) To have a dream of; to see, or have a
Vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; - often followed by an objective clause. ) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a
Visionary notion or idea; to imagine. ) A
Visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; - in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth
Filippo Lippi - Two of his first works are "The
Vision of Saint Bernard" (National Gallery, London) and "The Death of Saint Stephen" in the cathedral of Prato. His masterpiece is "The
Vision of Saint Bernard" (Badia, Florence)
Lippi, Fra Filippo - Two of his first works are "The
Vision of Saint Bernard" (National Gallery, London) and "The Death of Saint Stephen" in the cathedral of Prato. His masterpiece is "The
Vision of Saint Bernard" (Badia, Florence)
Cornelius - A devout centurion of Caesarea, to whom God spoke in a
Vision, and to whom He sent Peter, who preached the gospel to him and to those he had invited
Kinetoscope - The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of
Vision, give the impression of continuous motion
Hiddekel - The river Tigris, mentioned as the third river of Paradise (
Genesis 2:14 ), and as ‘the great river’ by the side of which Daniel had his
Vision (
Daniel 10:4 )
Evidently -
Acts 10:3 ‘He saw in a
Vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day’;
Galatians 3:1 ‘before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth
Mist - That which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts
Vision
Darken - ) To render dim; to deprive of
Vision
Philippi - A city of Macedon, rendered memorable from Paul the apostle having preached the gospel to the people there by the direction of a
Vision, and having sent that blessed Epistle there which we have still preserved in the New Testament, and made so truly blessed to the church
Zechariah, Book of - Those chapters are written in the form of eight
Visions, with two messages of exhortation. This message served to validate prophecy, after which Zechariah related his
Visions. The first three
Visions predict prosperity for Judah and Jerusalem. In the second
Vision (
Zechariah 1:18-21 ), four smiths (agents of God's deliverance) overcome four horns (symbols of the nations that ruled over Jerusalem). In the third
Vision a man measures Jerusalem, only to find that it is too small to accommodate all those God would return to live there in glory. The
Visions conclude with a call to Exiles to return home from Babylon. ...
The last five
Visions deal with purification. In
Vision four (
Zechariah 3:1-10 ) the high priest Joshua is symbolically cleansed for his work. The fifth
Vision (
Zechariah 4:1-14 ) pictures God as a lampstand with two olive trees standing beside Him: Joshua and Zerubbabel.
Vision six (
Zechariah 5:1-4 ) involves a scroll flying through the air. (Was theft an especially acute problem in the poor, reduced state of Judah after the Exile?) In the seventh
Vision (
Zechariah 5:5-11 ), Zechariah saw an ephah, in this case a container with a heavy, lead cover. In the last
Vision (
Zechariah 6:1-8 ), four charioteers head out in all directions to patrol the earth (and presumably to punish evil).
Zechariah 14:1 envisions the Mount of Olives splitting in two, with fresh water (representing the blessings of God) flowing east and west watering the world.
Vision One: God's election mercy for His people replaces His anger (
Zechariah 1:7-17 ).
Vision Two: God punishes those who oppress His people (
Zechariah 1:18-21 ).
Vision Three: God's glorious presence will restore, protect, and expand His people (
Zechariah 2:1-13 ).
Vision Four: God wants to forgive and purify His people and their leaders (
Zechariah 3:1-10 ).
Vision Five: God exercise His sovereign rule through His Spirit and His messianic leaders (
Zechariah 4:1-14 ).
Vision Six: God condemns stealing and lying (
Zechariah 5:1-4 ).
Vision Seven: God removes the wickedness of His people (
Zechariah 5:5-11 ).
Vision Eight: The universal God defeats the enemies of His people (
Zechariah 6:1-8 )
Ladder - The angels ascending and descending in Jacob's
Vision point to God's presence with Jacob (
Genesis 28:12 )
Gehazi - Gehazi (ge-hâ'zî), valley of
Vision
Lens - ) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying
Vision
Trance -
Acts 10:10, Peter in trance received the
Vision abolishing distinctions of clean and unclean, preparing him for the mission to the Gentile Cornelius (
Acts 22:17-21). Concentration of mind,
Vision, and hearing on one object produces it. ...
Muslim's
Visions and journey through the heavens were perhaps of this kind; so devotees' "ecstasies of adoration. " His finding exactly three men, and at that very time, waiting for him below to go to Cornelius who had also beheld a distinct
Vision, could only be by divine interposition. The English "trance" comes through French from the Latin transitus, at first "passing away from life," then the dream
Vision state, in which the soul is temporarily transported out of the body and abstracted from present things into the unseen world
Sixth - 1: ἕκτος (Strong's #1623 — Adjective — hektos — hek'-tos ) is used (a) of a month,
Luke 1:26,36 ; (b) an hour,
Matthew 20:5 ; 27:45 and parallel passages;
John 4:6 ; (c) an angel,
Revelation 9:13,14 ; 16:12 ; (d) a seal of a roll, in
Vision,
Revelation 6:12 ; (e) of the "sixth" precious stone, the sardius, in the foundations of the wall of the heavenly Jerusalem,
Revelation 21:20
el-Bethel - ” Either Bethel or place in or near Bethel, where Jacob built an altar to God as memorial to his previous visit to Bethel, when he had seen a
Vision of God (
Genesis 35:7 ; compare
Genesis 28:10-19 )
Planks - The “thick planks upon the face of the porch” in Ezekiel's
Vision of the renewed Temple (
Ezekiel 41:25 KJV) likely refers to some type of canopy (NRSV; overhang, NIV; covering, TEV; cornice, REB) or to a threshold (NAS)
Pelatiah - One seen in a
Vision by Ezekiel, described as son of Benaiah, and who devised mischief and gave wicked counsel in the city, He died when Ezekiel prophesied
Marriage, Mystical - Taken in a wide sense it consists in a
Vision in which Christ tells the soul that He takes it for His bride; in a restricted sense, according to Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross it designates that mystical union with God which is the most exalted condition attainable by the soul in this life
Mystical Marriage - Taken in a wide sense it consists in a
Vision in which Christ tells the soul that He takes it for His bride; in a restricted sense, according to Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross it designates that mystical union with God which is the most exalted condition attainable by the soul in this life
Micaiah - He delivered his warning in the form of a remarkable
Vision, in which the weighty lesson is conveyed that God blinds judicially those who have shut their eyes and ears to his monitions, letting them be deceived by lying spirits
Disobedient - I was not disobedient to the heavenly
Vision
Eunan, Saint - He is the author of a biography of Saint Columba and "Adamnan's
Vision
Adamnan, Saint - He is the author of a biography of Saint Columba and "Adamnan's
Vision
Kite, - It is only distinguished in scripture for its keenness of
Vision, but this characteristic would apply to many different birds
Moving Picture - A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of
Vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move in some manner, as that of some original scene
Mist - ) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts
Vision
Rainbow - The bow is colored by the division of sunlight into its primary colors. While having a
Vision, Ezekiel compared the brightness of the glory of God with the colors of the rainbow (
Genesis 1:28 ). The Book of Revelation records John's
Vision of the throne of Christ as surrounded by the rainbow, “in sight like unto an emerald
Lourdes, France - "I am the Immaculate Conception" were the words of the
Vision. After examination on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities the devotion to Our Lady under the title of Notre Dame de Lourdes was authorized and a feast instituted on February 11, the date of the first
Vision
Hezion - (hee' zih ahn) Personal name meaning, “vision
Caedmon - According to Saint Bede, he was attached as a laborer to the double monastery of Whitby founded by Saint Hilda, 657, and was commanded in a
Vision to glorify God in hymns
Cedmon - According to Saint Bede, he was attached as a laborer to the double monastery of Whitby founded by Saint Hilda, 657, and was commanded in a
Vision to glorify God in hymns
Luz - Here Jacob halted, and had a prophetic
Vision
Bowl - The reservoir for oil, from which pipes led to each lamp in Zechariah's
Vision of the candlestick, is called also by this name (
Zechariah 4:2,3 ); so also are the vessels used for libations (
Exodus 25:29 ; 37:16 )
Trance - " Such were the trances of Peter and Paul,
Acts 10:10 ; 11:5 ; 22:17 , ecstasies, "a preternatural, absorbed state of mind preparing for the reception of the
Vision", (Compare
2 Corinthians 12:1-4 )
Gabriel - Champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to (
Daniel 8:16 ) to explain the
Vision of the ram and the he-goat, and to communicate the prediction of the seventy weeks (
Daniel 9:21-27 )
Wing - 1: πτέρυξ (Strong's #4420 — Noun Feminine — pterux — pter'-oox ) is used of birds,
Matthew 23:37 ;
Luke 13:34 ; symbolically in
Revelation 12:14 , RV, "the two wings of the great eagle" (AV, "two wings of a great eagle"), suggesting the definiteness of the action, the "wings" indicating rapidity and protection, an allusion, perhaps, to
Exodus 19:4 ;
Deuteronomy 32:11,12 ; of the "living creatures" in a
Vision,
Revelation 4:8 ; 9:9
Bethel - It was the scene of the
Vision of Jacob's Ladder and a sacred place under the Judges where the Israelites "consulted God" (Judges 21), and where the Ark of the Covenant was probably kept for a time
Haze - ) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes
Vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness
Ulai - River flowing near to the city of Shushan where Daniel saw himself in a
Vision
Leopard - 1: πάρδαλις (Strong's #3917 — Noun Feminine — pardalis — par'-dal-is ) denotes "a leopard or a panther," an animal characterized by swiftness of movement and sudden spring, in
Daniel 7:6 symbolic of the activities of Alexander the Great, and the formation of the Grecian kingdom, the third seen in the
Vision there recorded
Luz - The Canaanite name for the place in which Jacob rested and had a prophetic
Vision, and afterward the city of Bethel; now Beitin
Geha'zi - (valley of
Vision ), the servant or boy of Elisha
Sight - ) The power of seeing; the faculty of
Vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. ) The state of admitting unobstructed
Vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of
Vision extends; as, an object within sight
Cornelius - ...
A
Vision to Cornelius desiring him to send to Joppa for Peter, and a
Vision to Peter on the morrow, just as Cornelius' messengers, two household servants and "a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually" (for he followed David's rule,
Psalms 101:6), were drawing nigh the city, instructing him to regard as clean those whom "God had cleansed," though heretofore ceremonially "unclean," and desiring him to go with Cornelius' messengers "doubting nothing," prepared the way. Whatever uncertainty there might be of the miraculous nature of either
Vision by itself, there can be none of the two mutually supporting each other. An undesigned coincidence (a mark of truth) is to be observed in comparing "four days ago,"
Acts 10:30, with
Acts 10:9;
Acts 10:23-24, front which it incidentally comes out that four days in all intervened between Cornelius'
Vision and Peter's arrival, two days in going to Joppa and two in returning, just as Cornelius states
Domine Quo Vadis - A church situated on the Appian Way near Rome, on the traditional spot where, according to Saint Ambrose, Saint Peter was vouchsafed a
Vision of Christ
Uphaz - We read of the gold of Upham, perhaps the same as Opher: the certain man, Daniel saw in a
Vision, had his loins apparently girded with it
Gabriel - ” The heavenly messenger who interpreted to Daniel the meaning of the
Vision of the ram and the goat
Promises - If the
Vision tarry, wait for it till it come, and the appointed time shall surely bring it
Jaazaniah - Son of Shaphan, who appeared in Ezekiel’s
Vision as ringleader of seventy of the elders of Israel in the practice of secret idolatry at Jerusalem (
Ezekiel 8:11 )
Revelation - An extraordinary and supernatural disclosure made by God, whether by dream,
Vision, ecstasy, or otherwise, of truths beyond man's unaided power to discover. Paul, alluding to his
Visions and revelations,
2 Corinthians 12:1,7 , speaks of them in the third person, out of modesty; and declares that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body
ba'ca - (weeping ), The Valley of, A valley in Palestine, through which the exiled Psalmist sees in
Vision the pilgrims passing in their march towards the sanctuary of Jehovah at Zion
Hethlon - (hehth' lahn) Place name of unknown meaning on the northern border of Israel's Promised Land, according to Ezekiel's
Vision (
Ezekiel 47:15 )
Headstone - Zerubbabel's
Vision of a capstone quarried from the mountaintop was interpreted as an assurance that he would see the Temple completed (
Zechariah 4:8-9 )
Cinematograph - ) A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of
Vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects
Beer-Lahairoi - Hagar interpreted this as a
Vision of the living God and named the well where she was, Beer-lahairoi (
Genesis 16:14 )
Vision - In the first ages of the world the Lord was pleased to manifest himself to the children of God by
Vision; sometimes by open revelations, at other times by dreams in the night. ) Beside these, the books of the prophets are called
Visions. (
Isaiah 1:1) And even in the after-ages, when Jesus had finished his redemption work, and was returned to glory, the Apostle Paul speaks of
Visions
Trance - It is rendered 'trance' when Peter had the
Vision of the sheet let down from heaven; and when Paul in the temple saw the Lord and heard Him speak to him
Ulai - Ulai (û'lâi or û'la-î), strong water? A river of Susiana, on whose banks Daniel saw his
Vision of the ram and he-goat
Ladder - The comforting
Vision of the heavenly ladder shown to the fugitive Jacob, assured him of the omnipresent providence of God, and of his communication of all needed good to his people in the desert of this world,
Hebrews 1:14
Jop'pa, - Peter had his
Vision of tolerance
West - He recognized that the final stage of imperviousness and impotence had been reached, and that the Kingdom of Heaven required the removal of both teachers and teaching and a re-baptism of religious
Vision and thought (
Matthew 23:36-39, Mark 8:12, John 4:21). The same truth is suggested in the
Vision of the New Jerusalem as the city with an equal number of open gates on its four sides (
Revelation 21:13)
Vision -
Vision is also used for the prophecies written by the prophets. The beatific
Vision denotes the act of angels and glorified spirits beholding in heaven the unveiled splendours of the Lord Jehovah, and privileged to contemplate his perfections and plans in and by himself
Eye - ,
Matthew 20:33 ; of God's power of
Vision,
Hebrews 4:13 ;
1 Peter 3:12 ; of Christ in
Vision,
Revelation 1:14 ; 2:18 ; 19:12 ; of the Holy Spirit in the unity of Godhood with Christ,
Revelation 5:6 ; (b) metaphorically, of ethical qualities, evil,
Matthew 6:23 ;
Mark 7:22 (by metonymy, for envy); singleness of motive,
Matthew 6:22 ;
Luke 11:34 ; as the instrument of evil desire, "the principal avenue of temptation,"
1 John 2:16 ; of adultery,
2 Peter 2:14 ; (c) metaphorically, of mental
Vision,
Matthew 13:15 ;
John 12:40 ;
Romans 11:8 ;
Galatians 3:1 , where the metaphor of the "evil eye" is altered to a different sense from that of bewitching (the posting up or placarding of an "eye" was used as a charm, to prevent mischief); by Gospel-preaching Christ had been, so to speak, placarded before their "eyes;" the question may be paraphrased, "What evil teachers have been malignly fascinating you?;"
Ephesians 1:18 , of the "eyes of the heart," as a means of knowledge
Eye - ) The faculty of seeing; power or range of
Vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque. ) The organ of sight or
Vision. ) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of
Vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence
Dark - A dark atmosphere is one which prevents
Vision. To make dim to deprive of
Vision. To deprive of intellectual
Vision to render ignorant or stupid
Eye - ,
Matthew 20:33 ; of God's power of
Vision,
Hebrews 4:13 ;
1 Peter 3:12 ; of Christ in
Vision,
Revelation 1:14 ; 2:18 ; 19:12 ; of the Holy Spirit in the unity of Godhood with Christ,
Revelation 5:6 ; (b) metaphorically, of ethical qualities, evil,
Matthew 6:23 ;
Mark 7:22 (by metonymy, for envy); singleness of motive,
Matthew 6:22 ;
Luke 11:34 ; as the instrument of evil desire, "the principal avenue of temptation,"
1 John 2:16 ; of adultery,
2 Peter 2:14 ; (c) metaphorically, of mental
Vision,
Matthew 13:15 ;
John 12:40 ;
Romans 11:8 ;
Galatians 3:1 , where the metaphor of the "evil eye" is altered to a different sense from that of bewitching (the posting up or placarding of an "eye" was used as a charm, to prevent mischief); by Gospel-preaching Christ had been, so to speak, placarded before their "eyes;" the question may be paraphrased, "What evil teachers have been malignly fascinating you?;"
Ephesians 1:18 , of the "eyes of the heart," as a means of knowledge
Benizi, Philip, Saint - Obeying a
Vision of the Blessed Virgin, he entered the Servite Order, 1253, and was elected superior general, 1267
Pain - ...
Pain of loss results:
in Hell, from the eternal loss of God, whose possession alone in the Beatific
Vision can completely satisfy the desire of intelligent beings for happiness
in Purgatory, from the temporary deprivation of Him, whom the soul realizes to be the source of all happiness
in Limbo there will be no subjective pain of loss (not an article of faith, but the opinion of Saint Thomas
Pain of sense principally consists in the torment of fire
Censer - The heavenly worship also involved censers and incense, according to John's
Vision (
Revelation 8:3-5 )
Kitchens - Ezekiel's
Vision of the Temple included four small courts at the corners of the Court of the Gentiles where the sacrifices that the common people were permitted to eat were boiled (
Ezekiel 46:24 )
Thessalonia - Here Paul preached the gospel, being called to it by a
Vision
Jaazaniah - Son of Shaphan, and leader of the seventy elders who were seen in a
Vision by Ezekiel offering incense to idols
Seven Churches - There were seven assemblies in Asia, to which the
Vision of the Son of Man, inspecting the candlesticks, was to be communicated, and to each of which a separate address was given
Enlighten - To quicken in the faculty of
Vision to enable to see more clearly
Gabriel - The angel who was sent to Daniel to explain the
Vision he had seen of the ram and the he-goat, and to reveal to him the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
Visions - By means of
Visions God often vouchsafed to make known His will. When Samuel was a child, before the word of Jehovah was revealed to him, for a time 'there was no open
Vision. In the future when the Spirit will be poured out, Israel's sons and daughters will prophesy; the old men will dream dreams, and the young men will see
Visions. The book of Revelation is a series of
Visions
Telescopical - ) Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic
Vision
Troas - Paul was at Troas, when he had the
Vision of the Macedonian inviting him to come and preach in that kingdom,
Acts 16:8
Ulai - Or Euleus, a river which ran by the city Shushan, in Persia, on the bank of which Daniel had a famous
Vision,
Daniel 8:2,16
Dura, Plain of - A curious Talmudic legend makes this plain the scene of Ezekiel’s
Vision (
Ezekiel 37:1-14 ), which it regards as an actual event ( Sanh
Vanish - To disappear to pass beyond the limit of
Vision as, a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land
Gog - The
Vision respecting Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse (
Revelation 20:8 ) is in substance a reannouncement of this prophecy of Ezekiel. In both cases alike the
Vision describes the final workings of the world's evil and its results in connection with the kingdom of God, only the starting-point is placed further in advance in the one case than in the other
Baal-Zebub - (See
2 Kings 1:2-3) How very sadly this weak prince answered to his name! The man that was called Ahaziah should have had better views of the Lord, Achaz and Jah, meant,
Vision of the Lord. Whereas, his was a
Vision of folly! The Egyptians, it should seem, as well as the being near neighbours, paid divine to this contemptible idol
East Gate - In a
Vision, Ezekiel saw the glory of the Lord depart through the East Gate before the destruction of the city (
Ezekiel 10:19 ). His
Vision of the new Temple included the return of God's glory through the same gate (
Ezekiel 43:1-2 )
Observation - We apply the word to simple
Vision, as when one says, a spot on the sun's disk did not fall under his observation or to the notice or cognizance of the mind, as when one says, the distinction made by the orator escaped his observation. When however it expresses
Vision, it often represents a more fixed or particular view than a mere transient sight as an astronomical observation
White - A — 1: λευκός (Strong's #3022 — Adjective — leukos — lyoo-kos' ) is used of (a) clothing (sometimes in the sense of "bright"),
Matthew 17:2 ; 28:3 ;
Mark 9:3 ; 16:5 ;
Luke 9:29 ;
John 20:12 ;
Acts 1:10 ; symbolically,
Revelation 3:4,5,18 ; 4:4 ; 6:11 ; 7:9,13 ; 19:14 (2nd part); (b) hair,
Matthew 5:36 ; Christ's head and hair (in a
Vision; cp.
Daniel 7:9 ),
Revelation 1:14 (twice); ripened grain,
John 4:35 ; a stone,
Revelation 2:17 , an expression of the Lord's special delight in the overcomer, the new name on it being indicative of a secret communication of love and joy; a horse (in a
Vision),
Revelation 6:2 ; 19:11,14 (1st part); a cloud,
Revelation 14:14 ; the throne of God,
Revelation 20:11
Blindness (2) - ’ To the clear moral
Vision of Jesus the attitude implied in this objection showed a radical depravity of nature, an inability to discriminate between fundamental ethical distinctions. ...
This leads us to a predominant feature of the teaching of Jesus—His presentation of the gospel as
Vision. Light to those who see is its own evidence, and Jesus, therefore, in making this claim can desire no recognition other than that spontaneously made by the soul when purged from the sinful passions that obscure or deflect its
Vision. To secure effective
Vision there must be not only light, but also a healthy visual organ. Blindness may arise from the absence of light, from mere functional derangement of the organ of
Vision, or from some fatal organic defect in the organ. This presentation of Jesus as Light appealing to the organ of spiritual
Vision and vindicating empirically His unique Divinity dominates the whole of the Fourth Gospel. Where the faculty of sight is impaired, or destroyed, however clearly the light may shine, there is no
Vision. ’ The phrase implies that there never can be such radical defect of
Vision without personal guilt in the person so affected. Inasmuch as Jesus is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, there is in human nature, as such, the capacity of spiritual
Vision; but this capacity, either by disuse or perversity, may be so radically corrupted as to be impervious to the light
Seraphim - In his inaugural
Vision, Isaiah sees these supernatural creatures grouped about Jehovah’s throne in His heavenly palace. In the prophet’s
Vision they have human voices and hands (v. The seraphim may be traced in the Imagery and symbolism of the NT Apocalypse, where the four living creatures, in both their function and their form, are a combination of the seraphim with the cherubim of Ezekiel’s
Vision (cf. According to the latter view, the duty of guarding the threshold of the Temple would be the function that must be assigned to the seraphim of Isaiah’s
Vision
Seeing - ’ The most ordinary significance of the word ‘see’ is, of course, the natural one—to recognize by the act of
Vision ordinary external objects, as when the blind are described as seeing (
Matthew 15:31, John 9:7), or men are promised that they shall see the Son of Man, or when the disciples think they see a
Vision, or the multitude see the miracles of Jesus (
Mark 14:62, Luke 24:23, John 6:2). (1) The first usage under this head is where the verb ‘to see’ is used of the recognition of objects not strictly visible, as, for example, when it is said of Peter that he saw the wind (
Matthew 14:30); or when men are told that, if they first cast out the beam out of their own eye, they will then be able to see clearly to cast the mote out of their brother’s eye (
Matthew 7:5); or, again, when it is said that a man shall see death (
Luke 2:26, John 8:51); or when the Lord speaks of a man as ‘seeing the light of this world’ (
John 11:9), where, of course, it is more strictly the
Vision of objects made possible through the presence of the light of day. ...
(2) The second figurative sense is a very ordinary one in the Gospels, where the verb ‘to see’ is employed in the sense of the spiritual
Vision of the mind and soul. The disciples are told that in seeing Christ they have already obtained the
Vision of the Father (
John 14:9); while in another passage of the same Gospel the seeing of Christ and believing on Him are the conditions of possessing eternal life (
John 6:40). In this connexion also is to be noted the strange utterance of our Lord in
Luke 10:18, where, on the return of the Seventy, He speaks of His beholding Satan ‘fallen as lightning from heaven,’ which must imply His spiritual prevision of the final overthrow of the powers of evil, and the establishment of His Divine kingdom. distinctly states that the purpose of Christ’s presence in the world was first to bring light to blind eyes, but, secondly, to make blind those who were able to see; and this last statement is further explained in the passage by the answer given to the indignant question of the Pharisees as to whether they also were blind, that their fault consisted in claiming to possess the power of spiritual
Vision, while their hearts were closed to the real significance of Christ’s message; and so their boast of spiritual perception only magnified their sin. ’...
When combined with a preposition (εἰς), the verb βλέπω signifies ‘regard,’ in the sense of ‘pay obsequious attention to,’ as in
Matthew 22:16; and, finally, the word is used of God Himself in His
Vision of the hearts of men, as in
Matthew 6:6, which reads, ‘Thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee
Nahum, Book of - To console his people he foretells the fall of Ninive, hence the title, "Burden of Ninive," a book of
Vision
Miraculous Medal - It owes its origin to Saint Catherine Laboure, of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, who is said to have been favored with a
Vision
Medal, Miraculous - It owes its origin to Saint Catherine Laboure, of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, who is said to have been favored with a
Vision
Divine Comedy, the - An allegory of human life in the form of a
Vision of the world beyond the grave written, c
Divina Commedia, la - An allegory of human life in the form of a
Vision of the world beyond the grave written, c
Seraphim - (burning, glowing ), an order of celestial beings, whom Isaiah beheld in
Vision standing above Jehovah as he sat upon his throne
Bear - In Daniel's
Vision of the four great monarchies, the Medo-Persian empire is represented by a bear (7:5)
Goad - God warned Paul not to “kick against the goads” (KJV pricks) by refusing to submit to the heavenly
Vision (
Acts 26:14 )
u'la-i - (pure water ) is mentioned by Daniel, (
Daniel 8:2,16 ) as a river near to Susa, where he saw his
Vision of the ram and the he-goat
Springing - This Holy Spirit will reveal His presence in a multitude of ways, will give
Vision and vigor in the believer, and will enable him to be fruitful, useful and beautiful
Mahanaim - " The patriarch gave it this name because in this place he had a
Vision of angels coming to meet him,
Genesis 32:2
Knit Together - have the verb deo, "to bind," translated "knit," of the four corners of the sheet in Peter's
Vision
Interpret - To explain or unfold the meaning of predictions,
Vision, dreams or enigmas to expound and lay open what is concealed from the understanding as, Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh
Command - ) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or
Vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. ) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of
Vision; survey
Divine Nature, Partakers of - Thus men are enabled to share in God's ineffable beatitude by the beatific
Vision and love of the Triune God
Palmarian Catholic Church - In 1978 he announced that he had been crowned Pope by Jesus Christ in a
Vision, and established his own Holy See in Seville, taking the name Gregory XVII and naming cardinals
Dothan - It was the residence of Elisha (
2 Kings 6:13 ), and the scene of a remarkable
Vision of chariots and horses of fire surrounding the mountain on which the city stood
Brass - ' Brass is used as a symbol for righteousness according to the claims of God upon man, as in the brazen altar; the Lord as seen in the
Vision in the Revelation has feet like fine brass, 'burning as in a furnace:' that is, righteous judgement according to responsibility
Captain - For he it was, most probably, that Joshua saw in
Vision, long before his incarnation, before the walls of Jericho, as captain of the Lord's host, and before whom Joshua fell on his face
Moriah - ) What Jehovah has made one see (this hophal mowreh occurs four times in the Pentateuch, nowhere in later books) "the
Vision of Jehovah". In the same neighborhood He vouchsafed a
Vision to Abram (Genesis 14;
Genesis 15:1) after Melchizedek had met him in the valley near Salem and Abram paid tithe of the spoils of Chedorlaomer. Jehovah's
Vision to David in the same spot, before the preparation for building the temple there, revived the name Moriah (
2 Samuel 24:16;
2 Samuel 24:24-25
Sea of Glass - Moreover, in the Babylonian cosmogony the heavenly universe is divided into three parts corresponding to those of the earthly universe, the third and lowest division being the heavenly ocean (cf. ...
(c) In the apocalyptic
Vision of Ezekiel, upon which the symbolism of Revelation 4 is most directly based, a firmament like the colour of the terrible crystal is stretched over the heads of the four living creatures, and upon it is placed the throne like sapphire stone (
Ezekiel 1:22;
Ezekiel 1:26). ...
(d) In the
Vision of the Ancient of Days in
Daniel 7:9-10 a fiery stream issues from the throne. 10-17, is the similar
Vision of the house and of the throne of God, the floor of the first house is of crystal and that of the second house is of fire, also from underneath the throne come streams of flaming fire (cf. ...
(d) There may enter into the form of the imagery details taken from the local surroundings of the
Vision. 70) suggests that the aegean Sea, fired by the rays of the setting sun, has yielded the form of the splendid imagery of this
Vision. While this may be so, yet all the elements of the
Vision and their ensemble are an inheritance from the past. -The central motive in the Seer’s
Vision is certainly the relation between heaven and earth. Hence the Seer’s first
Vision, as he gazes through the open door, is the throne, the centre and source of all the subsequent action of the book
Most Blessed Trinity, Scapular of the - Said to have originated in a
Vision vouchsafed to Pope Innocent II in 1198 in which an angel garbed in these colors appeared to him and directed him to approve the Order of the Most Blessed Trinity for the redemption of captives
Charity, Heroic Act of - Heroism is manifested in the willingness to bear the dreadful pains of Purgatory, that other souls detained there may suffer less, and may sooner enjoy the Beatific
Vision
Beryl - The colour of the wheels in Ezekiel's
Vision was as the colour of a beryl stone (1:16; 10:9; RSV, "stone of Tarshish")
Troas - Here Paul, on his second missionary journey, saw the
Vision of a "man of Macedonia," who appeared to him, saying, "Come over, and help us" (
Acts 16:8-11 )
Chamber - , chambers painted with images, as used by (
Ezekiel 8:12 ), is an expression denoting the
Vision the prophet had of the abominations practised by the Jews in Jerusalem
Perspective - ) Of or pertaining to the science of
Vision; optical
Scapular of the Most Blessed Trinity - Said to have originated in a
Vision vouchsafed to Pope Innocent II in 1198 in which an angel garbed in these colors appeared to him and directed him to approve the Order of the Most Blessed Trinity for the redemption of captives
Maelmhaedhoc o'Morgair - ...
In 1590 there was discovered in Rome a collection of 112 mystical mottoes, which were said to have been written down by Saint Malachy during his visit to Rome in 1139, after he had received them in a
Vision. They purport to be brief descriptions of all the future popes from the time of the
Vision to the end of the world
Malachy, Saint - ...
In 1590 there was discovered in Rome a collection of 112 mystical mottoes, which were said to have been written down by Saint Malachy during his visit to Rome in 1139, after he had received them in a
Vision. They purport to be brief descriptions of all the future popes from the time of the
Vision to the end of the world
Sight - ...
A — 3: ὅραμα (Strong's #3705 — Noun Neuter — horama — hor'-am-ah ) "that which is seen" (akin to horao, "to see"), besides its meaning, "a
Vision, appearance," denotes "a sight," in
Acts 7:31 . See
Vision
Blind - ) To deprive partially of
Vision; to make
Vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle
Heaven - The supernatural beatitude of heaven fundamentally consists in the intuitive
Vision of God, i. ,the seeing of God face to face and in experiencing perfect happiness through this beatific
Vision
Father - This adoption is effected through sanctifying grace, a Divine quality or supernatural habit infused into the soul by God, which blossoms into the
Vision of glory in life eternal
Father, God the - This adoption is effected through sanctifying grace, a Divine quality or supernatural habit infused into the soul by God, which blossoms into the
Vision of glory in life eternal
Gehazi - (gih hay' zi) Personal name meaning, “valley of
Vision” or “goggle-eyed
Joppa - Here, on the housetop of Simon, the tanner, "by the seaside," Peter had his
Vision that led him to preach the gospel to Gentiles
God the Father - This adoption is effected through sanctifying grace, a Divine quality or supernatural habit infused into the soul by God, which blossoms into the
Vision of glory in life eternal
Sapphire, - In Ezekiel's
Vision, above the firmament, was seen the "likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone
Macedonia - Paul saw in a
Vision a man of Macedonia, who said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us
Almighty - Revelation refers to God nine times as “Almighty,” again giving a feeling of power to the
Vision of Revelation
Gomer - A harlot whom the prophet Hosea appears to have married in prophetic
Vision, as directed by God, that the Jews might be led to reflect on the guilt of their spiritual uncleanness or idolatry,
Hosea 1:1-11
Perpetua, Vibia - Perpetua now had her first
Vision, indicative of her future passion. After her condemnation Perpetua saw a
Vision of her brother Dinocrates, who had died when 7 years old, in punishment, but after continuous prayer for him it was revealed to her that he was removed into a place of refreshment and peace. This
Vision is a clear proof that prayers for the dead were then used by that party in the church which claimed to adhere most closely to apostolic usages. The day before her passion Perpetua saw another
Vision, wherein she triumphed over an Egyptian, representing the devil, and was rewarded with a golden branch. Tertullian certainly knew the Acts, as he refers to the
Vision of Perpetua in de Animâ , c. In the language of the
Visions we can clearly see the influence of the Apocalypse (cf
Transfiguration - The event is referred to by Jesus Himself as a
Vision ( horâma ,
Matthew 17:9 ); it is vouched for by the three Synoptists (
Luke 9:28-38 ,
Mark 9:2-13 ,
Matthew 17:1-13 ). Peter’s suggestion of the three tents is an attempt to materialize and make permanent the
Vision, to win the crown without the cross. The
Vision vanished, and they saw ‘Jesus only
Rainbow - , "iris," the flower, describes the "rainbow" seen in the heavenly
Vision, "round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon,"
Revelation 4:3 , emblematic of the fact that, in the exercise of God's absolute sovereignty and perfect counsels, He will remember His covenant concerning the earth (
Genesis 9:9-17 ); in
Revelation 10:1 , "the rainbow," RV, the definite article suggests a connection with the scene in
Revelation 4:3 ; here it rests upon the head of an angel who declares that "there shall be delay no longer" (ver
Hypocrites: Their Sinister Motives - See yonder eagle, how it mounts! Does it care for the ethereal blue, or aspire to commune with the stars of heaven! Not a whit; such airy considerations have no weight with the ravenous bird; and yet you will not wonder that it soars aloft when you remember that it thus obtains a broader range of
Vision, and so becomes the more able to provide for its nest
Prophets, False - Such are described as speaking "a
Vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord
Prospect - ) That which is embraced by eye in
Vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook
Brass - Thus in relation to Christ, John saith, when he saw him in that glorious
Vision, (
Revelation 1:15) "his feet were like unto fine brass, as if burning in a furnace;" denoting the glory and everlasting nature of his person and kingdom
Montessori Method - Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on
Vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative
Servant Friars - On the Feast of the Assumption in 1240 the Founders received a
Vision of Our Lady
Servites - On the Feast of the Assumption in 1240 the Founders received a
Vision of Our Lady
Shushan - It reads, "I saw in a
Vision; and it came to pass when I saw , that I was at Shushan. " He may have been there in a
Vision, or he may have gone there on the business of the king
See - ) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of
Vision; as, he sees distinctly. ) To perceive by mental
Vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain
Marvel, Marvellous - have the adjective thaumastos: see C, below), "(no) marvel;" in
Revelation 17:6 , RV , "wonder" (AV, "admiration"), said of John's astonishment at the
Vision of the woman described as Babylon the Great. ...
C — 1: θαυμαστός (Strong's #2298 — Adjective — thaumastos — thow-mas-tos' ) "marvellous" (akin to A and B), is said (a) of the Lord's doing in making the rejected Stone the Head of the corner,
Matthew 21:42 ;
Mark 12:11 ; (b) of the erstwhile blind man's astonishment that the Pharisees knew not from whence Christ had come, and yet He had given him sight,
John 9:30 , RV, "the marvel," AV, "a marvellous thing;" (c) of the spiritual light into which believers are brought,
1 Peter 2:9 ; (d) of the
Vision of the seven angels having the seven last plagues,
Revelation 15:1 ; (e) of the works of God, 15:3
Theophany - Yet the record is unmistakable that people did see God, such as Moses and others at Sinai (
Exodus 24:9-10 ); the Lord's rebuke of Aaron and Miriam (
Numbers 12:4-8 ); and the majestic
Vision to Isaiah (
Isaiah 6:1 ,
Isaiah 6:1,6:5 ). In the same passage when Moses begged God to show him His glory (
Exodus 33:18 ), the Lord graciously granted Moses a
Vision of Himself, saying, “I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen” (
Exodus 33:23 NAS). In
Vision Even self-seeking Balaam was allowed of God to see the Lord in
Vision (
Numbers 24:3-4 ). Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, giants among the prophets, saw God in
Visions (
Isaiah 6:1 ;
Ezekiel 1:1 ;
Daniel 7:9 )
Trance - The distinctions between “trance,” “dream” and “vision” are not always clear
Dream - In a
Vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (
Acts 16:9 ; see
also 18:9; 27:23)
Transfiguration, the - What these evangelists record was an absolute historical reality, and not a mere
Vision
Joppa - It was where Dorcas was restored to life, and where Peter had the
Vision of the sheet from heaven, with instructions to visit Cornelius
Dante Alighieri - In 1309, in anticipation of the visit to Italy of Emperor Henry VII, he wrote his famous treatise on the monarchy "De Monarchia" and in 1317, having settled at Ravenna, completed hig masterpiece, the "Divina Commedia," an allegory of human life in the form of a
Vision of the world beyond the grave, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, written with the avowed object of converting a corrupt society
Evangelists, Symbols of the - These are described in the
Vision of Ezechiel in his prophecy, and in that of Saint John in his Apocalypse
Macedonia - Paul was summoned by the
Vision of the "man of Macedonia" to preach the gospel there (
Acts 16:9 ). ), a "seller of purple," residing in Philippi, the chief city of the eastern division of Macedonia
Pillar - versions seems preferable; (b) figuratively in
Revelation 3:12 , indicating a firm and permanent position in the spiritual, heavenly and eternal Temple of God; (c) illustratively, of the feet of the angel in the
Vision in
Revelation 10:1 , seen as flames rising like columns of fire indicative of holiness and consuming power, and thus reflecting the glory of Christ as depicted in
Revelation 1:15 ; cp
Luz - In
Genesis 28:19 it is stated that Jacob changed the name of the place of his
Vision from Luz to Bethel (cf
en-Gedi - The Shulammite compares her beloved to henna flowers in En-gedi (
Song of Solomon 1:14 ); and in Ezekiel’s idealistic
Vision of the healing of the Dead Sea waters, a picture is drawn of fishers here spreading their nets (
Ezekiel 47:10 )
Alighieri, Dante - In 1309, in anticipation of the visit to Italy of Emperor Henry VII, he wrote his famous treatise on the monarchy "De Monarchia" and in 1317, having settled at Ravenna, completed hig masterpiece, the "Divina Commedia," an allegory of human life in the form of a
Vision of the world beyond the grave, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, written with the avowed object of converting a corrupt society
Famine - When the Scriptures are ruled out, then the people perish, the
Vision is gone, hope fades, and there is a general declension
Eagle - The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of
Vision, and extraordinary flight
Arch - In Ezekiel's
Vision of the Temple, each gate leading into the court of the Gentiles also had a vestibule (
Ezekiel 40:7-26 ) as did the gates to the court of the Israelites (
Ezekiel 40:29-37 )
Moriah - Moriah implies "vision;" and the "land of Moriah," mentioned in the above passage in the history of Abraham, was probably so called from being seen "afar off
Let Down - 1: καθίημι (Strong's #2524 — Verb — kathiemi — kath-ee'-ay-mee ) "to send," or "let down" (kata, "down," hiemi, "to send"), is translated "to let down," with reference to (a) the paralytic in
Luke 5:19 ; (b) Saul of Tarsus,
Acts 9:25 ; (c) the great sheet in Peter's
Vision,
Acts 10:11 ; 11:5
Issue - ...
B — 1: ἐκπορεύομαι (Strong's #1607 — Verb — ekporeuo — ek-por-yoo'-om-ahee ) "to cause to go forth" (ek, "out," poreuo, "to cause to go"), is used in the Middle Voice in
Revelation 9:17,18 , of the coming forth of fire, smoke and brimstone from the mouths of the symbolic horses in a
Vision, AV, "issued" (the RV renders it by the verb "to proceed")
Simon - ...
Descendant of Juda (1Paralipomenon 4)
Simon, surnamed Thasi, brother of Judas Machabeus (1Machabees 2)
Simon of the tribe of Benjamin; governor of the Temple (2Machabees 3)
Simon who is called Peter, the Apostle (Matthew 4)
Simon the Cananean, the Apostle (Matthew 10)
one of the relatives of Our Lord, identified erroneously with the preceding (Matthew 13)
Simon the leper, a resident of Bethany (Matthew 26)
a Pharisee at whose house the penitent woman washed the feet of Jesus (Luke 7)
Simon the Cyrenean, who helped Our Lord carry the Cross (Matthew 27)
the father of Judas (John 6)
Simon Magus, a magician in the time of the Apostles (Acts 8)
Simon the tanner, a Christian of Joppe, in whose house Peter had the
Vision commanding him to receive the Gentiles into the faith (Acts 10)
Simon called Niger, a Christian living at Antioch in the time of the Apostles (Acts 13)
Balaam - His seer's
Vision showed him a glorious star and a mighty scepter to rise out of Jacob
Symbols of the Evangelists - These are described in the
Vision of Ezechiel in his prophecy, and in that of Saint John in his Apocalypse
Gabbatha - Daniel was perplexed at the strange
Vision which he had seen. Pondering over it, he sees one ‘standing before him like the appearance of a man,’ and a voice is heard bidding Gabriel, for it is he, explain the
Vision. Daniel falls in a faint as the messenger approaches, and Gabriel lifts him up and explains the mysterious
Vision
Sight - At that rapt moment of high spiritual experience it is certain that, while bodily sight may be referred to, the emphasis lies on the higher
Vision He had come to impart. That men should have the capacity of
Vision and yet be blind to the true significance of Himself and His work, was a sincere embarrassment to Him (
Mark 8:18). ...
In
Matthew 6:22 and
Luke 11:34-36 He employs bodily sight with its commanding relation to the whole of human activities as an image of inward
Vision. The power of
Vision is central. ...
Other affections of the parts connected with the organ of
Vision might produce blindness, e. The blindness, deafness, and dumbness point to some serious defect or disease in the nervous tissue which controls the organs of
Vision, hearing, and speech; and the mental disorder is organically connected with the cerebral disorganization
Devil - Adorned at his creation with sanctifying grace, he sinned by pride, and with many other heavenly spirits was denied the' beatific
Vision
Scarlet - , in connection with the cleansing of a leper,
Leviticus 14:4,6 , "scarlet;" with the offering of the red heifer,
Numbers 19:6 ; (b) of the robe put on Christ by the soldiers,
Matthew 27:28 ; (c) of the "beast" seen in symbolic
Vision in
Revelation 17:3 , "scarlet-colored;" (d) of the clothing of the "woman" as seen sitting on the "beast,"
Revelation 17:4 ; (e) of part of the merchandise of Babylon,
Revelation 18:12 ; (f) figuratively, of the glory of the city itself,
Revelation 18:16 ; the neuter is used in the last three instances
Gomer -
The daughter of Diblaim, who (probably in
Vision only) became the wife of (
Hosea 1:3 )
Martin of Tours, Saint - Amiens in Gaul was the scene of the famous incident of Martin sharing his military cloak with a beggar, followed by the heavenly
Vision which led to his baptism
Macedonia - Paul was called there by the
Vision of the "man of Macedonia," and made a most successful missionary tour
Mercy: Excellence of - Everything seemed to be too good for ordinary mortals like myself; but when one is introduced into the gorgeous palace of infinite goodness, costlier and fairer far, one gazes wonderingly with reverential awe at the matchless
Vision
Asp - The prophetic
Vision is God's restoration of the world order so that small children can play around the holes of poisonous snakes without fear (
Isaiah 11:8 )
Beware - 1: βλέπω (Strong's #991 — Verb — blepo — blep'-o ) "to see," is applied to mental
Vision, and is sometimes used by way of warning "to take heed" against an object,
Mark 8:15 ; 12:38 ;
Acts 13:40 ;
Philippians 3:2 (three times); in
Colossians 2:8 , RV, "take heed," marg
Clean And Unclean - This view of the law was distinctly annulled by the
Vision to Peter, before he preached to Cornelius
Tours, Martin of, Saint - Amiens in Gaul was the scene of the famous incident of Martin sharing his military cloak with a beggar, followed by the heavenly
Vision which led to his baptism
Hosea - It is disputed whether the marriage of the prophet was a real transaction, or an allegorical
Vision; in all probability the latter is the correct view; but in either case it illustrates the relations of the idolatrous Israel to her covenant God. His style is obscure, and it is difficult to fix the periods or the divisions of his various predictions
Joppa - There Dorcas was raised to life (
Acts 9:36-43) and there Peter had a remarkable
Vision that changed his ideas about the evangelization of the Gentiles (Acts 10)
Zerubbabel - From Zechariah’s fourth ‘night-vision’ (
Zechariah 3:1 ff.
Zechariah 3:8-10 ) we learn that Zerubbabel was looked upon as the coming Messiah; in this night-vision it is pointed out that Joshua and his fellows are a pledge and an earnest of the near approach of the Messiah the ‘Branch,’ as he is here called; the stone which is to adorn his crown is ready, and Jahweh Himself is about to engrave thereon a fitting inscription; when the Messiah comes, God will obliterate all guilt from the people, and peace shall rest upon the land (see Branch)
Jeshua - Zechariah had a
Vision featuring Jeshua in which God announced the full cleansing of the high priest, preparing him to lead in the atonement rites for the people and pointing to the day when Messiah would come and provide complete and eternal atonement for God's people (
Zechariah 3:1 ). Jeshua was apparently one of the two anointed ones of Zechariah's
Vision (
Zechariah 4:14 ; compare 1619110855_75 )
See, Perceive - ...
Rô'eh (רֹאֶה, Strong's #7203), “seer;
Vision. 9:9) and to “vision” (
Vision” ( Vision (
Judaizers - Saint Peter himself in his great
Vision at Jaffa recoiled at first from the idea of eating the flesh of animals which were declared unclean by the Mosaic Code
Chameleon - It is remarkable for its marvellous protective gift of changing the colour of its skin to resemble its surroundings, and for its eyes which, moving Independently, one looking backwards while the other looks to the front, give it an unusual range of
Vision
Centurion - For instance, the one whose faith Jesus so commends in Matthew 8; Cornelius, whom Peter was by
Vision sent to, and who is described as "devout, fearing God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God always" (Acts 10); Julius, the centurion of Augustus' band, who entreated Paul courteously and saved his life when threatened by the soldiers (
Acts 27:1;
Acts 27:3-42;
Acts 27:43)
Earring - The Holy Spirit gives us samples of joy, peace, rest, zeal,
Vision and divine understanding, so that we too may be drawn to that unseen Lord with whom we shall spend eternity
Fly - When the eagle flies away toward Heaven it gets smaller and smaller to our
Vision until finally it disappears
Valley - Hence Ezekiel's
Vision in the valley of the dry bones
Spread Out - “To spread” may mean “to cover over” and thus to hide from
Vision: “And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known” (
Sprinkle - In Ezekiel’s
Vision of the departure of God’s glory from the temple, the man in linen takes burning coals and “scatters” them over Jerusalem (
ma'ry - (
John 19:25 ) In the evening of the same day we find her sitting desolate at the tomb with Mary Magdalene, (
Matthew 27:61 ;
Mark 15:47 ) and at the dawn of Easter morning she was again there with sweet spices, which she had prepared on the Friday night, (
Matthew 28:1 ;
Mark 16:1 ;
Luke 23:56 ) and was one of those who had "a
Vision of angels, which said that he was alive
Macedonia - After this
Vision, the Apostle no longer doubted his divine call to preach the Gospel in Macedonia; and the success that attended his ministry confirmed him in his persuasion
Veil - ...
2: κάλυμμα (Strong's #2571 — Noun Neuter — kalumma — kal'-oo-mah ) "a covering," is used (a) of the "veil" which Moses put over his face when descending Mount Sinai, thus preventing Israel from beholding the glory,
2 Corinthians 3:13 ; (b) metaphorically of the spiritually darkened
Vision suffered retributively by Israel, until the conversion on the nation to their Messiah takes place,
2 Corinthians 3:14-16
Cornelius - Providence thus explained his recent
Vision in the trance; he nobly discarded his Jewish prejudices, and at once began his great work as apostle to the Gentiles by receiving into the church of Christ those whom Christ had so manifestly accepted,
Acts 10:11
ma'ry - (
John 19:25 ) In the evening of the same day we find her sitting desolate at the tomb with Mary Magdalene, (
Matthew 27:61 ;
Mark 15:47 ) and at the dawn of Easter morning she was again there with sweet spices, which she had prepared on the Friday night, (
Matthew 28:1 ;
Mark 16:1 ;
Luke 23:56 ) and was one of those who had "a
Vision of angels, which said that he was alive
Sight - ...
In many cases of the blind there is not only a loss of
Vision but a loss of the eyeballs. ...
Now look at the prediction in this point of view concerning Christ, and it must instantly strike the mind with the fullest conviction that such acts to the bodies of men demonstrated his GODHEAD; for he not only gave
Vision, but he created eyes
Habakkuk - The prophet was told to write the
Vision so plainly that he who read it might run. The
Vision was for an appointed time, but it hasted to the end
Cherubim - In Ezekiel’s Inaugural
Vision (ch. The huge composite figures with human head, eagle’s wings, and bull’s body, which were placed as guardians at the doors of temples and palaces in Babylonia, supplied the prophet with the material for his
Vision. Basing his conjecture on Ezekiel’s
Vision, Schultz ( OT Theol . The living creatures of the Apocalyptic
Vision are borrowed from Ezekiel’s imagery
Ananias - A Christian of Damascus, who restored the sight of Paul, after his
Vision of the Savior,
Acts 9:10-17 ; 22:12
Eunuch - Part of Isaiah's
Vision of the messianic era was a picture of the eunuch no longer complaining of being “a dry tree”, one without hope of descendants, because God would reward the faithful eunuch with a lasting monument and name in the Temple which would be far better than sons or daughters (
Isaiah 56:4-5)
Immaculate Conception, Scapular of the - Blessed Ursula Benicasa, foundress of the Order of Theatine Nuns, relates in her autobiography how the habit she and her sisters wear in honour of the Immaculate Conception was revealed to her in a
Vision
Gabriel - Gabriel is sent to explain to Daniel the meaning of the
Vision of the ram and the he-goat; in
Daniel 9:21 ff
Eli - And though he was admonished of this evil conduct by the child Samuel, speaking to him in a
Vision from the Lord, yet we find no firmness to reform
Allegory, - (Addison's
Vision of Mirza and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress are among the best allegories in all literature
Seeing - To see, in Scripture, is often used to express the sense of
Vision, knowledge of spiritual things, and even the supernatural knowledge of hidden things, of prophecy, of
Visions, of ecstacies. Whence it is that formerly those were called seers who afterward were termed nabi, or prophets; and that prophecies were called
Visions
Zacharias - He is known to us by his pious and blameless life; his
Vision of Gabriel in the temple, promising him a son in his old age; his hesitancy in believing, for which he was visited by a temporary dumbness; his miraculous restoration at the circumcision of his son; and his noble and prophetic song of praise,
Luke 1:52 ; 67-79
Scapular of the Immaculate Conception - Blessed Ursula Benicasa, foundress of the Order of Theatine Nuns, relates in her autobiography how the habit she and her sisters wear in honour of the Immaculate Conception was revealed to her in a
Vision
Cross - But after the celebrated
Vision of Constantine, he ordered his friends to make a cross of gold and gems, such as he had seen, and "the towering eagles resigned the flags unto the cross," and "the tree of cursing and shame" "sat upon the sceptres and was engraved and signed on the foreheads of kings
Dreams - Paul in (
1 Corinthians 14:15 ) dreams, in which the understanding is asleep, are placed below the
Visions of prophecy, in which the understanding plays its part. Under the Christian dispensation, while we read frequently of trances and
Vision, dreams are never referred to as vehicles of divine revelation
Star - ...
Turning to the use of the word ‘star’ in the Book of Revelation, we find in the
Vision of the Son of Man that ‘he had in his right hand seven stars’ (
Revelation 1:16) and that ‘the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches’ (
Revelation 1:20). ...
Lastly, the Woman in the
Vision (
Revelation 12:1) ‘has a crown of twelve stars’ (see article Sun)
Insight - The spiritual
Vision is to Him so clear that it is unnecessary to designate the faculty or its object by another term. Jesus sees God as no man can see Him, for human
Vision of God can only be through the light with which He illumines the soul (
John 1:18). Because of this unique relation with the ultimate spiritual Reality, His insight into the nature of God is a clear and open
Vision. With Him the fact is merely the symbol, and the symbol has become so luminous that His
Vision is always of the spiritual processes of which it is an indication. It was the spirit that was always before His
Vision, and therefore His knowledge of the human heart was instinctive and unerring. Jesus is dwelling in eternity and contemplating the processes of the spiritual world, and He conveys to the receptive soul by the only medium at His command the impression He Himself receives from His direct
Vision of the truth He is envisaging. To the soul that has the faculty of
Vision the words are luminous, and reveal God’s secrets. The revelation granted to the prophets in OT times was their insight into the meaning of God’s ways, their
Vision of the spiritual processes through which the higher life of humanity is evolved. The Bible is not a revelation, but a record of a series of revelations that were given to men of insight, men who possessed the faculty of
Vision. It is the Holy Spirit that quickens the soul and conveys the gift of
Vision to which alone Divine Truth can be revealed. The
Visions it sees are not always of reality, for the medium through which it looks is often obscured by earthly passions and prejudices. Upton; James, Varieties of Religious Experience; Ewald, Revelation, its Nature and its Record; Oman,
Vision and Authority; W
Ancient of Days - In the
Vision of the Great Assizes He is depicted as a very old and majestic figure, with white hair and white raimeot, seated on a fiery throne, and having the books of the records of man opened before Him
Coal - In two cases, however, the ‘live coal’ of Isaiah’s
Vision (
Isaiah 6:6 ) and the ‘coals’ on which was ‘a cake haken’ for Elijah (
1 Kings 19:6 ), the Heb
Sun - The appearance of the face of Christ at the Transfiguration (
Matthew 17:2) and in the opening
Vision of the Apocalypse (
Revelation 1:16) is compared to the brightness of the sun
Ulai - A river near Shushan, by the banks of which Daniel saw the
Vision of the ram and the he goat (
Daniel 8:2;
Daniel 8:16). The ancient Eulaeus or Choaspes, for these are two divisions of one river, bifurcating at Paipul, 20 miles N
Aspect - ) The act of looking;
Vision; gaze; glance
Transfiguration - A word indicating the change which took place in the appearance of Jesus in the
Vision on the holy mount
Dream - The prophetic dream must be distinguished from the prophetic
Vision
Jeshurun - He derives the word from שור , which signifies go see, behold, or discover; from whence, in the future tense, plural, comes ישרו , which, with the addition of nun paragogicum, makes Jeshurun; that is, "the people who had the
Vision of God
Cherub - The cherubs, in Ezekiels
Vision, had each four heads or faces, the hands of a man and wings
Throne -
Hebrews 1:8 ;
Revelation 3:21 (1st part); 22:3; His seat of authority in the Millennium,
Matthew 19:28 (1st part); (c) by metonymy for angelic powers,
Colossians 1:16 ; (d) of the Apostles in millennial authority,
Matthew 19:28 (2nd part);
Luke 22:30 ; (e) of the elders in the heavenly
Vision,
Revelation 4:4 (2nd and 3rd parts), RV, "thrones" (AV, "seats"); so
Revelation 11:16 ; (f) of David,
Luke 1:32 ;
Acts 2:30 ; (g) of Satan,
Revelation 2:13 , RV, "throne" (AV, "seat"); (h) of "the beast," the final and federal head of the revived Roman Empire,
Revelation 13:2 ; 16:10
Resurrection of Body - " Another passage of Scripture is that describing the
Vision of Ezechiel (Ezechiel 1). " Though this
Vision symbolizes the restoration of Israel, it would have been unintelligible to the Jews had they not been familiar with belief in a resurrection of the dead
Advent: Looking For the - Often when, in the morning, the child of God awakes, weary and encumbered with the flesh, perhaps from troubled dreams, perhaps with troubled thoughts, his Father's secret comes presently across him, he looks up, if not out, to feel, if not to see, the glories of that last morning when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall arise indestructible; no weary limbs to bear the spirit down; no feverish dreams to haunt the
Vision; no dark forecasting of the day's events, or returning memory of the griefs of yesterday
Ephah - The
Vision of
Zechariah 5:7 of a woman sitting in an ephah basket contains the imaginative images of
Visions, for any ephah would be far too small for a woman to sit in
Jabin - " Lest Joshua should be affrighted at this formidable array, Jehovah in
Vision promised "I will deliver them up all slain before Israel"; I am infinitely more than a match for them, and I am on thy side
Seventy Years - Prophetic and apocalyptic figure pointing to time of Israel's Exile in Babylon and to the end of tribulation in Daniel's
Vision
Horse - In the early part of Zechariah the prophet had
Visions of horses of different colours, they are called spirits of the heavens, and as such they acted in the four great Gentile empires described by Daniel. When these are further spoken of, the red horses are not named, for the Chaldean empire had passed away when Zechariah saw the
Vision
Revelation, Book of - ) In apocalyptic literature God gives revelations to people by means of strange
Visions explained by angels. The
Visions often feature fearsome beasts and mysterious numbers, and are usually concerned with great conflicts out of which God and his people triumph (see APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE). ...
Contents of the book...
John begins by greeting the seven churches to whom the book is sent (1:1-8), then describes his
Vision of the risen and exalted Christ, who is Lord of all the churches (1:9-20). John then has two
Visions. As the scroll is unrolled, each section reveals a
Vision relating to some aspect of suffering and judgment. There is an interval before the breaking of the final seal, when further
Visions reassure the faithful. ...
In the second series of judgments, each of the seven
Visions is announced by the blowing of a trumpet. Again there is an interval before the final
Vision, when further
Visions reassure the faithful of victory. ...
Before the third series of judgments, John receives a number of
Visions to show the conflict and ultimate triumph that God’s people can expect. One
Vision is of a dragon that tries to destroy a woman and her child (12:1-17); another is of a beast that rises out of the sea to fight against God and his people (13:1-10); and a third is of a beast that rises out of the earth in support of the previous beast (13:11-18). ...
Finally, John has a
Vision of a new heaven and a new earth, where God dwells with his people in a new order of existence (21:1-22:5)
Daniel, Prophet - Under the ruler called Darius the Mede in our present text, he received the
Vision of "the seventy weeks," announcing the death of the Messias. The first part of his prophecies (2,5, to 7), written in Aramaic, presents those which regard the world power in relation to God's people; particularly the dream of the great statue and the
Vision of the four beasts
Son of Man - ...
A heavenly figure...
The title ‘son of man’ comes from a
Vision recorded in the Old Testament book of Daniel. In this
Vision a person like a son of man came into the heavenly presence of God and received from him a universal and everlasting kingdom (
Daniel 7:13-14). ...
The
Vision in Daniel shows, however, that the Son of man shares the kingdom with his people (
Daniel 7:14;
Daniel 7:27)
Paradise - 3 does not introduce a different
Vision), beyond the heavens of the natural creation (see
Hebrews 4:14 , RV , with reference to the Ascension)
Abaddon - In the Book of Revelation (9:1-11), when John sees his
Vision of the fifth trumpet blowing, a vast horde of demonic horsemen is seen arising from the newly opened abyss
Torment (2) - Christ read off to them in vivid words what their
Vision was too dull to see,—the penalties attached to their sin by the law that ‘Justice founded and eternal Love
God, Presence of - The Beatific
Vision is the final and perfect degree of the presence of God in the creature and of the creature's consciousness of this
Ananias - A ‘devout man according to the law’ at Damascus, a disciple who instructed and baptized Saul of Tarsus after his conversion, restoring to him his sight by imposition of hands; he had been warned by the Lord in a
Vision (
Acts 9:10 ff;
Acts 22:12 ff
Armenians - They believe that the souls of the righteous shall not be admitted to the beatific
Vision till after the resurrection, notwithstanding which they pray to departed saints, adore their pictures, and burn lamps before them
Dreams - In a dream, in a
Vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed: then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. It is to be remarked that in the last days when God pours out His Spirit on all flesh the sons and daughters will prophesy, and the young men shall see
Visions, and the old men shall dream dreams
Behold, Beheld - 1: ὁράω (Strong's #3708 — Verb — horao — hor-ah'-o ) with its aorist form eidon, "to see" (in a few places the AV uses the verb "to behold"), is said (a) of bodily
Vision, e. ...
2: βλέπω (Strong's #991 — Verb — blepo — blep'-o ) is also used of (a) bodily and (b) mental
Vision, (a) "to perceive," e. It signifies a more earnest contemplation than the ordinary verbs for "to see," "a careful and deliberate
Vision which interprets
Joppa - At Joppa, in the house of Simon the tanner, "by the sea-side," Peter resided "many days," and here, "on the house-top," he had his "vision of tolerance" (
Acts 9:36-43 )
Micaiah - ...
Then he relates that he had seen, probably in a
Vision, Jehovah sitting on His throne, and asking who would persuade Ahab to go to Ramoth-gilead and fall there
Revelation, Book of - The one gives us in a magnificent
Vision, the other in a great historic drama, the supreme conflict between good and evil and its issue
Michael - ...
Michael is mentioned also in the
Visions of the book of Revelation. The
Vision reassures the persecuted people of God that the final victory will be theirs (
Revelation 12:7-9)
Color - ) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in
Vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc
Gomer - foreigners, though originally they occupied the whole of the British isles but were driven back by succeeding invaders to the northwestern extremities, which their two divisions, the Gael of Ireland and Scotland and the Cymry of Wales, occupy), and gave their name to Cumber-land. Hosea in
Vision (not in external act, which would be revolting to purity)takes by God's command Gomer to wife, though a woman "of whoredoms"; symbolically teaching that out of this world, which whorishly has departed from the Lord, God takes a church to be sanctified by communion with Himself in Christ, as Gomer was sanctified by communion with the prophet, (
1 Corinthians 7:14)
Lass -
1 Corinthians 13:12 (b) Here we may learn the lack of
Vision and inability to understand spiritual verities as one should
Lamb - In John's
Vision of heaven the Lord Jesus is seen as a Lamb 'which had been slain,' to whom universal adoration is given
Hosea - ...
DIVISIONS. On his marriage to Gomer, Henderson thinks that there is no hint of its being in
Vision, and that she fell into lewdness after her union with Hosea, thus fitly symbolizing Israel who lapsed into spiritual whoredom after the marriage contract with God on Sinai. ) But an act revolting to a pure mind would hardly be ordained by God save in
Vision, which serves all the purposes of a vivid and as it were acted prophecy. Hosea's union in
Vision with such an one in spite of his natural repugnance would vividly impress the people with God's amazing love in uniting Himself to so polluted a nation. The truth expressed by prophetic act in
Vision was Israel's idolatry (spiritual impurity, "a wife of whoredoms") before her call in Egypt and in Ur of the Chaldees (
Joshua 24:14) as well as after it
Ezekiel, Theology of - Standing by the Kebar River Ezekiel suddenly sees the
Vision of the chariot of Yahweh (1:2-28). ...
While scholars have debated the details of the
Vision, it seems beyond question that it portrays God as the sovereign over the whole earth. ...
Ezekiel's
Vision showed them that it was not that Yahweh was too small, but that he was too great. The opening
Vision is only the first of many strange messages in Ezekiel. ...
More than that, Ezekiel in a
Vision ate a scroll that was the word of God (2:9-3:11). He tells us that in the sixth month of the sixth year (about five years before the destruction of Jerusalem), he was taken to the temple in a
Vision. He begins with the famous
Vision of the valley of dry bones (vv. Israel, the
Vision implies, is a dead nation. That being the case, it is not surprising that Ezekiel the priest should crown his promise of restoration with a
Vision of a new temple (chaps. The question that remains for us is whether we should take this prophecy as a portrait of a literal, future temple, or read it as an idealized, symbolic
Vision. Similarly, the portrayal of the division of the land among the twelve tribes (
Ezekiel 47:13-48:35 ) is highly idealized and resists any attempt to set down literal borders for the tribes (although this does not keep some imaginative interpreters from trying). ...
The
Vision is a prophet-priest's portrayal of the glories of the kingdom of God
Valley - The "valley of
Vision" (
Isaiah 22:1 ) is usually regarded as denoting Jerusalem, which "may be so called," says Barnes (Com
Ananias - In response to a
Vision he received from the Lord, this Ananias visited Saul (Paul) three days after Saul had his Damascus road experience
Obadiah - The author of the
Vision of Obadiah: see following article
Troas - Here on his second missionary tour Paul saw the
Vision of the man of Macedon praying, "come over and help us" (
Acts 16:8-12)
Temptation of Christ - of Matthew, has been much the subject of infidel ridicule, and some ingenious writers, to avoid the difficulties of a literal interpretation, have reduced the whole to
Vision and allegory
Yale, Valley - gay, ge, ravine, narrow glen: applied to Charashim, Hamon-Gog, Hinnom, Son of Hinnom, Jiphthah-el, Zeboim, and Zephathah; and used symbolically for 'Valley of the Mountains' (
Zechariah 14:5 ); 'of the passengers' (
Ezekiel 39:11 ); 'of salt' (
2 Samuel 8:13 ;
2 Kings 14:7 ;
1 Chronicles 18:12 ;
2 Chronicles 25:11 ; Psalm 60 title ); 'of craftsmen' (
Nehemiah 11:35 ); 'of slaughter' (
Jeremiah 7:32 ;
Jeremiah 19:6 ); 'of
Vision' (
Isaiah 22:1,5 ); 'of the shadow of death
Jealousy, - ...
THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY, which provoketh to jealousy, was seen in a
Vision by the prophet, set up in the temple (
Ezekiel 8:3-5 ), as when Manasseh set up the graven image in the house of Jehovah,
2 Kings 11:7 ; though doubtless by the scope of the prophecy reference is made to secret idolatry in connection with the service of the temple, and to secret idols in the hearts of those who were professedly the worshippers of God: such would assuredly provoke the jealousy of Jehovah
Eye - ) The reference is to the restoring of spiritual
Vision
Eclectics - The moral doctrine of the Alexandrian school was as follows:— The mind of man, originally a portion of the Divine Being, having fallen into a state of darkness and defilement, by its union with the body, is to be gradually emancipated from the chains of matter, and rise by contemplation to the knowledge and
Vision of God
Philippi - 52, having been led hither from Troas by a heavenly
Vision
Hell - The misery of hell will consist in the privation of the
Vision and love of God, exclusion from every source of happiness, perpetual sin, remorse of conscience in view of the past, malevolent passions, the sense of the just anger of God, and all other sufferings of body and soul which in the nature of things are the natural results of sin, or which the law of God requires as penal inflictions
ma'ry Magdalene - Mary Magdalene had been to the tomb and had found it empty, and had seen the "vision of angels
Rapture Ecstasy - Peter’s
Vision of the vessel full of unclean beasts (
Acts 10:10, Acts 11:5). John in his apocalyptic
Vision of the Lord of Churches was in the Spirit, and he saw the Living One in all His glory, when he ‘fell at his feet as one dead’ (
Revelation 1:17)
Book With the Seven Seals - If the
Vision of ch. ...
The
Visions connected with the opening of the several seals are of less central interest, belonging rather to the general furniture of apocalyptic. At the seventh
Vision the scheme, instead of moving directly to its completion, branches out into new ramifications
Alexander the Great - The high priest Jaddua, being warned of God in a
Vision, hung the city with garlands and went forth in his robes with the other priests and the people in white to meet the king. In reply to an astonished courtier, Alexander said he did not worship the priest, but the name on his frontlet, and explained that he had seen in a
Vision a figure resembling this very priest, who told him to conquer Persia
See, Seeing - A — 1: βλέπω (Strong's #991 — Verb — blepo — blep'-o ) "to have sight," is used of bodily
Vision, e. ...
A — 2: ὁράω (Strong's #3708 — Verb — horao — hor-ah'-o ) with the form eidon, serving for its aorist tense, and opsomai, for its future tense (Middle Voice), denotes "to see," of bodily
Vision, e. When the physical side recedes, horao denotes perception in general (as resulting principally from
Vision)
Flavius Valerius Constantinus - Assured by a
Vision that he would triumph in the sign of Christ, he marched on Rome and completely defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, October 28, 312
Morality - Moreover, on account of original sin, man's
Vision of the moral law has become obscured, and the control of his passions has been lost, and hence without Divine aid he cannot long observe the moral law
Name - It may embody the spiritual
Vision of parents for their child's future
Likeness - The first truth forms the basis for the prohibition of making any graven images (
Exodus 20:4 ;
Deuteronomy 4:16-18 ; see Idols) and perhaps explains Ezekiel's reluctance to speak of elements in his
Vision in concrete terms (
Ezekiel 1:5 ,
Ezekiel 1:5,1:10 ,
Ezekiel 1:10,1:16 ,
Ezekiel 1:16,1:22 ,
Ezekiel 1:22,1:26 ,
Ezekiel 1:26,1:28 )
Open -
Numbers 24:3 (a) This word represents an illuminated
Vision wherein the one who was blind to the things of GOD, and the Word of GOD, has been touched by the Spirit of GOD so that he now sees things as GOD sees them, and evaluates things according to the mind of GOD
Great, Constantine the - Assured by a
Vision that he would triumph in the sign of Christ, he marched on Rome and completely defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, October 28, 312
Brass -
Daniel 10:6), is descriptively applied to the feet of Christ as He appeared in the
Vision of St
Eight - ...
re8 - gives a new
Vision of the ministry of angels
Isaiah - And the tradition concerning this event is, that it was brought upon him by the event of his publishing his
Vision, (
Isaiah 6:1-13) in which he saith, "he saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up
Precious - 3:1: “And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open
Vision
Blindness - Many physical causes in those countries unite to injure the organs of
Vision
Obadiah - I do not presume to say as much, but I humbly would ask, whether the close of his man's
Vision hath not respect to the latter day glory, in a blessed event yet to be fulfilled
Joppa - , had his
Vision teaching that the middle wall separating Jew and Gentile is broken down, and that the gospel is for all nations (Acts 10)
Salvius, Bishop of Alby - The account of this Dantesque
Vision, which Gregory calls God to witness he heard from the bishop's own lips, is interesting (Hist
Obadiah, Book of - The title “The
Vision of Obadiah” turns attention to the divine author, “vision” being a technical term for a prophetic revelation received from God
Foolishness - That wisdom consists in greater singleness of
Vision both as regards ends and means. The inference is left as to the wavering
Vision, both of end and of means, on the part of the children of light
Daniel the Prophet - God also gave them knowledge and skill in learning, and to Daniel He gave understanding in all
Visions and dreams. The magic and astrology of Chaldea was not equal to it, and Daniel and his companions were in danger of being destroyed with all the wise men; but they turned to the God of heaven and prayed to Him, and the dream was revealed to Daniel in a night
Vision. It was the
Vision of the Great Image
Eli - ...
Not only had Eli, with all his envy, a very real and a very deep love for little Samuel; but along with that, and kept alive by that, he had a real, a living, and a deep faith in God, and in God's voices and
Visions and answers to men. There had been no 'open
Vision' for many a day in Israel. If his own sins and his sons' sins had shut silent the divine
Vision, then Eli was all the more prepared to believe that the divine
Vision would hereafter speak to better men than he had been. And when the divine
Vision did begin to break its long silence, and to speak again,-for Eli to accept that
Vision, even when it came in the shape of a sentence of capital punishment on himself and on his house,-well, if ever faith had her perfect work in an open mind, it was surely in castaway Eli's open mind. There has been nothing to call an open
Vision. We have sinned away the open
Vision. But God's mercies always come mingled up with God's judgments, and if you have Eli's loving heart for the rising generation of God's ministers; and if with that you have a still living, if hitherto a too-barren faith in the ever-living God; in alleviation of your punishment, and in reward of your faith and your love, He will send the beginning of the returning
Vision before the end of your lost life. And even if that
Vision comes to condemn your whole life, and to pass sentence on you, and on your evil house; yet, even so, better that than to live and die in the long absence and the total silence of an angry God. Let us believe and be sure that the coming generation will see
Visions and hear voices that we have not been counted worthy to see or to hear, because of our great unfaithfulness and unfruitfulness, and because of our great blindness and disobedience
Hermas Shepherd of - It has been compared in the latter respect with Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, with Dante’s Divina Commedia, and with the
Visions of such mystics as St. From the first
Vision, with its revelation of the sinfulness of sins of thought, and of neglect of responsibility for others, to the last Parable, where the greatness of the Shepherd, the supernatural Being ‘to whom alone in the whole world hath authority over repentance been assigned’ (Sim. -The book is divided up into five
Visions, twelve Mandates or Commandments, and ten Similitudes or Parables. The
Visions form the introduction to the rest, the Shepherd not appearing until the last of these. ...
(1)
Visions. -In the first
Vision Hermas tells now, while journeying to Cumae, he saw in the opened heavens Rhoda, his former owner, whom he had recently met again, and whom he had begun to esteem as a sister. ’...
The second
Vision takes place a year later, and in the same locality. ...
The main part of the third
Vision is the revelation by the lady of the Church under the image of a tower being built by angels upon the waters of baptism. Hermas is next commissioned to rebuke the self-indulgence of the well-to-do and the ignorance and divisions of the rulers of the Church. He inquires why the lady was aged and weak in the first
Vision, more youthful and joyous in the second, and still more so in the third, and learns that these appearances were the reflexion of his own changing spiritual state. ...
The fourth
Vision occurs twenty days later, on the Campanian Way. The next three Mandates expand the provisions of the first-faith, fear, and temperance. The ninth Parable is an amplification of the third
Vision. 2) and even to rebuke for their divisions and their ignorance (iii. In view of the Roman character of the Shepherd, it is interesting to note that the tower which represents the Church is represented as founded, not on Peter, but, in the third
Vision, upon the waters of baptism, and, in the ninth Parable, upon the rock of the Son of God. In the fifth
Vision there is an apparent reference to the belief in guardian angels. *
Christ, Humanity of - His human intellect did not possess infinite knowledge which belonged only to His Divine intellect, but it possessed in the highest degree the beatific Vision, infused knowledge, and acquired knowledge
Face - ...
2: ὄψις (Strong's #3799 — Noun Feminine — opsis — op'-sis ) is primarily "the act of seeing;" then, (a) "the face;" of the body of Lazarus,
John 11:44 ; of the "countenance" of Christ in a
Vision,
Revelation 1:16 ; (b) the "outward appearance" of a person or thing,
John 7:24
Simon - Peter on one occasion stayed in Simon’s house, and while there he had a
Vision that prepared him to visit Cornelius and other Gentiles in Caesarea (
Acts 9:43;
Acts 10:1-23)
Immanuel - He has a
Vision of the Virgin "conceiving and bringing forth a son"; he sees Him growing up in the midst of the poverty brought on by Achaz's wicked course, but he does not say that He will be born in the near future
Humanity of Christ - His human intellect did not possess infinite knowledge which belonged only to His Divine intellect, but it possessed in the highest degree the beatific
Vision, infused knowledge, and acquired knowledge
Peter, Second Epistle of - This
Vision made more sure the word of prophecy to which saints did well in taking heed, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawned, and the day-star arose in their hearts
Angel - Those who remained faithful were rewarded with eternal happiness in the
Vision of God; and the term "angel" used without modification is generally applied only to these
Baptism - Without the Sacrament of Baptism or martyrdom it is commonly taught that infants cannot attain to the enjoyment of the Beatific
Vision
Gather - After he had seen the
Vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them
Emmanuel Title - He has a
Vision of the Virgin "conceiving and bringing forth a son"; he sees Him growing up in the midst of the poverty brought on by Achaz's wicked course, but he does not say that He will be born in the near future
Spirit (of the Dead), Necromancer - But in this particular incident, it seems that God rebuked Saul’s apostasy, either through a revived Samuel or through a
Vision of Samuel
Face - The Apostle, speaking of the difference between our knowledge of God here and in heaven, says, "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face,"
1 Corinthians 13:12 ; by which he shows the vast difference between our seeing or knowing God and divine things by an imperfect revelation to faith, and by direct
Vision
Macedonia - 55, Paul having been summoned to labor there by a supernatural
Vision,
Acts 16:9 20:1
Soul - Scripture informs us that the human soul will be judged after death, will be consigned to heaven or to hell, and on the Day of General Judgment renited with its body, the composite thenceforth to enjoy the Beatific
Vision or to suffer the torments of the damned, for eternity
Dan'Iel - 534) he saw his last recorded
Vision, on the banks of the Tigris
Obadi'ah - The book of Obadiah is a sustained denunciation of the Edomites, melting into a
Vision of the future glories of Zion when the arm of the Lord should have wrought her deliverance and have repaid double upon her enemies
Heed - ...
2: ὁράω (Strong's #3708 — Verb — horao — hor-ah'-o ) "to see," usually expressing the sense of
Vision, is rendered "take heed" in
Matthew 16:6 ; 18:10 , AV (RV, "see");
Mark 8:15 ;
Luke 12:15 ;
Acts 22:26 (AV only)
Zechariah, the Book of - " Like Ezekiel and Daniel, Zechariah delights in symbols, allegories, and
Visions of angels ministering before Jehovah and executing His commands on earth. ) Symbolical (
Zechariah 11:15-17 to chapter 6), nine
Visions in one night. ...
In the second part, the interpretation of the
Visions is given by the angel who knows Jehovah's will, intercedes with Jehovah for Israel, and by whom Jehovah speaks (
Zechariah 1:9), "the angel that talked with me," or "in me"; compare
1 Peter 1:11, "the Spirit of Christ which was in the prophets. ...
The first
Vision represents Jehovah' s messengers announcing that after walking to and fro through the earth they found it at rest (in contrast to and counterworking Satan who "walks to and fro upon the earth" to hurt the saints,
Job 1:7); this secure rest of the pagan earth is the interceding Angel's plea for the desolate temple and Judah, and elicits Jehovah's great jealousy for Zion, so that He returns to her with mercies and with judgments on the pagan oppressor (
Haggai 2:20-23). ...
The second
Vision states how Jehovah will repair Jerusalem's breaches namely, as the four (the four cardinal points of the horizon marking worldwide extension) great world powers, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, scattered Judah and Israel, so four "destroying artificers" shall fray (strike terror into) and cast out the horns of the Gentiles which lifted up their horn over Judah (
Psalms 75:4-5;
Ezekiel 34:21;
Luke 21:24). The third
Vision is the man with line measuring Jerusalem; Messiah, its coming Restorer (
Ezekiel 40:3;
Ezekiel 41:42). ...
The next two (fourth and fifth)
Visions (Zechariah 3-4) show Joshua the high priest's (representing Jerusalem) trial and vindication against Satan, being justified by Jehovah through Messiah the Righteous Branch, though unclean in himself (compare
Psalms 109:6;
Psalms 109:31;
Luke 1:11;
Judges 1:9;
Judges 1:23;
Romans 8:33-34;
Isaiah 64:6;
Isaiah 61:10;
Isaiah 66:21;
Revelation 19:8;
Ezra 5:1-2). ...
The fifth
Vision (
Zechariah 4:1-9), the candlestick or chandelier with seven lights, fed by seven tubes apiece, borrowed from the tabernacle (
Exodus 25:31, etc. "...
The sixth
Vision (
Zechariah 5:1-11) is the curse upon a flying roll, recorded against sin, over Judaea primarily and ultimately the whole earth; it shall extirpate the fraudulent and perjurers; compare in Zechariah's time
Nehemiah 13:10;
Malachi 3:5;
Malachi 3:8. ...
Seventh
Vision. ...
Eighth
Vision. ...
Ninth
Vision
Knowledge - Perhaps this attitude may have been accentuated for the Apostle by the fact that in his own experience so much of his knowledge should have come directly in
Visions, as in the
Vision of Jesus, the Exalted Christ (
Acts 9:3), in the
Vision of the man of Macedonia (
Acts 16:10), and in the
Vision of the third heaven (
2 Corinthians 12:1). John declares that all men have the organ of spiritual
Vision by which God, who is light, is revealed to them. Many refuse to exercise this organ, and prefer to dwell in darkness, and thus lose the power of knowing, while spiritual
Vision becomes clearer and stronger by a purer and better moral life. Paul conceives of the glory of God as having been long concealed by the clouds of earth, but at last having shone forth in undimmed splendour; and those who believe that Jesus is the Lord receive a
Vision of God’s glory that illuminates all life, history, and experience
Apocalyptic - Apocalyptic writings are marked by distinctive literary features, particularly prediction of future events and accounts of
Visionary experiences or journeys to heaven, often involving vivid symbolism. ...
Within Judaism apocalyptic faded out, but an apocalyptic
Visionary tradition has remained alive within Christianity ever since. Daniel usually receives
Visionary dreams in his sleep (2:19; 7:1), but he also has day-time
Visions (10:4-5) and is able to pass on words from God like a traditional prophet (5:25-28). ...
One interesting difference between Revelation and all other apocalypses is the extent to which it leaves
Visions unexplained. The usual pattern, both in Daniel and in the extrabiblical apocalypses, is that a
Vision is followed by an explanation of the symbolism (
Daniel 7:15-27 ;
Zechariah 1:7-21 ), rather like the instances in which a parable of Jesus is followed by an interpretation (
Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 ;
Mark 4:1-20 ). In most cases the
Visions are just related, so that the reader is challenged to provide the interpretation, as in the case of the majority of Jesus' parables. This appears vividly in the compelling
Vision of uNIVersal worship in Revelation 5 , where John sees (and hears) the worship spreading from the throne in concentric circles outward, from the living creatures to the twenty-four elders, then to the myriads of angels (v. Similarly, but by very different means, the seals
Visions in Revelation 6 teach that the decree of God underlies all the chaotic horrors of human experience, including imperial conquest (6:2), war (6:3), violent and premature death (6:7), and the supreme (inexplicable?) injustice of being murdered for loyalty to the Creator (6:9-11). But because the
Vision has been given in which the power of the beast has already been destroyed, God's people can be assured that they will be kept safe under its rule. ...
In Revelation the same idea is conveyed immediately by the
Vision of the risen Christ patrolling among the lampstands that represent the seven churches (1:20), and by his direct messages of warning and encouragement. The
Vision that energizes apocalyptic is the day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ" (
Revelation 11:15 )
Bethel - Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a
Vision of the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached unto heaven (28:10,19); and on his return he again visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and there he "built an altar, and called the place El-beth-el" (q
Chariot - This
Vision would be to Elisha a source of strength and encouragement, for now he could say, "They that be with us are more than they that be with them
Cloud - In the ‘Cloud
Vision’ of Apoc
Army - John's
Vision of the end time included the armies of heaven following the King of kings to victory over the beast and the false prophet (
Revelation 19:11-21 )
Isaiah (2) - But it is characteristic of prophetic
Vision to look into the far future as if it were present; and it makes not much difference, for the divine character of the prophecy whether it was uttered 500 or 700 years before its fulfilment
Burn, Burning - ...
A — 4: πυρόω (Strong's #4448 — Verb — puroomai — poo-ro'-o ) from pur, "fire, to glow with heat," is said of the feet of the Lord, in the
Vision in
Revelation 1:15 ; it is translated "fiery" in
Ephesians 6:16 (of the darts of the evil one); used metaphorically of the emotions, in
1 Corinthians 7:9 ;
2 Corinthians 11:29 ; elsewhere literally, of the heavens,
2 Peter 3:12 ; of gold,
Revelation 3:18 (RV, "refined")
Daniel -
Daniel 6:28, compare;
Daniel 1:21, though he does not appear to have remained at Babylon, and in "the third year of Cyrus" he saw his last recorded
Vision, on the banks of the Tigris
Joppa - Here, too, Peter raised Dorcas from the dead; and in the house of Simon the tanner, by the seaside, was taught by a heavenly
Vision that salvation was for Gentiles as well as Jews,
Acts 9:1-11:30
Dan - In the division of the promised land Dan was the last of the tribes to receive his portion, which was the smallest of the twelve. Lastly, Dan is omitted from the list of those who were sealed by the angel in the
Vision of St
Joshua the Son of Jehozadak - ...
Dealing with sin...
In a
Vision that the prophet Zechariah saw, Joshua the high priest was standing before God in dirty garments
King, Christ as - The Old Testament hope for the future included a
Vision of a new king like David, called the anointed one, or the Messiah in Hebrew (
2 Samuel 7:16 ). Daniel contains a
Vision of one to whom was given dominion, glory, and kingdom, one whom all peoples, nations, and languages would serve
Zechariah, Book of - The main body of the book (
Zechariah 1:7 to
Zechariah 6:15 ) is made up of a series of eight
Visions and a symbolic action, after the manner of Ezekiel. The second
Vision (
Zechariah 1:18-21 ) is of four horns the nations which have scattered the holy people and four smiths, who are to cast them down. The
Vision that follows (ch. The prominent place given in these
Visions to priest and king, as essential to the national life, is most significant. The seventh
Vision (
Jeremiah 5:6-11 ) follows naturally upon the preceding. The last
Vision (
Jeremiah 6:1-8 ) represents four chariots going forth upon the earth; of these the one that goes to the north executes the wrath of Jehovah upon those who have oppressed His people. The
Visions opened with the horsemen that reported the earth as quiet; they close with the chariots that keep the world in subjection to Jehovah. The
Visions centre in the hope of a glorious future for Jerusalem, with its Temple restored, its enemies stilled, its exiles returned, its sin forgiven, its wickedness removed, and with Jehovah’s spirit flowing in through priest and prince of Davidic line. The
Visions lead on to the symbolic crowning of the promised ruler. In the
Visions, the machinery of apocalypse, Introduced by Ezekiel, has been somewhat developed in its feature of angelic intermediaries. ...
The second main division of chs. The closing verses of the first section in this division (13:1 6) indicate a time when prophecy is utterly degraded idols, prophets, unclean spirit are evils to be removed. 14 gives another apocalyptic
Vision of the siege of Jerusalem
Angel - ...
In Daniel, two angels who interpreted
Visions were unnamed (7:16; 10:5), but other
Visions were explained to Daniel by the angel Gabriel, who was instructed by a "man's voice" to undertake this task (8:15-16). ...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's
Vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). According to the
Vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally. Uriel explained to Enoch many of his
Visions (
1Enoch 21:5-10; 27:2-4), interpreted Ezra's
Vision of the celestial Jerusalem (
2 Esdras 10:28-57 ), and explained the fate of the fallen angels who supposedly married human women (
1Enoch 19:1-9; cf. On three occasions an angel visited Joseph in a
Vision concerning Jesus (
Matthew 1:20 ; 2:13,19 ). Again, this celestial being performed a service of reassurance and love for Mary and Mary of Magdala, who subsequently reported seeing "a
Vision of angels" (
Luke 24:23 )
Mary of Cleophas - She, with the women which came with Jesus from Galilee, "prepared spices and ointments" on the sabbath eve (
Luke 23:55-56), and when the sabbath was past "came to see the sepulchre" (
Matthew 28:1) and "to anoint Him" with the "sweet spices they had bought" (
Mark 16:1), and then "saw the
Vision of angels which said He was alive" (
Luke 24:23)
Wilderness - Jerusalem is the "valley of
Vision," rich in spiritual husbandry; whereas Babylon, the rival centre of influence, is spiritually barren and as restless as the sea (
comp 57:20)
Renew, Renewing - , the adjustment of the moral and spiritual
Vision and thinking to the mind of God, which is designed to have a transforming effect upon the life; in
Titus 3:5 , where "the renewing of the Holy Spirit" is not a fresh bestowment of the Spirit, but a revival of His power, developing the Christian life; this passage stresses the continual operation of the indwelling Spirit of God; the Romans passage stresses the willing response on the part of the believer
Sea -
Isaiah 57:20 ); (c) symbolically, in the apocalyptic
Vision of "a glassy sea like unto crystal,"
Revelation 4:6 , emblematic of the fixed purity and holiness of all that appertains to the authority and judicial dealings of God; in
Revelation 15:2 , the same, "mingled with fire," and, standing by it (RV) or on it (AV and RV marg
Cherub - In Ezekiel's
Vision (10:1-20) they appear as living creatures supporting the throne of God
Calvary - , Queen Helena, mother of Constantine, had the site revealed to her in a
Vision
Loins - ...
Daniel 10:5 (b) In this
Vision the heavenly messenger had divine strength, power and ability that was pure as the gold, and beautiful in appearance
Well - These may consist of love, joy, peace, rest, comfort, happiness, gladness, zeal,
Vision, confidence and trust
Think - While Peter thought on the
Vision--Acts 10
Hair - Regarding the latter (a) it is used to signify the minutest detail, as that which illustrates the exceeding care and protection bestowed by God upon His children,
Matthew 10:30 ;
Luke 12:7 ; 21:18 ;
Acts 27:34 ; (b) as the Jews swore by the "hair," the Lord used the natural inability to make one "hair" white or black, as one of the reasons for abstinence from oaths,
Matthew 5:36 ; (c) while long "hair" is a glory to a woman (see B), and to wear it loose or dishevelled is a dishonor, yet the woman who wiped Christ's feet with her "hair" (in place of the towel which Simon the Pharisee omitted to provide), despised the shame in her penitent devotion to the Lord (slaves were accustomed to wipe their masters' feet),
Luke 7:38,44 (RV, "hair"); see also
John 11:2 ; 12:3 ; (d) the dazzling whiteness of the head and "hair" of the Son of Man in the
Vision of
Revelation 1:14 is suggestive of the holiness and wisdom of "the Ancient of Days;" (e) the long "hair" of the spirit-beings described as locusts in
Revelation 9:8 is perhaps indicative of their subjection of their satanic master (cp
Ezekiel - Furthermore, the genuine
Visionary experience (through which Ezekiel claimed to receive his knowledge) cannot be dismissed arbitrarily. He has been labeled neurotic, paranoid, psychotic, or schizophrenic because of his unusual behavior (for example, lying on one side for 390 days and on the other for 40 days,
Ezekiel 4:4-6 ; shaving off his hair,
Ezekiel 5:1-4 ; and his many
Visions). The Temple
Vision of Ezekiel 40-48 has several parallels in Revelation 21-22 , with its focus on the Holy City Jerusalem and the river flowing from the throne of God. ...
Few other books in the Old Testament contain such a rich blend of symbolic actions,
Visions, figurative speech, and allegories to communicate God's messages.
Visions form the content of 17 of the 48 chapters (1-3; 8-11;
Ezekiel 37:1-14 ; Ezekiel 40-48 ). ...
Contents of the Book There are four major divisions of the book:...
1. A
Vision of the restored people of God,
Ezekiel 40:1-48:35 ...
God first appeared to Ezekiel in a storm cloud seated on a throne surrounded by cherubim (
Ezekiel 1:1-28 ;
Ezekiel 10:15 ). Ezekiel 8-11 contain an extended
Vision that took Ezekiel to Jerusalem where he saw abominable worship practices in the Temple (
Ezekiel 8:1-18 ). The
Vision of the valley of dry bones dramatically proclaimed the future resurrection of the nation (
Ezekiel 37:1-14 ). ...
The closing
Vision of the restored community announced hope for God's people in the future (
Ezekiel 40:1-48:35 )
Philippi - ...
Paul and Philippi Paul first visited Philippi on his second missionary journey in response to his Macedonian
Vision (
Acts 16:9 )
Amos - The third part (7-9) records five
Visions; the fifth
Vision (9:1-10) prepares the glorious perspective of Messianic blessings (verses 11-15)
Forty Martyrs, the - The sentinel who watched the bath saw in a
Vision angels descend and distribute rewards to all in the pond
Catch - 1: ἁρπάζω (Strong's #726 — Verb — harpazo — har-pad'-zo ) "to snatch or catch away," is said of the act of the Spirit of the Lord in regard to Philip in
Acts 8:39 ; of Paul in being "caught" up to paradise,
2 Corinthians 12:2,4 ; of the Rapture of the saints at the return of the Lord,
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ; of the rapture of the man child in the
Vision of
Revelation 12:5
Consider - 4), "to understand fully, consider closely," is used of not "considering" thoroughly the beam in one's own eye,
Matthew 7:3 ;
Luke 6:41 (AV, "perceivest"); of carefully "considering" the ravens,
Luke 12:24 ; the lilies,
Luke 12:27 ; of Peter's full "consideration" of his
Vision,
Acts 11:6 ; of Abraham's careful "consideration" of his own body, and Sarah's womb, as dead, and yet accepting by faith God's promise,
Romans 4:19 (RV); of "considering" fully the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,
Hebrews 3:1 ; of thoughtfully "considering" one another to provoke unto love and good works,
Hebrews 10:24
Isaiah - In
Isaiah 24:1-35:10 , which would seem to belong to the time of Hezekiah, the prophet appears to look forward in prophetic
Vision to the times of the exile and of the Messiah. But a very obvious and striking division of the book into two parts exists; the first part, including
Isaiah 1:1-39:8 , and the second, the remainder of the book,
Isaiah 40:1-66:24 . Sometimes the prophet beholds the Author of this deliverance in his humiliation and sorrows; and again, the remotest ages of the Messiah's kingdom present themselves to his enraptured
Vision-when man, so long estranged from God, will have again returned to him; when every thing opposed to God shall have been destroyed, and internal and external peace universally prevail; and when all the evil introduced by sin into the world, will be for ever done away
Maria of Jesus - ...
Mystic and
Visionary, she was given to ecstacies and trances. A
Vision of her, known as the "Lady in Blue" was simultaneously reported teaching the native Tiguas and Caddoes in the areas of what are now New Mexico and Texas
Macedonia - The first country in Europe where Paul preached the gospel, in obedience to the
Vision of a man of Macedonia, saying "come over and help us
Trance - (
Genesis 15:12 ) Balaam, as if overcome by the constraining power of a Spirit mightier than his own, "sees the
Vision of God, falling, but with opened eyes. Though different in form, it belongs to the same class of phenomena as the gift of tongues, and is connected with "visions and revelations of the Lord" In some cases, indeed, it is the chosen channel for such revelations
Scorpion - Scorpions are mentioned three times in the apocalyptic
Vision of the Fifth Trumpet or the First Wce (
Revelation 9:3;
Revelation 9:5;
Revelation 9:10), and on each occasion they form part of the description of the locusts themselves or of their mission
Trance - It is stated that Peter fell into a trance, by which is meant that whilst his body was probably in a cataleptic condition his spirit was engaged in beholding a
Vision (ὄραμα,
Acts 10:19;
Acts 11:5). The second stage of trance mentioned by Myers may be said to be reached when
Visions, or ecstasy proper, are experienced. In the
Visions of Ezekiel (
Ezekiel 4:4-8) the bearing of the cords and the days of his boundness are considered by R
Gerizim - "...
The meaning of "Moriah" "what Jehovah has made one see", alluding to "the mount of the
Vision of Jehovah" (
Genesis 22:14), favors the view that the name "Moriah" in
Genesis 22:2 is used by anticipation, and originated in Abraham's words,
Genesis 22:14
Agreda, Maria de - ...
Mystic and
Visionary, she was given to ecstacies and trances. A
Vision of her, known as the "Lady in Blue" was simultaneously reported teaching the native Tiguas and Caddoes in the areas of what are now New Mexico and Texas
Desolation - When Jeremiah and Ezekiel, who most frequently use the words, mention חָרִבָה or שַׁמָה, they always have one thing in their mind—the
Vision of a once peaceful and flourishing place which by fire and sword has been laid waste, and is left uninhabited
House - Thus the faithful Abraham, after that the Lord had revealed himself unto him in
Vision, and said, "Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield, and thine exceeding great reward;" the patriarch felt a boldness to ask of God concerning his household
Parched Ground - ; but on hasting towards it he finds the delightful
Vision recede and at length disappear, and nothing remains but the hot sands
Macedonia - Not only is the suggested detail regarding the Apostle’s movements singularly flat and commonplace, but it is highly probable that the old division into tetrarchies had long ceased to have more than an antiquarian interest. Paul’s entry into Europe was occasioned by the
Vision of ‘a man of Macedonia’ (
Acts 16:9). ) has hazarded the suggestion that this man was no other than the historian of the Acts; in which case the night
Vision would doubtless be preceded and followed by substantial arguments by day
Cherubim - ) But more particularly, in the
Visional prophecy of Ezekiel. ...
If it be objected, that in the
Vision of Isaiah, chap. so again, in the
Vision of John,
Revelation 8:1-13 where in both Scriptures, we find the seraphim, or cherubim, (for they mean one and the same), are represented as worshipping God, and hence it be said, is there not a contradiction in supposing JEHOVAH worshipping JEHOVAH? I answer, certainly there would be, if this were in reality the case
Apocalyptic Literature - The
Vision Form. It is enough that he write as one who has had a
Vision and is describing it. In view of the fact, however, that the Hebrew prophets frequently incorporate
Visions into their writings (Isaiah 6,
Jeremiah 24:1-3, Ezekiel 1:27, Isaiah 24-27), it is scarcely necessary to go outside of Israel to search for its origins. An angel explains the
Vision (47, the Son of Man will overthrow and judge the kings and mighty ones of the ungodly). In a
Vision of six mountains of metal which pass away, the destruction of the heathen world by the Messiah is portrayed. A
Vision of Noah, an account of Leviathan and Behemoth, and various nature-elements which take part in the Flood are then given (60). Enoch narrates to his son Methusaleh two
Visions which he saw before he had taken a wife to himself. The second
Vision (85–90) unfolded before him the whole history of Israel from the creation of man to the end of time. The children of Israel appeared in this
Vision in the forms of the clean animals (bulls, sheep, lambs, and goats). (From this fact this section of the book takes the title of ‘Vision of the Seventy Shepherds’)
Prophet - As the seer beheld the
Visions of God, so the prophet proclaimed the divine truth revealed to him as one of an official order in a more direct way. As to symbolic actions, ninny are only parts of
Visions, not external facts, being impossible or indecent (
Jeremiah 13:1-10;
Jeremiah 25:12-38;
Hosea 1:2-11). ...
Each fresh utterance was by "vision" (
Isaiah 6:1) or by "the word of Jehovah" (
Jeremiah 2:1). The dream and
Vision were lower forms of inspiration than Moses enjoyed, namely, "mouth to mouth, not in dark speeches"; directly, without the intervention of dream,
Vision, or person (compare
Exodus 33:11 with
Joel 2:28;
Daniel 1:17). The prophets did net generally speak in ecstatic unconsciousness, but with self possession, for "the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets" (
1 Corinthians 14:32); but sometimes they did (Genesis 15; Daniel 7; Daniel 8; Daniel 10; Daniel 11; Daniel 12, "the
Visions of Daniel"); "the
Vision of Isaiah" (Isaiah 6); "the
Vision of Ezekiel" (Ezekiel 1); "the
Visions of Zechariah" (Zechariah 1; Zechariah 4; Zechariah 5; Zechariah 6); the
Vision of Peter (Acts 10); of Paul (
Acts 22:17;
Acts 22:2 Corinthians 12); Job (
Jerusalem - The glorious Vision of the exaltation of Zion (Micah 4:1-8 ) and the transformation of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40-48 ) had not yet been fulfilled. This Vision, along with the belief in the kingship of God and the coming of a Davidic messiah, continued to be cherished in the hearts of the faithful. He envisioned the “man of sin” who comes before the Day of the Lord as...
appearing in Jerusalem (1619110855_8 ). ...
Jerusalem figures in the final Vision of Revelation. This incomparably beautiful city is described in such a way that it is clear that the goal of the whole sweep of biblical revelation (the glory of the nations, the tree of life, a river of life, eternal Vision of and communion with God) is fulfilled, and God reigns with His people forever and ever (Revelation 21-22:5 )
Micah, Theology of - ...
In a breathtaking turn, he shifts from these judicial sentences reducing Jerusalem to a heap of rubble and its temple to a forested height to seven
Visions pertaining to Israel's "last days" (4:1,6; 5:10), a future that paradoxically reverses the present situationthe "now" of distress (4:9,11; 5:1, not translated in NIV)and at the same time brings to a fitting outcome that toward which it is striving. ...
In the first of these
Visions with regard to the last days Micah sees Mount Zion established as the true religion over all false, pagan religions (4:1). ...
In the second
Vision of these last days, Micah sees the lame remnant regathered as a strong nation (4:6-7); and in the third, the kingdom's former glory is again restored to Jerusalem (4:8). ...
In the fourth
Vision, Micah transforms the cry of the exiles going into Babylon into the cry of a woman in labor. ...
In the fifth
Vision and at the center of these glorious prophecies (5:1-6), Micah now predicts that the remnant will give birth to the Messiah, who will be born in lowly Bethlehem, David's cradle (v. ...
In the sixth
Vision, Micah foresees that the restored remnant will become a savor of life and death among the nations (5:7-9) (cf. Clowney, Dreams,
Visions and Oracles ; K
Peter - ...
In spite of all this, a special
Vision from God was necessary to convince Peter that uncircumcised Gentiles were to be accepted into the church freely, without their first having to submit to the Jewish law (
Acts 10:9-16). As a result of the
Vision he went to Caesarea, where a God-fearing Roman centurion, along with his household, believed the gospel and received the Holy Spirit the same as Jewish believers (
Acts 10:17-48). Peter silenced them by describing his
Vision and telling them of the events at Caesarea (
Acts 11:1-18)
Error - —As one who lived in the undimmed
Vision of holiness and truth, ‘who saw life steadily and saw it whole,’ Jesus must have felt with an intensity we cannot fathom how sin had distorted the reason of man as well as perverted his affections. But the eye brings with it the power of seeing; what we see depends not merely upon the object, but upon the organ of
Vision. Thus the ‘pure heart’ is the condition of the
Vision of God (
Matthew 5:8)
Sincerity - Sincerity implies the single heart and eye, which alone can receive the
Vision of God. It is the condition of spiritual
Vision. It is the unpurged mind that misses the
Vision
Iron (2) - " Iron symbolizes the fourth kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar's
Vision (Daniel 2), namely, Rome
Unity - The prophetic
Vision of God's future anticipates the day when God will reunite the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah, bringing back all the scattered exiles (
Ezekiel 37:15-23 )
Hair - ...
Song of Solomon 5:11 (b) The black hair of our wonderful Lord JESUS was an indication of his youthful character, His power, vigor,
Vision and activity as a rich young king
Anoint - The setting up of a stone and anointing it by Jacob, as here recorded, in grateful memory of his celestial
Vision, probably became the occasion of idolatry, in succeeding ages, and gave rise to the erection of temples composed of shapeless masses of unhewn stone, of which so many astonishing remains are scattered up and down the Asiatic and the European world
Elijah - He fled into the wilderness, and was brought to Horeb, the mount of God, where he was comforted by a
Vision of God's power and grace
Cross, Crucify - ...
As for the Chi, or X, which Constantine declared he had seen in a
Vision leading him to champion the Christian faith, that letter was the initial of the word "Christ" and had nothing to do with "the Cross" (for xulon, "a timber beam, a tree," as used for the stauros, see under TREE)
Mary Magdalene - She, Salome, and Mary mother of James, "when it was yet dark," at early "dawn of the first day of the week," "came to see the sepulchre," "bringing the sweet spices which they had prepared" wherewith to "anoint Him," in a liquid state, since they regarded the use of the powdered spices of Nicodemus wrapped in the swathes as an incomplete and provisional interment (
Matthew 28:1;
Luke 24:1;
Mark 16:1-2). ...
The
Vision of angels that told her and the rest that Jesus was risen gladdened her at first, then her sorrows returned, she thought it but a
Vision
Goodness - For man, having once seen the perfect manhood of the Christ, and felt His power to overcome sin and death, had gained a
Vision of religion that might perpetuate such a type, and the
Vision would not lightly fade
Look - We must be content, therefore, to study Christ’s look in the more objective sense in which it expresses simply the act of
Vision. Retaining God continually in the field of
Vision, Jesus’ sight was not thereby dimmed, but only purged and purified for all other exercise
Peniel - A spot remarkable in Scripture from the
Vision of Jacob. " (
John 1:18) Let the reader read the whole passage concerning this Peniel, this hallowed ground, as it is recorded through the whole chapter, (
Genesis 32:1-32) and let him then compare what is there said with what the prophet Hosea, about a thousand years after, said concerning this
Vision; and let him then, looking up for the teaching of God the Holy Ghost, determine for himself
Ananias - A Christian disciple who dwelt in Damascus, and to whom Christ appeared in a
Vision telling him to go to Saul of Tarsus, who was praying and had Seen in a
Vision a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him that he might receive his sight (
Acts 9:10-17)
Merit - Hence, man can now, in virtue of the merits of Christ and with the help of His graces, strictly merit before God a supernatural reward in the form of the beatific
Vision
Divination - The Bible supposes that a priority rests on revelatory forms (dream,
Vision, oracle) rather than on inductive ones (Urim/ Thummim, ephod)
Cup - ...
In a
Vision of destruction recorded by Jeremiah (25:15), God will force all the nations to drink from his cup and stagger to destruction
False Prophet - I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false
Vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds
Kedron - This gives point to Ezekiel's
Vision (
Ezekiel 47:8); the waters from under the right side of the temple went E
Miriam - God's reply implies that, though receiving prophetical revelations, she did not receive them "mouth to mouth apparently" and immediately as Moses, who "beheld the similitude of the Lord," whereas she and others saw only in a "vision" or "dream
Bed - Stones served as Jacob's "pillows" (Hebrew) and afterwards as the consecrated pillar to commemorate the divine
Vision granted him (
Genesis 28:11)
Tithe - (
Genesis 14:20 ;
Hebrews 7:2,6 ) ...
Jacob, after his
Vision at Luz, devoting a tenth of all his property to God in case he should return home in safety (
Genesis 28:22 ) The first enactment of the law in respect of tithe is the declaration that the tenth of all produce, as well as of flocks and cattle belongs to Jehovah and must be offered to him that the tithe was to be paid in kind, or, if redeemed, with an addition of one fifth to its value
Bethlehem - )...
A field southeast of town has been identified as the place where the shepherds had the
Vision of the angels
Rain - This is true in the early part of our lives when the mind is active, the
Vision is clear, and there is strength for action
Mirror - The older interpretation-‘beholding as in a mirror’-loses the parallel between Moses’ direct
Vision of God and ours (by faith) of Christ, and fails to do justice to the ‘unveiled face
Hair - In the Apocalyptic
Vision of Christ, His hair is said to be ‘while as white wool, as snow’ (
Revelation 1:14), a detail of dignity borrowed from the OT picture of Jahweh, as ‘ancient of days’ (
Daniel 7:9)
Peace: of a Believer - True peace will increase till it melts into the eternal rest of the beatific
Vision, where ...
'Not a wave of trouble rolls Across the peaceful breast
Lamp - And when the Lord Jesus appeared to John, he was seen in the midst of the golden candlesticks (
Revelation 1:12-13) And John saw before the throne, at another
Vision, seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, (
Revelation 4:5) (See also
Exodus 25:37;
Exo 37:23;
Numbers 8:2;
Zechariah 4:2) No doubt, that besides the general use of lighting the temple, they had a reference to spiritual things, and were meant as emblems of the illuminating and brightening offices of God the Holy Ghost to the churches and people
Answer - , where this “answering” is recorded, it is quite clear that God initiated the encounter and that, although He spoke with Jacob, the emphasis is on the
Vision of the ladder and the relationship with God that it represented
Thorn - Some think it was sore eyes and defective
Vision
Axe - Under this image of the axe, the road-maker (
Matthew 3:3) has his
Vision of the wood-cutter and his effectual working (
Matthew 3:10)
Draught of Fishes - Peter, who some time before had been brought to Jesus by his brother Andrew (
John 1:41) and had followed Him as His disciple (
Matthew 4:18, Mark 1:16), now begs Jesus to depart from him for he is ‘a sinful man’
, but on a repeated command leaves all and follows Jesus
Wing - ...
The word “wing” appears 109 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, with particular concentration in the description of the 2 cherubim of wood in Solomon’s temple and in Ezekiel’s
Vision of the “creatures,” or cherubim
Throne - Isaiah received a
Vision of God’s glory revealed in the temple (
Elijah - In Mount Sinai the downcast man of God was witness of Jehovah's strength and experienced Jehovah's tenderness in a very remarkable
Vision
Shushan - Here also Daniel had the
Vision of the ram with two horns, and the goat with one horn, &c, in the third year of Belshazzar's reign
Almond Tree - ]'>[1] This is the first
Vision with which the Prophet was honoured; and his attention is roused by a very significant emblem of that severe correction with which the Most High was hastening to visit his people for their iniquity: and from the species of tree to which the rod belonged, he is warned of its near approach
Shushan - Here Daniel had the
Vision of the ram and he-goat, in the third year of Belshazzar,
Daniel 8:1-27
Daniel - He was chosen, with his three companions, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, to reside at Nebuchadnezzar's court, where he received a suitable education, and made great progress in all the sciences of the Chaldeans, but declined to pollute himself by eating provisions from the king's table, which would often be ceremonially unclean to a Jew, or defiled by some connection with idol-worship. At a later period he interpreted another dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards the celebrated
Vision of Belshazzar-one of whose last works was to promote Daniel to an office much higher than he had previously held during his reign,
Daniel 5:29 8:27 . In the third year of Cyrus, he had a series of
Visions disclosing the state of the Jews till the coming of the promised Redeemer; and at last we see him calmly awaiting the peaceful close of a well-spent life, and the gracious resurrection of the just
Solomon's Song - This I know not how to express otherwise than by a calm, delightful abstraction of the soul from all concerns of the world; and sometimes a kind of
Vision of fixed ideas and imaginations of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness, far from mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God
Revelation (2) - Some of the most saintly lives that the world has seen have been lived in the strength of the conviction that the changes and chances, as others call them, of the years are but the unveiling of a Divine face; and that the
Vision of God becomes brighter when seen through the mists of pain.
Revelation 4:2), he heard the Heavenly voice pronouncing judgment on the Churches, and saw in a
Vision the Heavenly figure which is always standing unseen in their midst. Paul when the
Vision of the Christ at the gates of Damascus changed the whole course of his carcer; ‘it pleased God to reveal his Son in me’ (
Galatians 1:16) is his description of the experience. It may be—we do not know—that sometimes a true
Vision of the spiritual order has proved too much for a brain intellectually feeble, and that the mental powers have been permanently injured by too great an effort being demanded of them. But to conclude, therefore, that all alike who have claimed to have had
Visions of the spiritual order, or who believe that God has answered their prayers directly, are necessarily insane, would be a strangely perverse and illogical inference. Despite these abnormal cases, the men of spiritual insight who see ‘visions,’ who live near to the boundary of the spiritual order, are the truly ‘practical’ men, and achieve most of enduring benefit for the race. Not all at once can we expect to experience the Beatific
Vision, but only in proportion as we grow more and more into the Divine likeness, and learn, through the slow and often disappointing discipline of life, to read the Divine purposes. ...
It is the consummation of this progress, both for the individual and for the race, which is portrayed in the
Vision of the prophet as the moment when ‘the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together,’—not as isolated individuals, but as members of the great company of the saints,—‘they shall see it together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it’ (
Isaiah 40:5). That is his way of expressing a great principle which we have already considered, that revelation, to be instructive, presupposes a certain mental capacity, a keenness of spiritual
Vision, in those to whom it is addressed. But, he adds, allegorizing the old story of the veil on the face of Moses, ‘if they turn to the Lord, the veil is removed’ (
Acts 3:16), and an open
Vision is
Esdras, the Second Book of - ...
Divested of these additions, 2 Es is a series of seven
Visions, separated for the most part, in the experience of the seer, by periods of fasting and prayer. In the first four
Visions (chs. The sixth
Vision (ch. 70, and the difficult Eagle
Vision being interpreted of the succession of Roman Emperors (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian) after that event. 100; (2) the Eagle
Vision (A =
Vision (M = ch. Its spirit may be somewhat narrow, its style not infrequently tedious, its later Visions lacking in imaginative power, and its solutions of the moral problem disappointing; yet it strikes a truly reflective note, and breathes throughout an unconquerable faith in God and the vindication of His righteousness. The same Visionary method of Divine revelation is pursued; the schemes of the Last Things run upon similar lines; Rome is again the hostile world-power standing in the background; and there are not wanting resemblances of diction close enough to suggest a common source (cf
Ascension of Isaiah - The first five chapters deal in the main with Manasseh’s wickedness and Isaiah’s martyrdom, with a curious insertion (3:13b-4:18) which claims to be a
Vision foretelling the life of Christ and the fortunes of His Church, awkwardly introduced as explaining the wrath of Beliar which occasioned the martyrdom of Isaiah. This narrates how in the twenty-sixth year of his reign Hezekiah called Manasseh to receive accounts of
Visions which he had seen (1:1, 2). ’...
(b) The
Vision of Isaiah (6-11). Isaiah returns to his body and binds Hezekiah to secrecy concerning the
Vision. The
Vision is quoted not only by Jerome, Com. The Ethiopic, Slavonic, and Latin texts
of 6:1 imply the title ‘Vision of Isaiah,’ and so does Montfaucon’s Canon. As Charles observes: ‘that such a work was incorporated in the Ascension might also be inferred
from 1:2b-5a, which describe the contents of Hezekiah’s
Vision. Beliar is regarded as served by Manasseh and ruling in his heart (1:8, 9, 11; 2:1, 4, 7; 3:11; 5:1, 15), and as aiding Belchira (5:3), The name ‘Beliar’ is absent from the
Vision, and in the Test. In part the two seem identical; both dwell and rule in the firmament (7:9; 4:2), take possession of Manasseh (2:1; 1:9; 3:11; 5:1), are wroth with Isaiah for his
Visions (5:15; 3:13; 5:1), and cause Isaiah to be sawn asunder (11:41; 5:15)
Supper - In keeping with Greek custom among certain gilds, each one brought with him his basket of provisions, and these were spread indiscriminately before, and partaken of by, the company present as a corporate body. It is a
Vision of the final consummation of the Kingdom, including the overthrow of the kings of the earth, the binding and loosing again of Satan, and general judgment. But, in this
Vision of the Messiah’s final victory over His foes, it must be remembered that, though He is pictured as a silent and implacable conqueror, who has vanquished all His foes and disposed of them in huge masses, leaving them to their inexorable doom, yet He is not described as a merely human, vindictive conqueror
Jacob - The
Vision of angels was the counterpart of that he had formerly seen at Bethel, when, twenty years before, the weary, solitary traveller, on his way to Padan-aram, saw the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached to heaven (28:12). See references to his
Vision at Bethel and his possession of land at Shechem in
John 1:51 ; 4:5,12 ; also to the famine which was the occasion of his going down into Egypt in
Acts 7:12 (See LUZ ; BETHEL
Daniel - Through the example of his life and the
Visions recorded in his book, Daniel had a great influence upon people of later generations. The name that Jesus most commonly used of himself, the Son of man, was taken from Daniel’s
Vision of the heavenly and universal king (
Daniel 7:13-14;
Mark 2:28;
Mark 14:62); the writer to the Hebrews used Daniel as an example of the person of true faith (
Hebrews 11:33); and John, in the book of Revelation, recorded
Visions that were based largely on those of Daniel (cf. The first deals with stories of selected people of God in a heathen country, the second with
Visions that God gave to his servant Daniel. ...
Because of the many
Visions recorded in it, the book of Daniel has characteristics of that kind of Hebrew literature known as apocalyptic (from the Greek apokalupto, meaning ‘to reveal or uncover’). In apocalyptic literature the
Visions are always strange, with weird symbolism that often features fierce beasts. ...
The first of Daniel’s
Visions was of four beasts that symbolized the successive empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. The next
Vision developed details of one of the four empires, namely, the Greek (8:1-27). ...
At the time of Daniel’s
Visions, the Jews were still in captivity in Babylon, but expected to return to their homeland soon
Daniel, Book of - They present
Visions of God and His future acts, describing in figurative language the future of peace and victory rising out of current troubles. ...
The
Visions and angelic figures of Daniel along with its strongly figurative, symbolic language tie it closely to the apocalyptic. The two languages combine to form two distinctly separate sections of the book (1–6; 7–12), the first told in narrative form about Daniel and his friends with a historical conclusion (
Daniel 6:28 ) and the second told in form of Daniel's
Visions. ...
In Daniel 1-6 the dreams or phenomena come to heathen kings, but in Daniel 7-12 Daniel has the
Visions. In Daniel 1-6 Daniel is the one who interprets the dreams, but in 7–12 “someone” else interprets the dreams and
Visions to Daniel. Daniel's
Visions Point the Way Through Persecution to Hope (
Daniel 7:1-12:13 ).
Vision of four beasts shows four kingdoms to be overcome by Son of man and saints of the Most High, who will reign forever (
Daniel 7:1-28 ).
Vision of ram, he goat, and four horns points to passing of Persians, Medes, and of proud Greeks, one of whom will interrupt daily sacrifices of Temple for a while (
Daniel 8:1-27 ). A heaven-sent
Vision shows that Scripture points to battles between north and south until the northern king proudly triumphs and persecutes the people of God's covenant, taking away their sacrificial system and desecrating the Temple, but facing disaster in the end (
Daniel 10:1-11:45 ). The first sees Daniel standing in the precise line of previous prophets, so that every detail of his
Visions points to the future and not the past
Vine - ...
In the apocalyptic
Vision, as elsewhere in the NT, the work of judgment is compared to the vintage
Kidron (1) - It is probable that the place of the ‘graves of the common people’ (
Jeremiah 26:23 ) was also here, and it has been suggested, from a comparison with
Jeremiah 31:40 , with less plausibility, that this may have been the scene of Ezekiel’s
Vision of the dry bones (
Ezekiel 37:1-28 )
Gate (2) - The gates of the city were closed at night, hence in the
Vision of the city where there is no night they remain unclosed (
Revelation 21:25)
Keys - ...
In
Revelation 1:18 the Son of Man in John’s
Vision says: ‘I have the keys of death and of Hades,’ i
Wing - It also gets smaller and smaller to the
Vision until it is lost in the skies
Caesarea - Cornelius, a Roman centurion, influenced by a
Vision to send to Joppa for St
Corn - And these lessons from the corn in the records of the Lord’s ministry may be greatly extended as we recall what He said about the sowing of the corn (parable of the Sower) and its reaping (the Tares and the Wheat); how He saw in the white fields a
Vision of a great spiritual harvest only waiting to be gathered (
John 4:35); how at Capernaum He turned the people’s minds from the barley bread of the previous day’s miracle to think of Himself as the Bread of Life (John 6); and said of the broken loaf at the Last Supper, ‘Take, eat, this is my body
Deliverance - And we can hardly doubt that, as He looked upon that long and sad procession of the bodily wrecks that came to Him ‘at even’ (
Mark 1:32), the heart of the Missioner in Christ was kindled by the
Vision of souls that would be set free to fulfil better their purpose of life when the numbed or tortured body was given rest and cure
Peter, First Epistle of - The thought of a 'spiritual house' composed of living stones, in 1 Peter 2 connects the epistle with the revelation given to Peter in Matthew 16 — as the reference to the Mount of Transfiguration in the second epistle brings before our minds the
Vision of the kingdom in Matthew 17 , of which Peter was eye-witness
Animals, Clean And Unclean - ...
It is clear from scripture that the prohibition of certain creatures as unclean affected Israel only, and the
Vision given to Peter manifests that thisrestriction is done away in Christ
Daniel - It is generally believed that he died at Susa, soon after his last
Vision, which is dated in the third year of the reign of Cyrus
Mouth Lips - Even in such purely imaginative descriptions as those of Christ seen in
Vision, with the sword proceeding from His mouth (
Revelation 1:16, etc
Enoch Book of - Yet another recurring feature, and one common to this apocalyptic literature, is the reserving of the
Visions and the books of Enoch for the last days, for the elect to read and understand. ...
A Dream
Vision of Enoch. 4-6); as he reads it he falls asleep and sees
Visions of chastisement, which he recounts to them (xiii. The message of the
Vision is given in xiv. He ascends in the
Vision to heaven, post crystal walls into a crystal house and a greater house beyond, to the blazing throne of the Great Glory (xiv. 1 commences ‘the second
Vision … of wisdom’; till the present day such wisdom has never been given as is embodied in these three Parables recounted to those that dwell on the earth (xxxvii. );
Vision of fallen angels in Prison (lxiv. -Two Dream
Visions: (a) lxxxiii. ...
(a)
Vision of earth’s destruction: Mahalalel bids Enoch pray that a remnant may remain (lxxxiii. 28:2-this title is implied in the division of the work into books; 1 En xiv. :
Visions and journeys (for contents see above). l, and has the ‘angel of peace’ as interpreter of the
Vision (so Charles, Enoch, p. The problem is the oppression of the righteous by the kings and mighty, and the solution consists in a
Vision of the coming liberator and vindicator, the Messiah of supernatural power and privilege. : The Dream
Visions...
There is only one interpolation-xc
Hermas, Known as the Shepherd - there was in circulation a book of
Visions and allegories purporting to be written by one Hermas and commonly known as The Shepherd. The first part consists of
Visions. But a little time after he had a
Vision. The
Vision presents all the characteristics of a real dream; the want of logical connexion between the parts, the changes of scene, the fading out of Rhoda as principal figure and the appearance of the aged lady in her room; the substitution of quite a different offence for the sinful thought which weighed on his conscience at the beginning; the physical distress in his sleep at first presenting the idea of walking on and on without being able to find an outlet, afterwards of mental grief at words spoken to him; the long reading of which only the words spoken immediately before awaking are remembered,—all these indicate that we are reading not a literary invention like the dream of the Pilgrim's Progress, but the recital, a little dressed up it may be, of a dream which the narrator really had. In another
Vision, a year after, he saw again the lady and her book, and received the book to copy, but still it conveyed no idea to his mind. In subsequent
Visions we have a different account of the matter; he sees in each a woman more and more youthful in appearance, whom he is taught to identify with the church of his former
Vision; and it is explained that he saw her old at first because the spirit of Christians had been broken by infirmity and doubt, and afterwards more youthful as by the revelations made him their spirit had been renewed. After his first two
Visions Hermas watched eagerly for new revelations, and set himself to obtain them by fasting and prayer. In those later
Visions, while the pictures presented to his mind are such as we can well believe to have been dream representations, the explanations given of them have a coherence only to be found in the thoughts of a waking man. At the end of the first part he has the
Vision in which he sees a man dressed like a shepherd, who tells him that he is the angel of repentance and the guardian to whose care he had been entrusted. Are we to suppose that Hernias in relating his
Visions intended no more than to present edifying lessons in an allegorical form, and that it was merely as an instructive fiction that the book was regarded when it was introduced into public reading in the church? Donaldson says: "If the book be not inspired, then either the writer fancied he had seen these
Visions, or tried to make other people fancy this, or he clothed the work in a fictitious form designedly and undisguisedly. These details might be fictitious, as the angels, the towers, and the beasts of the
Visions. We could not even assume that his name was Hermas for the narrator of the
Visions, who bears this name, might be an imaginary personage But we ourselves feel bound to reject this as altogether mistaken criticism, and as an application to the 2nd cent. " If the authorities of the church regarded it merely as a novel, would they have appointed it for public reading? At the end of the century Clement and others shew no doubt of the reality of the
Visions Were the men of a couple of generations earlier likely to have been more severe in their judgments, and would an angelic appearance seem to them so incredible that one who related it would be regarded as the narrator of a fiction that he did not intend to be believed? The book itself contains directions to the rulers of the Roman church to send the volume to foreign churches. A man at the present day might publish a story of
Visions, and be persuaded that his readers would not take him seriously, but no one in the 2nd cent. In particular, if we are to set down as fools all who have believed that supernatural intimations may be given in dreams, our list would be a long one, and would include many eminent names; and though modern science may regard
Visions as phenomena admitting a natural explanation, it is not reasonable to expect such a view from the science of the 2nd cent. What Hermas tells of his personal history and of the times and circumstances of his
Visions conveys to us the impression of artless truth. On the other hand, if the book be true history, it is very much to the point that Hermas should get a revelation, directing his wife to keep her tongue in better order, and his children to pay more respect to their parents; nor need we suppose Hermas guilty of dishonesty in thus turning his gift of prophecy to the advantage of his family comfort; for nothing can be more natural than that the thoughts which troubled his waking moments should present themselves in his
Visions. There is nothing incredible in the supposition that the pictures of the first
Vision did present themselves to the mind of Hernias as he relates them. Still, it is a year before he has another
Vision. But perhaps his language expresses no more than his belief in the divine inspiration under which he wrote, for elsewhere he states that he does not regard the personages of his
Visions as having objective reality, and those things which in the earlier part are represented as spoken to him by the church are afterwards said to have been spoken by God's Spirit under the form of the church. 8) to go after three days and speak in the hearing of all the saints the words he had heard in his
Vision. The question was asked, Was it possible to renew such again to repentance? In both our Lord's second coming was eagerly looked forward to, and a knowledge of God's coming dealings with His church sought for from
Visions and revelations. At the time of the
Visions he was apparently farming. According to a reading which there seems no good ground to question, he supposes himself in one of his
Visions to have been transported to Arcadia, and Mahaffy says (Rambles in Greece, p. Zahn conjectures that Hermas was born in Egypt because the architecture of the tower of Hermas's
Visions resembles the description in Josephus of the Jewish temple in the Egyptian Heliopolis
Temple - The biblical authors from Moses through Ezekiel and Haggai to John of Patmos never describe a complete temple, but offer a
Vision of what the temple was to be: the locus of the presence of God. ...
Offering a
Vision rather than a blueprint for the temple is in keeping with the inherent ambiguity of the concept "temple of the Lord, " for how can the transcendent deity be localized in a building? The
Vision is also in keeping with the function of temple as a symbol. God appears to the newly created covenantal community, a community formed by the exodus and, now at Sinai (which parallels Jerusalem as a place par excellence for "visions" of God), given an identity, including instructions where Yahweh's presencewith the full implication of both blessing and dangerwould be manifest (Exodus 24-26 ; 33:12-17 ). The tent is a "portable temple" of sorts, but not provisional nor simply a pattern; rather, the tent is a unique "dwelling. What responses do we find in Scripture to the building of the temple beyond those found in the immediate context of it being built?...
Rather than "going up" to the mountain of the house of the Lord to hear the word of the Lord, as in the eschatological
Visions of Isaiah and Micah (4:1-2), the Babylonians "descend" upon the temple to break down its wall and carry off the temple treasures. Temple theology is most fruitful when it is functioning as a powerful symbol, with the ability to be fully grounded in (sacred) space and yet generate new metaphoric associationsa
Vision of life in the presence of the Lord
Amos - The simple life of the uplands, the isolation from the dissipation of a wealthier civilization, the aloofness from all priestly or prophetic guilds, had doubtless much to do with the directness of his
Vision and speech, and with the spiritual independence which found in him so noble an utterance. The direct call from God to testify against the unrighteousness of both kingdoms had probably come to him not long before; and amidst the throng at Bethel he proclaimed his
Vision of Jehovah standing with a plumb-line to measure the deflection of Israel, and prepared to punish the iniquity of the house of Jeroboam II. ’...
(iii) 7 9:10, a series of five
Visions, interrupted in
Amos 7:10-17 by the account of Amaziah’s attempt to intimidate Amos. The
Visions are ( a ) the devouring locusts (
Amos 7:1-3 ); ( b ) the consuming fire (
Amos 7:4-6 ); ( c ) the plumb-line (
Amos 7:7-9 ); ( d ) the basket of summer fruit (
Amos 8:1-3 ); ( e ) the smitten sanctuary, and destruction of the worshippers (
Amos 9:1-10 ). In that direct
Vision of Jehovah, Amos learned the truths which he was the first to proclaim to the world: that Jehovah was the God of the whole earth; that the nations were in His keeping; that justice and righteousness were His great demands; that privilege, if it meant opportunity, meant likewise responsibility and liability to the doom of those who have seen and have not believed
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs -
Visions are mentioned six times. He describes his
Vision in Abel-Maul, following on his sudden realization of the world’s sin. He describes his second
Vision; seven angels consecrate him and put on him the high-priestly robes; they foretell his descendants’ three-fold offices (i. At Bethel Jacob is told in
Vision that Levi is to be priest; he pays tithes to God through him (ix. He gives an account or his
Vision on the Mount of Olives: Levi obtains the sun, Judah the moon, and Joseph ascends on a winged bull. In a second
Vision-that of the Ship of Jacob in a storm-Joseph flees in a boat, Levi and Judah keep together; at Levi’s prayer they reach land (v. He recounts his two-fold
Vision: (1) of twelve harts, of which three remained and became lambs, then all were restored as twelve sheep; (2) of twelve bulls-then of a lamb which overcame all the beasts who attacked him (xix. He tells how he had a
Vision of Joseph in his absence (x. ...
(a) The primary authority now extant for the text is the Greek version, which Charles divides into two main divisions, the α text and the β text
Cloud, Cloud of the Lord - Nahum's theophanic
Vision portrays clouds as the dust of Yahweh's feet (1:3). In Ezekiel's inaugural
Vision, Yahweh emerges from a great cloud riding upon his celestial palanquin (1:4,28), and the temple is filled with a cloud some fourteen months later when the covenant lawsuit is completed and executive judgment is about to be poured out (10:3-4). The remaining twenty-two New Testament occurrences of the word "cloud" appear in the context of theophany, and encompass six theologically crucial, eschatologically related events or
Visionary scenes in salvation history: (1) the pillar of cloud at the exodus, viewed as a type of Christian baptism in the time of eschatological fulfillment (
1 Corinthians 10:1-2 ); (2) Jesus' transfiguration, as a foretaste of the kingdom of God, during which the Father appears and speaks in a cloud (
Matthew 17:5 ;
Mark 9:7 ;
Luke 9:34 ); (3) Jesus' ascension, explained by the angels as a paradigm for his return (
Acts 1:9 ); (4) the "mighty angel" descending from heaven wrapped in a cloud, announcing (against the eschatological backdrop of
Daniel 12:7 ) that time should be no longer (
Revelation 10:1 ); (5) the two resurrected witnesses ascending to heaven in a cloud, described in the context of the eschatological measuring of the temple of God (
Revelation 11:12 ); and (6) Jesus' parousia, against the backdrop of
Daniel 7:13 , as the Son of Man coming with/on/in a cloud/the clouds/the clouds of heaven (
Matthew 24:30 ; 26:64 ;
Mark 13:26 ; 14:62 ;
Luke 12:54 ; 21:27 ;
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ;
Revelation 1:7 ; 14:14-16 )
Work - ...
Whereas the first creation narrative presents a comprehensive
Vision of God's activity, the second (2:4-25) focuses on the creation of humanity, God's supreme work. , to dominate
Vision); it is also to be placed on the hands (i. The community at worship also has a
Vision of human work. ...
This
Vision of God's work at the center of human life, and the blessing of human work that results, is magnificently illustrated in the prophets' eschatological
Vision. ...
The New Testament concludes with an unparalleled
Vision of God alive and active in history, bringing the historical process to consummation
Peter - He laid the foundation of the church among the Jews on the day of Pentecost,
Acts 2:1-47, and, after a special
Vision and revelation, among the Gentiles also, in the conversion of Cornelius
Bethel - " It was expressly so named by Jacob, when he had the
Vision of the heavenly ladder, on his way from his father at Beersheba to Harsh (
Genesis 28:19;
Genesis 31:13)
Seal - 1, strengthened by kata, intensive, is used of the "book" seen in the
Vision in
Revelation 5:1 , RV, "close sealed (with seven seals)," the successive opening of which discloses the events destined to take place throughout the period covered by chapters 6 to 19
Beersheba - Long afterward, on Jacob's descent to Egypt, he halted there, sacrificed unto the God of Isaac, and had a
Vision of God encouraging him to go down
Church: Her Glory in Tribulation - ' It was a fair
Vision to gaze upon, and reminded us 'of the mystic rainbow, which the seer of Patmos beheld, which was round about the throne, for it strikes us that it was seen by John as a complete circle, of which we see but the half on earth; the upper arch of manifest glory we rejoice to gaze upon, but the lower and foundation arch of the eternal purpose, upon which the visible display of grace is founded, is reserved for our contemplation in another world
Fire - The appearance of Christ in John's
Vision (
Revelation 1:14 ;
Revelation 2:18 ), was with eyes “as a flame of fire,” and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (
Acts 2:3 ), was accompanied by “tongues like as of fire
Prophet - The "prophet" proclaimed the message given to him, as the "seer" beheld the
Vision of God
Yoke - When from the fields His eye turned to the Scriptures to survey the story of His people, on many a page the yoke met His
Vision
Ananias - By the Lord's direction in a
Vision, he sought out Saul in his blindness and foodlessness for three days after Jesus' appearing to him; putting hands on Saul, Ananias was the Lord's instrument of restoring his sight, and conveying to him the Holy Spirit, that he might be "a chosen vessel to bear Jesus' name before the Gentiles, and kings and Israel, as a witness unto all men of what he had seen and heard, suffering as well as doing great things for His name's sake
Gain - A man may count the world a thing to be gained, and give his soul as the price of it; or, with the wiser Apostle, may reckon communion with Christ a gain worth the sacrifice of everything else; or, rising to the
Vision of the great beatitude, may look for the supreme gain, something better even than living here in Christ, to the life beyond the grave
Brass (Brazen) - ...
Daniel 10:6 (a) In this
Vision it may be that we are given a description of the Lord CHRIST as to His power, purity and position
Apparition - ἑτιφάνεια, Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 ‘vision,’ (Revised Version margin) ‘manifestation’)
Fierceness - When He encounters men or communities incapable of the heavenly
Vision, His words are swords
Jeremi'ah - " How could one who saw the nation about to reap the awful harvest they had been sowing, and yet had a
Vision of what they might have been and might yet be, help indulging in "Lamentations"? --ED
Ezekiel - The book which bears his name may be considered under the five following divisions: the first three chapters contain the glorious appearance of God to the prophet, and his solemn appointment to his office, with instructions and encouragements for the discharge of it. From the fourth to the twenty- fourth chapter inclusive, he describes, under a variety of
Visions and similitudes, the calamities impending over Judea, and the total destruction of the temple and city of Jerusalem, by Nebuchadnezzar, occasionally predicting another period of yet greater desolation, and more general dispersion. The last nine chapters contain a remarkable
Vision of the structure of a new temple and a new polity, applicable in the first instance to the return from the Babylonian captivity, but in its ultimate sense referring to the glory and prosperity of the universal church of Christ. Jerom observes that the
Visions of Ezekiel are among the things in Scripture hard to be understood
Lamb - His sacrifice, the efficacy of which avails for those who accept the salvation thereby provided, forms the ground of the execution of Divine wrath for the rejector, and the defier of God,
John 14:10 ; (c) in the description of the second "Beast,"
Revelation 13:11 , seen in the
Vision "like a lamb," suggestive of his acting in the capacity of a false messiah, a travesty of the true
Jeremi'ah - " How could one who saw the nation about to reap the awful harvest they had been sowing, and yet had a
Vision of what they might have been and might yet be, help indulging in "Lamentations"? --ED
Daniel, Theology of - ...
The Book of Daniel has two discernible parts: the historical narratives of chapters 1-6 and the
Visions of chapters 7-12. The
Visions of the second half are the personal accounts of Daniel dated to the later part of his life. ...
Though the
Visions of chapters 7-12 are in general less well known than the beloved stories of the first half, they nonetheless contain individual passages that are noted for their theological importance. The
Vision of chapter 7 portrays God as "the Ancient of Days"; another figure is called "the Son of Man, " a designation Jesus applied to himself (
Matthew 16:27 ; 24:30 ; 26:64 ;
Mark 8:38 ; 13:26 , ; etc. The interpretation of the
Vision of chapter 9 includes the hotly debated "seventy sevens" or "seventy weeks of years" passage (vv. The concluding
Vision contains the only explicit Old Testament reference to the resurrection (12:1-3). Through both the narratives and
Visions, Daniel demonstrates the lordship of God over the whole world, not just Jerusalem and the Israelites. Later, God "gave" (natan
) the four young Jews surpassing knowledge and discernment, particularly to Daniel, a gift for understanding
Visions and dreams (v. Daniel is given the ability to interpret dreams and
Visions that are mysterious and impossible for the noblest and wisest of Babylon's wisemen to discern (chaps. Rather than present sermons against Israel's immediate neighbors, Daniel sees
Visions of future empires that oppose God worldwide and oppress his people everywhere. Both the historical narratives and the
Visions portray a struggle between these successive rulers of the world and God's kingdom. ...
The first of the
Visions (chap. The
Visions reveal how that sovereignty will play itself out in human history. In the
Visions of chapters 7-12, the arrogance of future world leaders is the enemy of God and his people. Daniel had envisioned evil incarnate in the form of the little horn, the symbol of a ruthless human dictator who stops at nothing to achieve his own selfish ambitions (7:8,8:9, though the two horns are not identical)
Illustrations - The concreteness of the poet, his
Vision of truth and symbol wedded together, of principle incarnated in fact, is closely akin to the ordinary man’s ways of thinking and speaking. The heart has its own reasons:
Visions of what is noble and fair, spells mighty there. ...
Many of Jesus’ parables and pictures are more than mere illustrations; they have in them the imagination’s power of interpretation, the revealing
Vision of the poet. Our Lord ‘reasoned in figures, because He had an eye for nature’ Thought and image were born together in His seeing; His was the poet’s mind, with its concreteness and beauty, its outlook of the whole personality, its individual
Vision of things flushed with emotion; and the pictures He set in the light give joy to the generations as they pass, because they first of all gave joy to Himself as they arose in His imagination
Monnica - 8), she took ship and followed him, and on a stormy voyage consoled the terrified sailors, assuring them that she had seen a
Vision which promised safety ( ib. At the close of the dialogue she speaks of the bliss of the Eternal
Vision: "This beyond dispute is the blessed life, the perfect; at which we must look to be enabled to arrive, hastening on in solid faith, joyful hope, and burning love " ( ib. Augustine records a conversation with his mother as they sat at a window looking on the viridarium of the house—a delightful colloquy ("colloquebamur soli valde dulciter"), rising from theme to theme of subtle but holy thought to the height of the beatific
Vision
Isaiah - The Historical Background Isaiah's ministry spanned the period from his call
Vision (about 740 B. ...
Isaiah was called to be a prophet of Yahweh in striking
Visions which he experienced in the Temple about 740 B. The elements in that
Vision forecast the major themes of his preaching, particularly the transcendent nature of Yahweh, which may serve as a modern translation of Hebraic “holiness. Underlying his conceptual world was his inaugural
Vision: Yahweh was the ultimate King; His nature was infinite holiness or transcendence; His holiness manifested itself in righteousness (
Isaiah 5:16 ). The
Vision of Isaiah indicated the resistance this program would encounter but concluded with the certainty of its performance
Appear, Appearance - While later rabbinic texts hold that a direct
Vision of God is reserved for the righteous in the age to come, the Pentateuch in particular recounts that God was visible (in various forms) at certain moments to certain people. ...
God makes his appearances in various forms, most typically through an angel (who can look very human
), in
Visions, and in dreams. One of the most profound expressions of religious longing is the hope for a
Vision of God (
Psalm 42:2 )
Abgar - On the appearance of Thaddaeus ‘a great
Vision appeared to Abgar in the countenance of Thaddaeus,’ which led the former to prostrate himself before the latter, to the astonishment of the courtiers, who did not see the
Vision
Sinai - ’ Here Moses was granted the
Vision of the burning bush (
Exodus 3:1 ), whereby he first received a call to lead the Israelites to adopt Jahweh as their covenanted God; and here took place the tremendous theophany which is the central event of the Pentateuch, wherein the covenant was ratified
Dark, Darken, Darkly, Darkness - After the same analogy, what we see and know now is seen "darkly" compared with the direct
Vision in the presence of God hereafter
Suffering - ...
The prophet gained a
Vision of a greater purpose in suffering—carrying the sins of others (
Isaiah 53:1 )
Atone - During his
Vision-call experience, Isaiah’s lips were touched with a coal of fire taken from the altar by one of the seraphim
Camel, Camel's Hair - Its nostrils are close and flat, to exclude the dust of the desert; its feet are heavily padded, and its anatomy shows provision for the enduring of great privation. In Israel this coarse mantle was the badge of the prophet (
Zechariah 13:4 ‘The prophets shall be ashamed each one of his
Vision, when he prophesieth; and they will no more wear a hairy garment in order to deceive’); and in
2 Kings 1:8 Elijah is described as being an ‘owner of hair’ בַּעַל שִעָר, that is, wearing this garment of the prophets; Authorized Version, ‘an hairy man’), and girt with leather
Book - The book of the
Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite” (1:1)
Martyr - " ...
The primitive Christians believed that the martyrs enjoyed every singular privileges; that upon their death they were immediately admitted to the beatific
Vision, while other souls waited for the completion of their happiness till the day of judgment; and that God would grant to their prayers the hastening of his kingdom, and shortening the times of persecution
Door - a door already opened, which none can shut (see Key), and in
Revelation 4:1 a door is already opened in the heavens at the moment the
Vision commences
Flock - John, the beloved apostle, in his days, when admitted in that glorious
Vision of the Lord to see heaven opened, related to the church, that he saw "a multitude, whom no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues
Transgress - 8:12); “How long shall be the
Vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and
the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?” (
Idol - ” Jeremiah told Israel that their prophets were “prophesy
unto you a false
Vision and divination, and a thing of nought …”
Apocalypse - John was banished to Patmos in the latter part of the reign of Domitian, and he returned to Ephesus immediately after the death of that emperor, which happened in the year 96; and as the Apostle states, that these
Visions appeared to him while he was in that island, we may consider this book as written in the year 95 or 96. John asserts the divine authority of the predictions which he is about to deliver; addresses himself to the churches of the Proconsular Asia; and describes the first
Vision, in which he is commanded to write the things then revealed to him. At the fourth chapter the prophetic
Visions begin, and reach to the end of the book
Line - ) Direction; as, the line of sight or
Vision. , marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline
Peter - We find him afterwards denouncing the judgment of God on a guilty couple who had dared to lie to the Holy Ghost,
Acts 5:1-11 ; visiting Samaria, and rebuking Simon the magician,
Acts 8:5-24 ; healing Eneas and raising Dorcas to life at Lydda,
Acts 9:32-43 ; seeing at Joppa a
Vision which prepared him to preach the gospel to the gentile Cornelius,
Acts 10:1-48 ; imprisoned by Herod Agrippa, and delivered by an angel, 1619110855_8 ; and taking a part in the council at Jerusalem,
Acts 15:7-11
Mourning - Human grief ‘will have way’ until, as in the Apocalyptist’s
Vision, God shall wipe away all tears from men’s eyes, and death and mourning shall be no more (
Revelation 21:4)
Door - a door already opened, which none can shut (see Key), and in
Revelation 4:1 a door is already opened in the heavens at the moment the
Vision commences
Isaiah, Book of - The first verse says that the
Vision was concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ...
The following seven divisions are distinctly marked:...
Isaiah 1 — Isaiah 12 : The sinful condition of the people as still in possession of the land; various pleadings and chastisements culminating in the Assyrian; the introduction of Immanuel; ends with a song. Moab, Damascus, "the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia," Egypt, "the desert of the sea," Dumah, Arabia, "the valley of
Vision" (Jerusalem), Tyre, "the earth
made empty and waste, and turned upside down;" and finally the hosts on high and kings on the earth punished
Ezekiel, Book of - The fourth portion is the future temple, its service, and the division of the land, ending with the joyful tidings that the name of the city will then be "The Lord is there. * We have here a wonderful
Vision of the government and providence of God on earth, but united with the throne in heaven. The 390 days were probably from the division of the kingdom in B. ...
Ezekiel 37 is restoration, under the
Vision of the valley of dry bones and the two sticks. ...
Ezekiel 40 — Ezekiel 48 refer to the future temple and the sacrifices, with the division of the land among the twelve tribes
Deaf And Dumb - ]'>[4] It is thus only by a slight metaphorical turn that the adjective stands to describe the impairment or loss of powers of the mind or body; and so of
Vision, of hearing, and articulating. It is significant to observe that Zacharias was on this occasion the victim not merely of lack of faith in the angel’s message, but of real alarm at the
Vision
Bethlehem - is the traditional scene of the angels'
Vision to the shepherds; but the hills were more likely to have been the scene of the flocks being kept than the grain abounding valley
Draw - 4, "to draw up," is used of "drawing" up an animal out of a pit,
Luke 14:5 (RV, "draw up;" AV, "pull out"), and of the "drawing" up of the sheet into heaven, in the
Vision in
Acts 11:10
Micaiah - ...
Micaiah therefore revealed the source unseen of the 400 prophets' falsehood; Jehovah, seen in real
Vision on His throne amidst His hosts, asked, who shall persuade Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead? A lying spirit undertook to influence the 400 to Ahab's ruin (
Zechariah 13:2;
1 John 4:6)
Tabor, Mount - While, for the reasons given, the time-honoured tradition which connects this ‘strange and beautiful mountain’ with the Transfiguration has been almost universally abandoned, it is nevertheless true that it was one of the most prominent objects of
Vision from the outskirts of the early home of Jesus, and its graceful outlines were often before Him, as He journeyed to and fro during the greater part of His public ministry
Tithes - Jacob after his Bethel
Vision vowed a tenth of all that God gave him, should God be with and keep him, and give him bread and raiment, and bring him again to his father's house in peace (
Genesis 28:20-22)
Troas - To Troas he came down from the borders of Bithynia, and received the
Vision which made him ‘immediately’ embark for Europe (
Acts 16:7-10)
Transfiguration - Attempts to interpret the transfiguration as a subjective "vision" (
Matthew 17:9 ; RSV ) ignore the fact that this term can be used to describe historical events
Rich (And Forms) - ...
Proverbs 10:22 (a) In this is described those who are filled with faith, zeal, earnestness,
Vision, as well as the graces of the Spirit of GOD
Ear - ...
The only significant act named in this literature in reference to the ear is that of those who hear Stephen declare his
Vision of Jesus at the right hand of God: they stop their ears, that the blasphemy may not enter (
Acts 7:57)
Clean, Unclean, Common - His
Vision (Acts 10) woke him, and, though he relapsed for an instant (
Galatians 2:9), the work was done; and when that generation passed away, the religious nature of these distinctions had gone from Christianity; cleanliness, instead of being godliness, was next to godliness
Doubt - ’ On the other hand, there is the implied warning that, as the
Vision of God darkens and vanishes, man’s capacity for useful action becomes weaker, until at length it dies away
Speak - It was the “word of the Lord” that came to Abram in a
Vision after his victory over the kings who had captured Lot (
Light - ) The power of perception by
Vision
Light - ) The power of perception by
Vision
Ascension (2) - of Olives; the time, forty days after the Resurrection; the occasion, a conversation concerning the Kingdom; the act of parting in being taken up; the vanishing in a cloud; the
Vision of two men in white apparel and their announcement of His coming again: all indicating a bodily disappearance by an upward movement into the sky. Even if indications of idealization of the past occur in this first part of the book elsewhere, there are none here; the phrasing is simple and matter of fact; there is no sentiment, nor sorrow: only a glad
Vision evoking worship, challenging thought, inspiring courage. Both in the two Gospels which do not record the event and in the Epistles and discourses of Acts as well as in the
Visions of the Apocalypse it is implied. ]'>[1] ...
The hypotheses of fraud, or delusion, or
Vision, previously entertained, are discarded and ‘the intellectual atmosphere of the age’ substituted. The full glory of Christ’s Person is, of course, immeasurable: no
Vision or bodily appearance can possibly exhibit it except in faint traces. Is the
Vision therefore useless? The contrary is the very principle of the Incarnation; God revealing Himself in personal, eventful form
Peter - Paul had attained apostleship through a similar
Vision, so Peter had been ‘energized’ for his work as an apostle (
Galatians 2:8). There is here no statement that Simon received his surname on this occasion-indeed, he is already known as ‘Peter’ (or ‘Cephas’) in this connexion-but it is possible that his initial
Vision, which made him the corner-stone of the new community, established, if not for the first time, at least more completely, the custom of referring to him as ‘Peter. Peter is seen to have been the first to obtain a
Vision of the Risen Lord (
1 Corinthians 15:5); and thus from the outset he occupied a position of primacy in the community and was also first among the apostles, while St. Here he experienced his remarkable
Vision, in which God showed him that he ‘should not call any man common or unclean,’ with the result that he went freely to the house of the Gentile Cornelius, preaching that God is no respecter of persons. This
Vision gave him a solution of his difficulties, since it enabled him to resume his belief in Jesus’ Messiahship and look forward to the establishment of the new Kingdom
Jacob - ...
When sent forth by his parents to escape Esau, and to get a wife in Padan Aram, he for the first time is presented before us as enjoying God's manifestations at Bethel in his
Vision of the ladder set up on earth, and the top reaching heaven, with "Jehovah standing above, and the angels of God ascending and descending (not descending and ascending, for the earth is presupposed as already the scene of their activity) on it," typifying God's providence and grace arranging all things for His people's good through the ministry of "angels" (Genesis 28;
Hebrews 1:14). The
Vision of the two encampments of angels on either side of him prepared him for the
Vision of the Lord of angels. Reaching Bethel once more after 40 years, where he had seen the heavenly ladder, he has a
Vision of God confirming his name "Israel" and the promise of nations springing from him, and of his seed inheriting the land; He therefore rears again the stone pillar to Εl Shaddai , "God Almighty," the name whereby God had appeared to Abram also when He changed his name to Abraham
Heaven -
2 Corinthians 12:2 : the third heaven, or Paradise, regarded as God’s dwelling-place;
Philippians 2:10 : the division of the universe into things heavenly, earthly, and infernal;
Galatians 1:8 : an angel from heaven;
Romans 1:18 : God’s wrath revealed from heaven, etc. It will be sufficient, therefore, to treat our subject as it appears in each of the three divisions of the Johannine literature separately. (1) There is the current division into heavenly, earthly, and infernal (
Revelation 5:3;
Revelation 5:13). (2) The principal part of the
Vision implies a sharp contrast between heaven and earth as spheres of moral activity. It is only the new heaven and earth that the prophet’s
Vision conceives of as fit for the coming of the holy city. We have, on the one hand, a description of the earthly blessing of the risen saints and martyrs during the millennial kingdom (
Revelation 20:4-6); on the other hand, the
Vision itself supposes that those who have attained are already in heaven. The difficulty of distinguishing between symbol and the literal meaning of the
Vision makes it a hard task to sum up clearly the writer’s position. He is obviously heir to all the
Visions of the prophets and the apocalyptists, and master of them all. He seems rather to have brought all the symbols of the previous apocalyptic, from Babylonia and Egypt in the remote past down to the almost contemporary
Visions or Ezra and Baruch, under the sway of the spiritual conception of the kingdom of God
Daniel - He must have been about 84 years old when he saw the
Visions (Daniel 10-12) concerning his people, extending down to the resurrection and the last days. ...
His last recorded
Vision was in the third year of Cyrus (534 B. )...
The objection to Daniel on the ground that Susa, or at least its palace, was not built when Daniel saw the
Vision there, rests on Pliny alone, who alleges it to have been built by Darius Hystaspis
Holiness - The
Vision of the Holy Jehovah in Isaiah, which wrung from the seer the cry ‘Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips’ (
Isaiah 6:5 ), leaves the ceremonial aspect almost completely out of sight. But there is another element clearly brought out in this
Vision the majesty of the Divine holiness: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory’ (
Isaiah 6:3 )
Hopefulness - He had gained one soul, and with prophetic
Vision saw the land filled with ripened souls ready for the spiritual reaper. And thinking of the loved ones to whom His parting would be so bitter a trial, He prays for the realization of the hope that they might ultimately be granted the beatific
Vision, beholding Him in His glory (
John 16:24); then would He drink with them the fruit of the vine new in His Father’s kingdom (
Matthew 26:29)
Hymns - Only one of the hymns in the Apocalypse alludes to the situation described in the
Vision, i. ...
The Song of the living creatures
in 4:8 varies from the Sanctus of Isaiah’s
Vision which is followed in the Liturgies and the Te Deum
Altar - Apparently in later times, the requirement forbidding steps on Hebrew altars was not enforced, for in Ezekiel's
Vision of the restored Temple, the altar has three levels and many steps. ...
Ezekiel's
Vision of the restored Temple had the altar of burnt offering located in the center of the courtyard
Appreciation (of Christ) - ...
We look for appreciation from His nearest disciples, a quick obedience, a joy that has no place for fasting (
Mark 2:18), the mother’s confidence at the marriage-feast at Cana (
John 2:5), the great utterances of His forerunner the Baptist (
John 1:30;
John 3:30), the exalted
Vision of the Transfiguration (
Mark 9:5), and that Petrine outburst, repeated by all, as they neared Gethsemane—‘If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee. And it may also indicate the many successive ways of wonder, repentance, sympathy, and
Vision in which Christ speaks to each individual soul
Perfection (of Jesus) - The
Vision of faith comes first; thought comes later with its justifications. They are a measure of a man’s moral sagacity, his clearness of
Vision both of his duty and of the means of realizing it, his simplicity of spirit and freedom from vanity or self-will. Men are readily drawn aside, the lower sort by suggestions of vanity and self-importance, the higher by the
Vision of some good more quickly realized. The earthly kingdom became spiritual; the glory of Israel became universal; the way of its establishment was to be through an appeal to the honest heart’s faith in God as the highest good and the convincing
Vision of goodness; and for Himself not any success and glory, but suffering, and shame, and death. The Kingdom of loving and obedient souls could be established only on the perfect sacrifice of love and obedience, and Jesus gave Himself absolutely in response to that
Vision of faith. ’ This world, to His
Vision, was God’s world
Woman - Paul also caught Jesus'
Vision. ...
Paul's theological
Vision (
Galatians 3:28 ) was that there was no partiality among persons with God. A man of his time, he still had a
Vision toward which he strove
Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies - The figure of an opening heaven is employed at the revelation given to Ezekiel (1:1), the phenomena surrounding the Lord's baptism (
Mark 1:10 ), Stephen's
Vision of Christ (
Acts 7:56 ), and John's
Vision of the apocalypse (
Revelation 4:1 ). It was a frightful thing for Israel to have the heavens shut and the blessing of God's physical provision withheld (
Deuteronomy 11:17 ;
2 Chronicles 7:13 ;
Luke 4:25 ). Who can say to what extent angels are active today on earth? The truth might be found in Jacob's
Vision of a ladder extending from earth to heaven on which the angels of God ascended and descended (
Genesis 28:12 )
Habakkuk - Habakkuk therefore, confident that God is of purer eyes than to behold evil (
Habakkuk 1:13), sets himself in an attitude of waiting for the Lord's own solution of this perplexing apparent anomaly (
Habakkuk 2:1); Jehovah desires him accordingly, "write the
Vision" of God's retributive justice plainly, so "that he may run that readeth it," namely, "run" to tell to all the good news of the foe's doom and Judah's deliverance, or, as Grotius, run through it, i
Tribes - Conflicting opinions have been held as to how these tribal divisions arose, the traditional theory being that the different families descended from the sons of Jacob multiplied till they formed tribes. Others take the view that the history of the sons of Jacob is really a history of the various tribal communities which were combined to form the nation, and that the divisions were to a large extent geographical. Some of the tribes seem to have disappeared at an early date or were absorbed into larger communities, and the divisions tended more and more to become geographical. The OT imagery of the sealing is used to express the thought that God’s faithful people are numbered and protected on earth to the last individual, while the subsequent
Vision (
Revelation 7:9-17) points to their glory in heaven
Voice - The objectivity or otherwise of the accompanying phenomena, whether of
Vision or of sound, is to be determined by the evidence of the context. ‘Sometimes the symbol and the perception which it represents become fused in that
consciousness: and the mystic’s experience then presents itself to him as “visions” or “voices,” which we must look upon as the garment he has himself provided to veil that Reality upon which no man may look and live’ (E
Mark of the Beast - The
Vision calls John and his audience to discern the spirit of sinful humanity that accompanies the antichrist rather than to decode his identity
Joppa - Peter received the
Vision which taught him that Jew and Gentile, as spiritually equal before God, must be impartially welcomed into the Church of Christ (
Acts 10:9-16)
Grecians - " Their conversation was a new thing, a special "grace of God," tidings of which reaching the Jerusalem church constrained them to send Barnabas as far as Antioch, who "when he had seen the GRACE of God was glad" and enlisted the cooperation of Paul who had been in
Vision already called to "bear Christ's name unto the Gentiles" (
Acts 9:15)
Dry Dried Drieth - ...
Proverbs 17:22 (a) Just as the bones supply the blood with invaluable ingredients, so a happy heart supplies the spirit and the soul with radiance, vigor and
Vision
Famine - In the next
Vision (v
Go Out, Go Forth - The word also represents the “place of departure” or “exit” from the temple in Ezekiel’s
Vision (
Satan - Zechariah recorded a
Vision of “… Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him” (literally, “be his adversary”;
Theodotus, Martyr at Ancyra - Theodotus was a devout dealer in provisions. THEOTECNUS, the apostate from Christianity, was sent with ample power to enforce conformity to the imperial edicts, and began by ordering all provisions sold in the market to be first presented to the gods. The village dogs attacked the messengers, and the priest ran to drive them away, asked if they were Christians, and informed them that he had seen them in a
Vision the night before, bringing a precious treasure to him
Revelation, the Book of - It employs the language of biblical allusion and apocalyptic symbolism to express the heights and depths of the author's
Visionary experience. John's
Vision on the Island of Patmos (
Revelation 7:16 )...
III. ...
John's
Vision on the Island of Patmos (1:9-20) While in exile on Patmos, John saw the risen Lord (
Revelation 1:9-20 ). First, after designating the recipients, the risen Lord as Sender describes Himself using a portion of the
Visionary description of Him in
Revelation 1:9-20 . ...
Revelation 7:1 is actually two
Visions (
Revelation 7:1-8 ,
Revelation 7:1-8,7:9-17 ), with the second both interpreting and concluding the first. ...
In the second
Vision (
Revelation 7:9-17 ), the 144,000 have become “a great multitude, which no one could count” (NAS). First is another
Vision of the 144,000, the full number of the people of God (
Revelation 14:4 )
Transfiguration (2) - There is the hypothesis of dream-vision. One finds the substratum of real history embodied in it in the confession of Peter made previously, which was elaborated by idealizing tendency into a
Vision and attributed to the disciples (Bacon, AJTh
Oracles - Audition—the actual hearing of a voice—and Visions undoubtedly played a part in the receiving of God's words. He described himself as one whose eye was opened, one who heard God's word and saw His Vision. Nahum and Habakkuk wrote of a Vision or of seeing their oracles (Nahum 1:1 ; Habakkuk 1:1 ). Some of the scenes were external (Jeremiah 18:1-12 ), and some were Visionary (Ezekiel 37:1-14 )
Suffering - in the description of the
Vision of the Christ, ‘His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength’ (
Acts 1:16), and in the description of an angel, ‘His face was as the sun’ (
Acts 10:1). ...
In
Revelation 12:1 the woman in the
Vision is ‘arrayed with the sun
End - ...
A fourth nuance emphasizes a “designated goal,” not simply the extremity but a conclusion toward which something proceeds: “For the
Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie …” (
Vision is for many days” (
Samuel - And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open
Vision. The preciousness of the Lord's words, in this period of the church, when open
Visions were for a time suspended; the special grace shewn to Samuel in a season of general depravity, and when even the sons of Eli, who were priests of the Lord, were given up to a state of daring impiety end uncleanness; the childhood of Samuel, so particularly noted in the history, as if to encourage the youthful part of the Lord's people to be found waiting on the Lord in ordinances; all these, and more to the same purport, which this relation of the call of Samuel brings forward, would furnish much observation for improvement
Ste'Phen, - Stephen spoke as if to himself, describing the glorious
Vision; and in so doing, alone of all the speakers and writers in the New Testament except, only Christ himself, uses the expressive phrase "the Son of man
Rebuke - The most dangerous temptation to loving souls is to smooth the path for those they love and reverence even at the cost of duty or of loyalty to their highest
Vision
Cross - ...
After Constantine's
Vision of the cross in the air and the inscription, "Under this standard thou shalt conquer," a new standard was adopted, the Labarum, with a pendent cross and embroidered monogram of Christ, the first two Greek letters of His name, and Alpha and Omega (
Revelation 1:8)
Colours - The same word is used of the reddish-brown colour of the ‘red heifer’ of
Numbers 19:1-22 , and of the chestnut horse of Zechariah’s
Vision (
Numbers 1:8 , AV
Shushan - In Belshazzar's last year Daniel was at Shushan in the palace (not actually, but transported in spirit) when he saw the Vision (Daniel 8:2)
Jerusalem - Some called it Solyma, or Jerosolyma; but the general name by the Hebrews was Jeruschalem, meaning, the
Vision of peace; from Rahe, to see; and Shalom, peace
Eusebius of Alexandria, a Writer of Sermons - He uses the ordinary Eastern phrase, "Christ our God," speaks of Him as Maker of the world, as Master of the creation, as present from the beginning with the prophets, and as the Lord of Isaiah's
Vision
Abstinence - The Apocalypse, however, though a ὅρασις (vision), is lacking in the usual accompaniments of a
Vision, viz. Peter’s
Vision (
Acts 10:9-16) was preceded by hunger, but it was not a voluntary fast; nor is there any reference to fasting in the case of St. Paul’s
Visions (
Acts 16:9;
Acts 18:9 f. This view of fasting, grotesque as it appears to us, is akin to the truth that surfeiting of the body dulls the spiritual
Vision, and that the spiritual life is a rigorous discipline (cf
Jacob - Suddenly, a lonely night in Bethel, interrupted by a
Vision from God, brought reality home. Jacob saw in the
Vision the majesty and glory of God
House - Here Peter in prayer saw the
Vision (
Acts 10:9). Even still He shows Himself only to faith, through the windows of His word and the lattice of ordinances and sacraments (
John 14:21), not full
Vision (
1 Corinthians 13:12); an incentive to our looking for His coming in person (
Isaiah 33:17)
Unity - This is the
Vision which arises when the final issue is viewed from the side of human freedom and responsibility. And this is the
Vision that arises when the final issue is regarded from the side of Divine sovereignty and purpose
Balaam - We are not informed by what means the Lord communicated to Balaam his command: probably by a
Vision of the night; but, certainly, in such a way as left Balaam with full impressions on his mind, had he not heard the history of Israel before, that they were "a people blessed of the Lord. " (
Numbers 22:20-35) When we hear this impious man's confession, that "he had heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High; had seen the
Vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open
Song of Solomon - While containing a number of smaller love poems, the Song is unified by patterns of dialogue, repetition, the use of catch words, and above all, a consistent
Vision of love
Look - 7, denotes (a) a
Vision (so the associated noun horama, e
Millennium - Though not found in the Bible, the word refers to the thousand years mentioned in one of the
Visions of the book of Revelation (
Revelation 20:4-6). ...
Symbolism in Revelation...
Revelation belongs to a kind of literature known as apocalyptic, where teaching is given in the form of strange
Visions with symbolic meanings (see APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE). Readers of the first century, being familiar with that kind of literature, probably understood the
Visions without too much difficulty. ...
Thousand years reign with Christ...
Those who believe that the thousand years reign of Christ refers to his present exaltation in glory are called amillennialists (a meaning ‘without’), because they do not believe that the
Vision refers to a literal reign of Christ on earth. ...
Thousand years binding of Satan...
In the
Visions of Revelation Chapter 20 the thousand years reign of Christ seems to correspond with the thousand years of Satan’s imprisonment (
Revelation 20:1-3)
Blood - ...
Joel 2:31 (c) It is not clearly understood whether the moon will actually become red, or whether men because of strained eyes see the moon as red, or whether the tumult of earth's sorrows changes man's
Vision
Son of Man - God addresses Daniel (
Daniel 8:17) once, Ezekiel so about 80 times, to remind him of his human lowliness and frailty, as "man lower than the angels," though privileged to enjoy
Visions of the cherubim and of God Himself, "lest he should be exalted through the abundance of the revelations" (
2 Corinthians 12:7). " Another exception is John so calls Him in apocalyptic
Vision (
Revelation 1:13;
Revelation 14:14), corresponding to the Old Testament apocalypse (
Daniel 7:13)
Balaam - He conceives that the prophet had been accustomed to revelations, and that he used to receive them in
Visions, or in dreams of the night. As to what passed between him and his ass, when that animal was miraculously enabled to speak to its master, commentators are divided in their opinions; whether it really and literally happened as Moses relates it, or whether it be an allegory only, or was the mere imagination or
Vision of Balaam
Ezekiel - He acted some of his messages with very unorthodox behaviour (Ezekiel 4; Ezekiel 5;
Ezekiel 12:1-16), gave the most striking and colourful illustrations (Ezekiel 16;
Ezekiel 17:1-21; Ezekiel 23), and recounted the strangest
Visions (
Ezekiel 1:4-28; Ezekiel 8; Ezekiel 9; Ezekiel 10; Ezekiel 11; Ezekiel 37). ...
Contents of the book of Ezekiel...
After seeing a
Vision of the glorious chariot-throne of God (1:1-28), Ezekiel was called by God to take his message to a people who, God warned, would be very stubborn (2:1-3:27). ...
In a fresh series of
Visions Ezekiel was taken, as it were, to Jerusalem, where he saw people engaging in idolatry in the temple (8:1-18). ...
In Ezekiel’s perfectly reconstructed national life, land for priests, Levites and king was justly allocated, and full provision was made for all the national religious festivals (45:1-46:24)
Palm Tree - ...
The supreme expression of the palm as the symbol of triumphant homage is in the Apocalyptic
Vision, where the innumerable multitude who nave come through the great tribulation, and who serve God day and night, stand before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands (
Revelation 7:9;
Revelation 7:14)
Belief (2) - To them it was given to toil for the race, and the
Vision they saw and the moral and spiritual truth they won became the inheritance of other men, and through them were conserved for the good of the race. They were needed to make the new departure, they were the first to see the
Vision, they made the discovery, or thought out the truth; but those unfitted to be pioneers may be quite able to think over again what is made plain to them by him who was the first to think out that truth. Plato, Aristotle, Kant opened out paths on which the feet of others may safely tread, and we may rise to the height of the
Vision of Dante, and rejoice in the universality of Shakespeare, though these would have remained undiscovered countries had not those great personalities opened the gates of entrance to us. Some have been great in action, some in thought, some in invention, some in power of poetic or prophetic
Vision, and some in other ways. So the
Vision grew; and as one personality after another revealed to men the possible synthesis of the ideal greatness of a perfect personality, men were educated to perceive what they ought to demand in the ideal of a perfect personality in whom they might completely and absolutely trust
Paul (2) - Paul and Christ, or—what almost amounts to the same thing—between the Epistles (as represented by their central group) and the Gospels, as the two main divisions of the Christian half of the Bible. So the
Vision on the road to Damascus held his fascinated gaze throughout his career. —The
Vision that he saw was of Christ glorified. —The
Vision was for him; it appealed personally and directly to him; and he responded with all the ardour of his being. —We go back to the Damascus
Vision. Paul’s own experience the
Vision of the exalted Christ was, as it were, clasped to his heart
Heaven -
2 Corinthians 12:2 : the third heaven, or Paradise, regarded as God’s dwelling-place;
Philippians 2:10 : the division of the universe into things heavenly, earthly, and infernal;
Galatians 1:8 : an angel from heaven;
Romans 1:18 : God’s wrath revealed from heaven, etc. It will be sufficient, therefore, to treat our subject as it appears in each of the three divisions of the Johannine literature separately. (1) There is the current division into heavenly, earthly, and infernal (
Revelation 5:3;
Revelation 5:13). (2) The principal part of the
Vision implies a sharp contrast between heaven and earth as spheres of moral activity. It is only the new heaven and earth that the prophet’s
Vision conceives of as fit for the coming of the holy city. We have, on the one hand, a description of the earthly blessing of the risen saints and martyrs during the millennial kingdom (
Revelation 20:4-6); on the other hand, the
Vision itself supposes that those who have attained are already in heaven. The difficulty of distinguishing between symbol and the literal meaning of the
Vision makes it a hard task to sum up clearly the writer’s position. He is obviously heir to all the
Visions of the prophets and the apocalyptists, and master of them all. He seems rather to have brought all the symbols of the previous apocalyptic, from Babylonia and Egypt in the remote past down to the almost contemporary
Visions or Ezra and Baruch, under the sway of the spiritual conception of the kingdom of God
Paul - Ananias, a disciple living in Damascus, was informed by a
Vision of the change that had happened to Saul, and was sent to him to open his eyes and admit him by baptism into the Christian church (9:11-16). ...
As he waited at Troas for indications of the will of God as to his future movements, he saw, in the
Vision of the night, a man from the opposite shores of Macedonia standing before him, and heard him cry, "Come over, and help us" (
Acts 16:9 ). Paul recognized in this
Vision a message from the Lord, and the very next day set sail across the Hellespont, which separated him from Europe, and carried the tidings of the gospel into the Western world
Mark, the Gospel of - Mark depicted their partial spiritual
Vision by recording the unique miracle of Jesus healing the blind man in two stages (
Mark 8:22-25 ). Although the disciples saw the messianic secret, their
Vision was not be focused until the resurrection
Tree of Life - In the prophet’s
Vision, on each side of the river grow all trees bearing new fruits according to their months, which shall be for food, and their leaves for healing
Heart - The beatific
Vision is reserved for those whose hearts are ‘pure’ (
Matthew 5:8 ; cf
Fire - Also akin to Old Testament imagery is John's
Vision of Jesus with eyes "like blazing fire" (
Revelation 1:14 ; 2:18 ; 19:12 ), again in judgment contexts. In
Visions of God in his glory in both Old and New Testaments, fire is a regular phenomenon
Neighbor - The
Vision of Zechariah for the final days included the refreshing fellowship of neighborliness (3:10)
Colours - ...
The brilliant hues of the foundations, walls, gates, and streets of the New Jerusalem, and those of the robes of the inhabitants, suggest that ‘the beauty of colour … will contribute its part to the blessedness of
Vision in the future world’ (Delitzsch, Iris, 61)
Deceit, Deception, Guile - They could not conceive the possibility of a revision of life in the light of a larger and nobler ideal of righteousness. But the
Vision of moral beauty must either captivate or blind
a'Braham - (
Genesis 12:6 ) Here he received in
Vision from Jehovah the further revelation that this was the land which his descendants should inherit
Paradise - This with other groups of fundamental motifs existed in primitive Hebrew religion, possibly in a form derived from Babylonian religion, but was taken up and used by the prophets as the form into which their
Visions of the coming Kingdom of God were cast. 4: ‘the paradise of “vision” and of God’s command’; xlii
Print - Tertullian, Ambrose, Cyril, and others suppose that he did, but it is psychologically more probable that Thomas rose above such a material test; the presence of his Master, and the proof of His omniscience, shown in His knowledge of what Thomas had said on the former occasion, were sufficient; with a bound he rose to the
Vision of highest faith (so Meyer, Alford, Westcott, Edersheim, Dods, et al
Publishing - Just as our eyes cannot see where all is dark, nor yet again in a blaze of brightest light, but as a blending of the two is necessary for physical
Vision, so is the law in the spiritual life
Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy - ...
The second classical text is
Numbers 12:6-8 : "When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in
Visions, I speak to him in dreams. " Other prophets would receive no less a revelation from God, but in their case the means God would use to communicate his word would be the less direct, somewhat enigmatic form of dreams and
Visions. ...
Ezekial, like Isaiah, was given a
Vision of the greatness of God and his glory. )" The term is used in six out of a total of thirteen times in the Old Testament to refer to Samuel, with the only occurrence in the prophetic books proper coming in
Isaiah 30:10 "They say to the seers, See no more
Visions!'" In
2 Kings 17:13 seer is used in parallelism with prophet, thus also showing the equation of the two terms. ...
Another participial form of the verb "to have a
Vision" or "to see a
Vision" is hozeh [
Amos 7:12 ). A nabi
was one who was called of God to announce the divine message, while a hozeh
5 was given messages mainly in
Visions. ...
The fourth way that God communicated with his prophets was the extensive use of
Visions, dreams, and elaborate imagery. ...
The
Visions God gave did not come at any special time. In some cases the prophet was transported in a
Vision to places far distant from the locale where he was (
Deuteronomy 13:2 ; 11:24 ). One outstanding case of unbelief was the instance of the ungodly aide to the king who refused to believe God's miraculous provision of grain in the midst of a frightening siege (
Joshua 1:1 )
Paul - Paul had the
Vision, mentioned in
Acts 22:17 , while he was now at Jerusalem this second time after his conversion. Paul was there, a
Vision appeared to him in the night: "There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help up. Paul knew this
Vision to be a command from Heaven, and in obedience to it immediately sailed from Troas to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis, a city of Thrace; and thence he went to Philippi, the principal city of that part of Macedonia. Paul was encouraged in a
Vision, to persevere in his exertions to convert the inhabitants of Corinth; and although he met with great opposition and disturbance from the unbelieving Jews, and was accused by them before Gallio, the Roman governor of Achaia, he continued there a year and six months, "teaching the word of God
Transportation And Travel - Jacob's sons carried their grain purchases from Egypt to Canaan on donkey back (
Genesis 42:26 ); Jesse sent David and a donkey loaded with provisions to Saul's court (
1 Samuel 16:20 ); and Nehemiah became incensed when he saw Judeans transporting grain on donkeys during the sabbath (
Nehemiah 13:15 ). Each of these means of transport, however, fits the prophet's
Vision of a glorious procession on its way to Jerusalem rather than the normal groupings of travelers along the international route. Isaiah's
Vision of the return (
Isaiah 66:20 ) must have struck a poignant note for the exiles who had seen their ancestors depicted in the Assyrian relief
Revelation, Book of - At most, the first two of these theologians were apparently inclined to recognize a division of sacred writings similar to that of Jerome. Such a view is, however, open to serious objections, because of the similarities, if not identities, existing between Revelation and other apocalyptic literature of the period, as well as because of the evidences of composite character of the writing, implying sources of different origins and dates, such as the various breaks in the process of the
Vision (the lack of any single historical point of view is seen by a comparison of
Revelation 12:3 ;
Revelation 13:1 ;
Revelation 17:3 , in an effort to identify historically the two breaks, or in a comparison of
Revelation 11:1-13 with
Revelation 17:11 ). These are of various forms ( a ) The theory according to which an original work has been interpolated with apocalyptic material of various dates (
Revelation 7:1-17 ;
Revelation 11:1-13 ;
Revelation 12:1-17 ;
Revelation 13:17 ) and subjected to several revisions. ( c ) The theory according to which Revelation is composed of three sources, each of which has subdivisions, all worked together by a Christian redactor. The
Vision of the Messianic Kingdom (chs
Ezekiel - Ezekiel and Daniel have a mutual resemblance in the
Visions and images in their prophecies. His prophecies against seven (the number for completeness) foreign nations stand between these two divisions, and were uttered in the interval between the knowledge of Nebuchadnezzar's siege (
Ezekiel 24:2, etc. ...
(3) A year and two months later a
Vision of the temple polluted by Tammuz or Adonis worship; God's consequent scattering of fire over the city, and forsaking the temple to reveal Himself to an inquiring people in exile; purer, happier times follow: Ezekiel 8-11. ...
(9) After 13 years, the last
Vision, the order and beauty of the restored kingdom: Ezekiel 40-48
Wages - Job eventually learns this in his
Vision of God (38-42). They now await the time of the full payment of the Spirit without measure, when they will enter the glorious liberty of the children of God (
Romans 8:21 ), experience the beatific
Vision, and partake of the divine nature (
Revelation 22:4 ), God himself being their exceeding great reward (
Genesis 15:1 )
Praise - ‘This calling into God’s light … is thus fitly chosen as the characteristic act of Him whose excellencies the Christians were to tell forth, because it was on their use of the realm of
Vision thus opened to them that their power of exhibiting Him to men in grateful praise would depend’ (Hort, ad loc. ’ Enlargement of the ascription is found in Jude, and above all in the central
Vision of the Apocalypse when the sevenfold theme marks the highest range of praise
Mary - They found the sepulchre empty, but saw the "vision of angels" (
Matthew 28:5 )
Prophesy - While the formula “The word of the Lord came
” is used literally hundreds of times in the Old Testament, there is no real indication as to the manner in which it came— whether it came through the thought-processes, through a
Vision, or in some other way
Book(s) - ...
Also mentioned in 1,2Chronicles are books of various prophets: the “Book of Samuel the Seer” (
1 Chronicles 29:29 ), the “Book of Nathan the prophet” (
1 Chronicles 29:29 ;
2 Chronicles 9:29 ), the “Book of Gad the Seer” (
1 Chronicles 29:29 ), the “Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite” (
2 Chronicles 9:29 ), the “Visions of Iddo the Seer against Jeroboam the Son of Nebat” (
2 Chronicles 9:29 ), the “Book of Shemaiah the Prophet and Iddo the Seer” (
2 Chronicles 12:15 ), the “Story of the Prophet Iddo” (
2 Chronicles 13:22 ), the “Book of Jehu the Son of Hanani” (
2 Chronicles 20:34 ), the “Acts of Uzziah” (
2 Chronicles 26:22 ; written by Isaiah), the “Vision of Isaiah the Prophet” (
2 Chronicles 32:32 ), and the “Saying of the Seers” (
2 Chronicles 33:19 )
Unclean And Clean - So Peter's
Vision (
Acts 10:11-15) of the "sheet bound by four (the number for worldwide extension) rope ends (archais , Alford) containing all kinds of four footed beasts, creeping things and fowls," of all which he was commanded to eat, was the appropriate type of the abolition of distinction, not only between meats (compare
1 Timothy 4:4;
Matthew 15:11) but between Jew and Gentile
Lamentations, Book of - 3 with late Psalms, the accumulation of pictorial metaphors, the denial of
Vision to prophets, the reliance on Egypt (
Lamentations 4:17 ), are given (Löhr, Com . is placed in the third division of the OT Canon
Lamb, Lamb of God - In the heavenly
Vision of chapter 4, the choir of twenty-four elders and four living creatures worship the "Lord God, " who sits on the throne, for he is worthy (v
Image of God - Thus biblical eschatology envisions the restoration of all three of these relationships in a world where God's people may experience unhindered fellowship with him (1619110855_7 ) because the Edenic curse has been removed (
Revelation 22:3 ). This glorious biblical
Vision of a time when creatures will fully reflect the Creator's splendor ought to provide strong encouragement to Christians who presently reflect God's likeness in an imperfect yet improving manner
Alexander - 11:8, section 5) says that Alexander meeting the high priest Jaddua (
Nehemiah 12:11-22) said that at Dium in Macedonia he had a divine
Vision so habited, inviting him to Asia and promising him success
Eternity - the world empires of Daniel’s
Vision), followed by the Messianic age
Mary - Finding it empty, she waited beside it weeping, and was rewarded with the first
Vision of the risen Lord (
John 20:11-18, cf
Stephen - Its members condemned him to be guilty of blasphemy: he had justified, not denied or even softened down, his previous utterances; they rushed upon him, and, when he stated that he saw the heavens opened and Jesus standing to welcome him on the right hand of God, the
Vision did, in this view, but increase the blasphemy, so they dragged him out of the city and stoned him
Son of Man - The
Vision of Stephen gives a wider and deeper significance to the Messianic activities of the ascended Jesus. ...
There are two passages in the NT where the words ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου are found (
Revelation 1:13;
Revelation 14:14) both in descriptive accounts of the Seer’s
Visions. the use of the Danielic
Visions in
2 Esdras 13:3 ff
Lamb - ...
Many surprises await one who, familiar only with the significance of the Lamb in the Levitical sacrifices, traces the new forms in which the figure made itself at home in the
Visions of the Seer of Patmos. As the
Vision unfolds, several startling paradoxes are thrown into the foreground
Fulness - Paul lifts up his magnificent truth of the ‘Cosmic Christ’ and his
Vision of a ‘Christianized universe
Luke - This Gospel contains many things which are not found in the other Gospels; among which are the following: the birth of John the Baptist; the Roman census in Judea; the circumstances attending Christ's birth at Bethlehem; the
Vision granted to the shepherds; the early testimony of Simeon and Anna; Christ's conversation with the doctors in the temple when he was twelve years old; the parables of the good Samaritan, of the prodigal son, of Dives and Lazarus, of the wicked judge, and of the publican and Pharisee; the miraculous cure of the woman who had been bowed down by illness eighteen years; the cleansing of the ten lepers; and the restoring to life the son of a widow at Nain; the account of Zaccheus, and of the penitent thief; and the particulars of the journey to Emmaus
Type - The fact, then, of a preconcerted connection between two series of events, is capable of being established in three ways: and the historical types may be accordingly arranged in three principal divisions. The illustration, then, to be derived from the historical types of the Old Testament, is found diffused over the whole period, which extends from the creation of the world, to the time when
Vision and prophecy were sealed
Mount Mountain - -In the first of these passages (
Acts 7:30;
Acts 7:38) the martyr Stephen recalls to his murderers’ minds Moses’
Vision of the Burning Bush (
Exodus 3:1 ff. The contrast between the two Dispensations is thus emphasized: Sinai, sensible, provisional, and accompanied by the physical phenomena of the world; Zion, ideal, super-sensible, abiding, final, and pertaining to the world above
Ptolemae'us, - In the strong language of Daniel "The robbers of the people exalted themselves to establish the
Vision
Mount Mountain - -In the first of these passages (
Acts 7:30;
Acts 7:38) the martyr Stephen recalls to his murderers’ minds Moses’
Vision of the Burning Bush (
Exodus 3:1 ff. The contrast between the two Dispensations is thus emphasized: Sinai, sensible, provisional, and accompanied by the physical phenomena of the world; Zion, ideal, super-sensible, abiding, final, and pertaining to the world above
Linus (1) - This story has a good deal of affinity with that told by Leucius of a
Vision of our Lord during His crucifixion seen by St. , that our present Latin Linus must be later than Jerome; but he does not seem to have appreciated the conservative character of Jerome's revision or to have consulted the older versions
Mary - Finding it empty, she waited beside it weeping, and was rewarded with the first
Vision of the risen Lord (
John 20:11-18, cf
Son of Man - The
Vision of Stephen gives a wider and deeper significance to the Messianic activities of the ascended Jesus. ...
There are two passages in the NT where the words ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου are found (
Revelation 1:13;
Revelation 14:14) both in descriptive accounts of the Seer’s
Visions. the use of the Danielic
Visions in
2 Esdras 13:3 ff
Fulness - Paul lifts up his magnificent truth of the ‘Cosmic Christ’ and his
Vision of a ‘Christianized universe
Religious Experience - His coming brought a new morning to the world (
Luke 1:78), and originated a new
Vision of righteousness and a new sunrise type of religious experience in the souls of men. Christian experience, as depicted in the NT, includes a new intellectual
Vision, a radical shifting of the emotional centre, and a rectification and strengthening of the will. With the ‘Yea’ his eyes open, and he gets new
Vision
Paul - This first visit to Jerusalem is that mentioned
Acts 9:26, at which occurred the
Vision (
Acts 22:17-18). He had a
Vision later than that of
Acts 22:17-18, namely, in
2 Corinthians 12:1, etc. After staying only 15 days at Jerusalem, wherein there was not time for his deriving his gospel commission from Peter with whom he abode, having had a
Vision that he should depart to the Gentiles (
1 Corinthians 9:1), and being plotted against by Hellenistic Jews (
Acts 9:29), he withdrew to the seaport Caesarea (
Acts 9:30), thence by sea to Tarsus in Cilicia (
Galatians 1:21), and thence to Syria
Eschatology - Modern writers generally hold that the value of prophecy consists primarily in its insight into spiritual truths, and only indirectly in its foresight into the future; but to the Jew, a coincidence between a prophetic prediction and a subsequent event was a signal proof of Divine inspiration, for it showed that God had ‘unveiled’ before the
Vision of His prophet some detail of that future which was already predestined and lying spread out before His all-seeing eyes (cf. Daniel’s
Vision of the Son of Man) are still awaiting fulfilment
Reserve - He aimed at the heart, the seat and source of faith, where the
Vision and the love of goodness, with their dynamic impulse, are
Wisdom of Christ - Apollinaris denied to Christ a real human soul; but Aquinas virtually does the same when he asserts that the soul of Christ was created mature, in the full enjoyment of free-will and of the Beatific
Vision, and possessed of wisdom and knowledge practically coextensive with the Divine
Son of Man - In one of his night
Visions, the prophet saw “one like a son of man” (NAS) come on the clouds of heaven to appear before the throne of God. Scholars are divided over whether the Son of man of Daniel's
Vision should be seen as an angel, as the Messiah, or as all of Israel
Hades - Jesus' reference to the future in
Matthew 16:18 concurs with Revelation's
Vision of Satan's final attack on God's people (19:19; 20:7-9)
Service - ’ Both He who through suffering should redeem the people, and the people themselves, idealized as they were in the
Vision of the seer, were to serve
Beauty - But those who were then eye-witnesses of His majesty (
2 Peter 1:16) tell us that the glorious
Vision surpassed all description
Pilate - 2)
Vision and message
Ark - Nevertheless, universal terms in Scripture are not always to be taken mathematically, and in the
Vision of Peter, the phrase παντα τα τετραποδα της γης ,— all the four-footed beasts of the earth, must be understood of varii generis quadrupedes, as Schleusner paraphrases it
Alexander - As soon, therefore, as I perceived this habit, I recollected the
Vision, and understood that my undertaking was favoured by God, and that under his protection I might expect prosperity
Praise - It is the song of those who are healed of their sicknesses, or forgiven their sins; of Apostles who mediate on the gospel message and salvation through Christ; of those who rehearse the glories of the New Jerusalem as seen in apocalyptic
Vision
Job, Book of - ...
The testing, all came from God: it was He who introduced Job to the notice of Satan, in the wonderful
Vision of the unseen, where the 'sons of God' presented themselves before God
Philip - ...
(5) With the pathetic personal appeal to him which this dulness of spiritual
Vision called forth (
John 14:9), Philip disappears from the Gospel story
Religion (2) - ’ For although, as Oman so well shows (Vision and Authority, p. 81), ‘the supreme religious fact is the individual whose capacity of
Vision is the channel of authority,’ yet if truth is ultimately one, it must proceed by way of revelation from some objective source. To this end He spoke in parables that they might not understand on any other conditions’ (Oman,
Vision and Authority, p. But His yoke is easy, because it brings the whole life, love, and strength under contribution to a reasonable service; so that ‘I ought’ is transmuted into ‘I must,’ and the struggling life of division becomes the soaring life of dedication
Apocalypse - ]'>[1] The source, as also the end or object, of ἀποκάλυψις is God or Jesus Christ, and the mode may be
Vision or ecstasy (
2 Corinthians 12:1). As with every prophet, the end is within the
Vision of the writer.
Visions of Judgment, composing the body of the book (chs. 7, 11, 14, and 19, with
Visions of the victory and bliss of the faithful. ...
(a)Visions of God and Christ respectively performing and revealing, chs. He describes the conflict between the worshippers or the Beast and the followers of the Lamb, and his
Vision of the wrath of God in seven bowls, chs. , Joel, and generally all the portions of the OT which describe
Visions of God or offer pictures of bliss or woe), the book leaves the reader with a strong impression of its spiritual unity
Isaiah, Book of - Thus he says:
2 Kings 20:1-212 ‘For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his
Vision’;
Isaiah 49:23 ‘In his days the sun went backward; and he added life to the king’;
Isaiah 49:24 ‘By a spirit of might be saw the end, and comforted the mourners in Sion’;
Isaiah 49:25 ‘For ever he declared the things that should be, and hidden things before they came. ’ Possibly the last clause of
Isaiah 49:22 refers to the title ‘The
Vision of Isaiah’ (
Isaiah 1:1 ); certainly
Isaiah 1:23 refers to the narrative of Isaiah 38 (=
2 Kings 20:1-21 ), and
Isaiah 1:24 f. There is no reason for believing that the present arrangement of this matter, even within the several booklets, goes back to Isaiah himself; the division into chapters and verses is of course of very much later origin, and in several cases does violence to the original connexion, either by uniting, as in ch
Paul the Apostle - Several doxological statements capture Paul's majestic
Vision. God granted him special cognitive grace, an authoritative didactic
Vision, commensurate with his task (see Paul's references to "the grace given me" in
Romans 12:3 ;
Grace - Here God is not simply a great First Cause: first in time, foremost in space; He is rather the background and dynamic force of man’s inner being, and, for its sake, of all created being; enfolding and comprehending it, giving it its origin, reason of existence, unity, completeness, final end; the envelope of the whole by which the parts do their best and issue in their most fruitful results, so that the soul is a harmony of linked forces,* Zechariah, Theology of - ), references to Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the Davidic governor, encouragement to rebuild the temple, and a mixture of oracles and Visions. The prophet also sees iniquity and wickedness being transported from Judah to Babylon in the Vision of the measuring basket (5:5-11). ...
See also Haggai, Theology of ; Israel ; Malachi, Theology of ; Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy ; Vision(s) ...
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Vision of His glory (
Matthew 17:1-13 ||): in Gethsemane He opened to the same three the door of His grief (
Matthew 26:36-46): He told His disciples of the stern struggle with temptation in the wilderness of Judaea. The foreboding of death (‘knowing that he would depart out of this world’) threatened to draw away His mind, as also the
Vision of a transcendent glory (‘that he would depart unto the Father’) imperilled His attachment; but neither the excess of grief nor the ecstasy of gladness availed to weaken His fidelity to those whom He had chosen; ‘having loved his own, he loved them unto the end’ (
John 13:1)
Habakkuk, Theology of - Habakkuk, however, consistently uses the imperfect tense to emphasize progressive action, vividly showing that he sees those fortune events happening before his very eyes in a
Vision of faith
Body - Reference to the eye expresses interest in
Vision, not in the physical organ
Restitution -
156), and when Jesus, after His transfiguration, forbade His disciples to tell any one of their
Vision of Moses and Elijah on the mount, they asked Him, ‘Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?’ (
Matthew 17:10; cf
Isaiah - How much further was Isaiah’s doctrine of the future developed? Was he the creator of those ideas more particularly summed up in the term ‘Messianic,’ which exercised so powerful an influence in the later periods of Judaism, and which are doubtless among those most intimately connected with the prophet in the minds of the majority of students of the Bible? In particular, was the
Vision (
Isaiah 9:1-6 ) of the Prince of Peace with world-wide dominion his? Or, to take another detail, did he hold that Zion itself was invincible, even though hostile hosts should approach it? These are questions that have been raised and have not yet received a decisive answer
John the Baptist - It may be that John's
Vision of the Messiah varied so much from what he heard and saw in Jesus, that he came to question if Jesus were really the Christ (
Matthew 11:1-2 ;
Luke 7:18 )
Nahum, Theology of - ...
The interweaving judgment- and salvation-oracles are followed by a prophetic
Vision in which Nahum describes the future downfall of the city as if he were there. The frenzy of staccato
Visions, of war and sharp insults gives way to calm, mournful expression
Egypt - Joseph, however, feared to enter Judaea because of Archelaus, Herod’s son and successor; and in obedience to a second
Vision directed his course to Galilee, and settled at Nazareth (
Matthew 2:22 f
Judaizing - The
Vision of the sheet, with the clean and unclean animals, showed that the Apostle’s act was a new departure, requiring special and Divine sanction; and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, prior to baptism, was needed to teach him that he might initiate his converts into the Christian Church by that sacrament. In the First Epistle he had dealt with the divisions in that Church (see Divisions)
Arnobius - The sight, however, of the martyrdoms which followed the edict of Nicomedia appears speedily to have touched him; and a dream or
Vision (says St
Attributes of Christ - As in dealing with certain passages the extent of the Kenosis will weigh greatly, the present arrangement must be taken as largely provisional. ...
St John identified the Divine Person of Isaiah’s
Vision with Christ (
John 12:41)
Amos - The third section contains the
Visions of Amos (7-9), which may have been the earliest revelations through the prophet. The
Visions were central to his call experience. Aware of the awesome reality of human sin and divine judgment, these
Visions shaped his prophetic messages (
Amos 7:1-3 ,
Amos 7:1-3,7:4-6 ,
Amos 7:4-6,7:7-9 ;
Amos 8:1-3 ;
Amos 9:1-4 ). The
Visions: Seeing God Properly Reveals Both His Judgment and His Mercy (
Amos 7:1-9:15 ). A person transformed by a
Vision of God sees people and things as they really are (
Amos 7:14-17 )
Angel - Cherubim and seraphim make their most memorable appearances in the
Visions of Ezekiel (
Ezekiel 1:4-28 ;
Ezekiel 10:3-22 ) and Isaiah (
Ezekiel 6:2-6 ). Seraphim appear only in Isaiah's
Vision and there attend God's throne and voice praises. Perhaps most importantly, a schema which envisions the better angels communing with God and the lesser ones ministering to humanity has no foundation in the Bible. The most prominent exceptions are the heavenly
Visions of Isaiah and Zechariah. The Apocalypse of John in its
Visionary nature, apocalyptic style, and reference to angels is comparable to parts of Daniel, Zechariah, and Isaiah
Egypt - Joseph, however, feared to enter Judaea because of Archelaus, Herod’s son and successor; and in obedience to a second
Vision directed his course to Galilee, and settled at Nazareth (
Matthew 2:22 f
Vigilantius - He wrote with a certain zeal for religion; but was led astray by the praise of men, and presumed beyond his strength; and being a man of elegant speech but not trained in discerning the sense of the Scriptures, interpreted in a perverse manner the second
Vision of Daniel, and put forth other works of no value, which must be placed in the catalogue of heretical writings
Poet - No doubt one bond between them and Him was that directness of
Vision and of thought and speech which characterized both. ‘The one,’ he says, ‘gives utterance to a far-off, unattainable dream or wish—the other is the expression of perfect insight and knowledge; it is not an aspiration after a glimpse of God’s working in nature, but a clear unbounded
Vision of that working. ’ Thus is the Divinity of Jesus seen most plainly in His exquisite naïveté, the simpleness rather than the grandeur of His poetic
Vision; and we learn of Him ‘not by a planet’s rush but a rose’s birth
Prophet - But while the Church thus early classified the redemptive activities of our Lord under this threefold division, it must not be assumed that the Jews of His own time had reached this full conception. If Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel were all introduced to their prophetic career by a
Vision granted and a voice heard (
Isaiah 42:1, Jeremiah 1:4-10, Ezekiel 3:10-14), so Jesus commenced His ministry by receiving at His baptism a
Vision from heaven and by hearing His Father’s voice. With clear
Vision He was able to follow throughout future time the workings of the principles He taught, and was able to state as a matter of certain knowledge that their adoption would be universal
Jerusalem - Although painfully aware of the transgressions of the city (1:21-23), he nevertheless retained a hopeful
Vision for its future (2:3). In the Synoptic Gospels Jerusalem is first mentioned in connection with the birth stories of Jesus: Zechariah's
Vision in the temple (
Luke 1:5-23 ), the visit of the Magi (
Matthew 2:1-12 ), and the presentation of the infant Jesus (
Luke 2:22-38 )
Light - As the functions of the physical life depend largely upon the soundness of the organs of
Vision, by means of which men move safely and freely in the outside world, so the mental and moral health of man is bound up with the condition of his inner life. The hoarding temper, which absorbs men in outward possessions, is pronounced by Jesus to be a flaw in the moral
Vision, a speck that blurs ‘the light that is in thee,’ i
Grace - Here God is not simply a great First Cause: first in time, foremost in space; He is rather the background and dynamic force of man’s inner being, and, for its sake, of all created being; enfolding and comprehending it, giving it its origin, reason of existence, unity, completeness, final end; the envelope of the whole by which the parts do their best and issue in their most fruitful results, so that the soul is a harmony of linked forces,*
Messiah - ...
In the exilic and postexilic ages, the expectation of a coming Messiah came into sharper focus, commencing with Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's Vision of a Messiah who would combine the traits of royalty and priestly dignity (Jeremiah 33:14-18 ; Ezekiel 46:1-8 ; see, too, Zechariah 4:1-14 ; Zechariah 6:13 )
Truth - John offers the chief example of the revelation of truth being given by direct
Vision, and in his Apocalypse he shows how he received in this way the knowledge of things present and future when he was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day. Paul claimed that he also was indebted to
Visions for knowledge that he had received, and for the hearing of ‘unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter’ (
James 3:13-143)
Reproach (2) - ’ The writer’s idea appears to be, not only that by identifying himself with his despised people Moses took upon himself a burden of contempt and suffering resembling that which was afterwards borne by Christ on our behalf, but that he had Christ prophetically in view—saw Him afar off, even as Father Abraham did (
John 8:56), and was strengthened by the
Vision to run his own race with patience (cf
Macedonia -
Acts 16:9-10 describes the dream
Vision that came to Paul in Troas: a Macedonian appeared to him and invited him to Macedonia
Spirituality - When a Christian mixes the Christian construal with other construals (such as a materialistic conception of the world), then there is a kind of double
Vision that leads to conflicts, hypocrisy, and the like (see
Matthew 6:19-24 )
Luke (2) - Paul saw a
Vision of his companion of the previous day, who appeared to be addressing him in the words of
Acts 16:9; and, in accordance with the belief of the time, considered—who shall say wrongly?—that the Spirit had spoken through this dream
Fruit - Paul) with the ‘two olive trees’ of Zechariah 4; and
Revelation 6:13 in its mention of a fig-tree casting her unripe figs in the spring tempests recalls
Isaiah 34:4, Revelation 14:14-20 is a
Vision of the harvest and vintage of the earth when the grain and the grapes are fully ripe
Triumphs - In the same triumphant attitude, the Apostle John beheld in
Vision those who had overcome by the blood of the Lamb, standing "before the throne, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands,"...
Revelation 7:9
Eagle - Jeremiah when he beheld in
Vision the march of Nebuchadnezzar cried, "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind
Christ, Christology - Jesus as anointed Messiah embodies these royal and priestly functions and consciously sets his
Vision on fulfilling Old Testament suffering and glorification typologies in the cross and resurrection (
Matthew 16:21 ). In the parable of the children in the marketplace (
Matthew 11:16-19 ) Jesus declares with authority his right to invite outcasts to open table fellowship, thereby going beyond nationalist and ethnic interests to include all who will eat with this friend of tax collectors and sinners (implicitly fulfilling the
Vision of
Isaiah 49:5-13 )
Temple of Jerusalem - Ezekiel's
Vision of the new Jerusalem Temple after the Exile (Ezekiel 40-43 ) is idealistic and was perhaps never realized in Zerubbabel's rebuilding of the Temple, but many of its details would have reflected Solomon's Temple in which Ezekiel probably ministered as a priest before being deported to Babylon in 597 B. At the division of the kingdoms, Jeroboam set up rival sanctuaries at Bethel and Dan which drew worshipers away from Jerusalem for two hundred years. Ezekiel's temple
Vision had considerable influence on the new Temple (Ezekiel 40-42 ), so that Zerubbabel's Temple perhaps was mounted on a platform and measured about 100 feet by 100 feet with the interior dimensions being virtually the same as those of Solomon's Temple
Revelation of John, the - 30, section 1 he quotes the beast's number 666 (
Revelation 13:18) as in all the old copies, and orally confirmed to him by persons who had seen John, adding "we do not hazard a confident theory as to Antichrist's name, for if it had been necessary that his name should be proclaimed openly at this present time it would have been declared by him who saw the apocalyptic
Vision, for it was seen not long ago, but almost in our generation, toward the end of Domitian's reign. He probably wrote out the
Visions immediately after seeing them (
Revelation 1:2;
Revelation 1:9;
Revelation 10:4). No early father held the first theory; few but rationalists hold it, who limit John's
Vision to his own age, pagan Rome's persecutions, and its consequently anticipated destruction
Ideal - No man will find delight in that
Vision of God which Jesus promises (v. The Kingdom of God in the
Vision of many earnest dreamers and workers of our own days is the result of a social revolution brought about by political activity
Restoration - His need of mental enlargement, given later by means of the
Vision (
Acts 10:9-33), to enable him to believe in the possibility of Gentile salvation, is decisive against such an interpretation. When once the holy will of the Father, in its might and energy and Divine persistence, is realized, the Christian man may at least ‘rest in hope’ of an issue beyond our farthest
Vision
Universalism (2) - below]'>[2]2 Yet we feel bound to hold that it is deeper spiritual
Vision and not simply lowered logical acumen that makes the NT writers—conceivably, sometimes, at the cost of systematic coherence—hail Christ as Saviour of all men. Still, the question recurs here, too, whether the spirit and inner drift of such words—words spoken on the mountain-tops of spiritual
Vision—can be satisfied by anything less than their full meaning
Lord's Supper. (i.) - There was no open
Vision. To say that Jesus could not have instituted the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, because He looked for a speedy realization of the Kingdom, is to deny that He had the complete
Vision of the destiny of the Servant of the Lord whose function is assumed by the Son of Man, whereas it seems certain that He foretold a spiritual inheritance among the Gentiles in return for His faithful service even unto death (
Isaiah 42:1 ff
Lamentations - ...
The second elegy (Lamentations 2) dwells on the city's destruction, her breach through which like a sea the foe poured in, the famine, the women eating their little children (fulfilling
Deuteronomy 28:53), the priest and prophet slain in the sanctuary, the king and princes among the Gentiles, the law no more, the past vanity of the prophets forbearing to discover Zion's iniquity, retributively punished by the present absence of
Vision from Jehovah (
Lamentations 2:9;
Lamentations 2:14)
Hope - ,
Philippians 3:21 ), ushering in for ‘those who are Christ’s’ the state of ‘incorruption’ which constitutes their ‘eternal life’ enjoyed in the
Vision of God and the full communion of the Lord Jesus (
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 f
Monastery - Five hundred travellers, with their horses, have been lodged at once within its walls; while the poor from every side of the country, waiting the ringing of the alms bell; when they flocked in crowds, young and old, to the gate of the monastery, where they received, every morning, a plentiful pro-vision for themselves and their families:...
all this appears great and noble
Image - All his thought turns on his doctrine of the Divinity of Christ, and the basis of that doctrine was the bright
Vision he had beheld on the way to Damascus. Brown, Heavenly
Visions, 1910, pp
Claim - In the Roman world, the most sincere and eloquent teacher of the age (Lucretius) had shown that there was no Divine care for man as had been once supposed, for in his
Vision of the opened heavens he had seen the gods in a happy seclusion of their own, undisturbed by the sound of human pain and sorrow (de Rer
Duty - in His Life and Spirit, to cleanse our hearts, to renew our wills, and to illuminate our minds with the
Vision of Truth
Aeon - The larger
Vision gave the larger meaning; but it cannot he said that the fundamental idea of ‘age,’ as an epoch or dispensation with an end, is lost
Serve - In the temple of Ezekiel’s
Vision, those Levites who had “… ministered unto them
before their idols …” were forbidden by the Lord to serve as priests (
Temple - The temple seen by Ezekiel in
Vision is very fully described, and is supposed by some to be a figure of the actual temple
Purity (2) - It was the sense of what true purity consists in that led an old writer to say, ‘Keep thy heart above all that thou guardest, for out of it are the issues of life’ (
Proverbs 4:23),—a saying which half-anticipates the Beatitude promising the
Vision of God to the pure in heart
Clementine Literature - When Clement was five years old, Mattidia told her husband that she had seen a
Vision warning her that unless she and her twin sons speedily left Rome and remained absent for ten years, all must perish miserably. Thereupon the father sent his wife and children with suitable provision of money and attendance to Athens, in order to educate them there. The
Vision which she had related had been feigned in order to escape from the incestuous addresses of her husband's brother, without causing family discord by revealing his wickedness. She had been guilty of adultery with a slave, as he had learned on his brother's testimony, and afterwards leaving Rome with her twin sons on account of a pretended
Vision, had perished miserably by shipwreck
Sin (2) - Paul is led to disclose this ‘vision of sin’ as the necessary postulate of the gospel (
Romans 1:16-18), in which is revealed a righteousness of God’ (
Romans 1:17, Romans 3:21). Fundamentally this is the appeal to personal experience, and it is clear from the Epistle to the Romans, as from the whole Pauline theology, that the Apostle is universalizing his own experience, as he saw himself in the light of the
Vision of Jesus of Nazareth (
Galatians 1:11-17, Romans 7:7-25)
Conscience - The explanation of the difficulties raised by such language lies in the fact already noted that ‘conscience’ in the NT is used to denote not the power of moral
Vision only, but the moral judgment and the moral feelings. Even as a power of intuition or
Vision by which the Moral Law is discerned, conscience is capable of improvement
Father, Fatherhood - He is ready to bestow the Kingdom of heaven upon the poor in spirit, and to give the
Vision of Himself to the pure in heart (
Matthew 5:3;
Matthew 5:8); that is to say, He gives the best He has to any who will receive it. In offering life to a Samaritan, Jesus feels that He is accomplishing the Father’s will (
John 4:10;
John 4:34), and a visit of certain Greeks brought before His soul the
Vision of a great harvest for the Kingdom of God (
John 12:20-24)
Baruch, Apocalypse of -
Vision of the cedar and the vine. Second prayer of Baruch, followed by a revelation to him about the resurrection of the good and the bad, and the
Vision of the black and the bright waters. *
0 They coincide also in much of their teaching, in the division of history into 12 parts, in the importance attached to Adam’s sin, in the legend of Behemoth and Leviathan, in the interest taken in the Lost Tribes,†
Jeremiah - During this period, when others thought evil distant, the Vision of the almond tree, the emblem of wakefulness, showed Jeremiah that evil was hastening, and the seething pot that it should come from the N. Some symbolical acts of prophets, being scarcely possible, probable, or decorous, existed only in spiritual Vision; when possible and proper, they were often materialized by outward performance. Division. " Notes of time mark other divisions more or less historical
Sol'Omon - The glorious
Visions of (
Psalm 72:1 ) . God in a
Vision having offered him the choice of good things he would have, he chose wisdom in preference to riches or honor or long life
Moses - He was at first unwilling to go, but at length he was obedient to the heavenly
Vision, and left the land of Midian (4:18-26)
Isaac - Isaac had obeyed God's
Vision in not going down to Egypt, a place of spiritual danger though abundant in food, but sojourning in Gerar during the famine
Antiochus - ," Epiphanes, namely, Philip of Macedon and "robbers of the people," factious Jews, who, revolting from Ptolemy, helped Antiochus unconsciously, "establishing the
Vision," i
Jeremiah, Book of - Some judge it to have been a
Vision only, and others that Ephrath (that is Bethlehem) is meant instead of the Euphrates
Amen - It was not till after the Exile that it assumed its far commoner place as the answer, or almost the refrain in chorus, to the words of a previous speaker, and as such took its natural position at the close of the five divisions of the Psalms. This was further modified by the insertion of ‘and’ in the first three divisions of the Psalter. Here it is perhaps a conscious archaic form, brought in to add to the mysterious language of the
Vision, which may originally, like the Book of Enoch or Noah, have been ascribed to some earlier seer
Bethlehem - " The road winds round the top of a valley which tradition has fixed on as the scene of the angelic
Vision which announced the birth of our Lord to the shepherds; but different spots have been selected, the Romish authorities not being agreed on this head
Abram - Here he received in
Vision from Jehovah the further revelation that this was the land which his descendants should inherit
Animals - In
Matthew 3:16 the
Vision of the Holy Ghost descending in the form of a dove (ὡσεὶ περιστεράν) seems to have been granted to all present at the Baptism. In
Mark 1:10 and
Luke 3:22 the
Vision is apparently addressed more especially to Jesus Himself
Joshua - To the young soldier He appears in
Vision as a captain, to the young preacher He appears as a preacher, to the young pastor He is the chief shepherd, to the young merchant He is an example of successful buying and selling, to a master He appears as a master, and to a servant as a servant; sometimes He is a lover, sometimes He is a husband, sometimes a son, and sometimes a brother, and so on, till He never leaves any man at his entrance on life without a divine
Vision, and an ideal example, and a sacred summons to take his shoes off his feet
Name, Names - Many places, however, got their designation from a salient natural feature, a well ( beer ), a fountain ( en , in En-gedi ), a meadow ( abel ), a vineyard ( karmel ), woods ( jearim ), in Kirath-jearim ), a hill ( Gibeah, Gibeon, Ramah ), trees ( Bethphage, Bethtappuah, Anab, Abel-hasshittim, Elah, Allon-bacuth ); from some circumstance belonging to the history or legends of the locality, an encampment ( Mahanaim ), a watch-tower ( Migdal, Megiddo, Mizpah ), a village ( Hazer ), a temporary abode of shepherds ( Succoth ), a place of refuge ( Adullam ), a
Vision ( Bcer-lahai-roi ); from the clan which dwelt there ( Samaria )
Fulfillment - ...
Visions, dreams, and direct communications were the principal means by which God conveyed his will (
Numbers 12:5-8 ) to his prophetic servants. This situation is also true of the New Testament, where the atoning work of Jesus, while bringing one era to fulfillment, has actually opened a new and wider
Vision of God's power working through the fellowship of believers
King, Christ as - In Daniel's apocalyptic
Vision, he sees a future divine king—"one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven
Docetism - The account given in the Nicene extracts of a
Vision seen by St
Proselyte - They left the field to Christianity, restricted their
Vision to their own people, and left the outer world alone
Patriarchs, the - The growth of the Hebrew nation was promised specifically to Abraham in the patriarchal covenant (
Genesis 12:15-205 ;
Genesis 17:1 ), along with the provision of a land in which Abraham's offspring would dwell. At the very moment that Isaac's life was about to be taken, his position as covenant heir was safeguarded by the provision of an alternative sacrificial offering (
Genesis 22:9-13 ). ...
In old age, Isaac's sight failed; and, when it became apparent that Esau might inherit the extra birthright provision after all, Rebekah conspired with her favorite son Jacob to deceive Isaac into blessing him rather than Esau. God intervened in a night
Vision, and a restrained Laban made a covenant of peace with Jacob
Peter - His Jewish prejudice was thoroughly conquered by his
Vision at Joppa and the conversion of Cornelius and his company at Cæsarea; and, when taken to task by the Judaistic party at Jerusalem for associating with uncircumcised Gentiles, he vindicated his action and gained the approval of the Church (
Acts 10:1 to
Acts 11:19 )
Parousia (2) - Manifestly Jesus took into account the gradual evolution of human affairs in contemplating the triumph of His Kingdom, while at the same time His faith in that triumph was so real and assured, and His
Vision of it so intensely clear, that it seemed to Him imminent, on the eve of fulfilment; and when He spoke under this feeling His disciples gathered the impression that it was close at hand, and they naturally understood the supreme event to be synchronous with the fall of Jerusalem, though in tins, as it proved, they were mistaken
Power - So rich is the provision for its subjects, that even the cry of hunger becomes a feast, and to bear a burden and cross with Christ is an immediate Paradise. By its connexion with the One Name of which the OT spoke it fulfilled the
Vision of the prophets which Judaism had obscured, and, on the other hand, included in due place and proportion those gifts for physical need and circumstance that had been the crown and consummation of Gentile desire (
Matthew 6:33)
Ideas (Leading) - This is not an artificial division: it corresponds to two stages in His public teaching which are very clearly marked in the Gospels. Nevertheless, in the OT is to be found the
Vision of a great world-wide Kingdom of God. And the lesson reaches the highest heights of spiritual
Vision
Second Coming of Christ - The final triumph of good over evil is brought out in a number of ways, notably in the magnificent
Vision of the heavenly city and in the
Vision of the wedding of the Lamb. There are problems in knowing exactly how the
Visions are to be interpreted, none more so than in the reference to the binding of Satan for a thousand years and the reign of certain believers with Christ for that period (
Revelation 20:1-6 )
Terah - I can easily imagine a thousand suspicions, and rebukes, and remonstrances, and threatenings that Terah might have addressed to his son Abram when he first communicated the
Vision and the voice to his Chaldean father. Terah, the father of Abram, is at the same time the father of all those statesmen, and churchmen, and theologians, and philosophers, as well as of all those many plain men among us, who to old age are still open to all divine
Visions and to all divine voices; to all new truth and to all new light; to all new departures in divine providence and in divine progress, and then to all new opportunities and all new duties. And, thank God, at every new
Vision and at every new voice of His we ever find such sons of Terah in the church and in the state, in the congregation and in the family, and a right honourable place they fill, and a right fruitful
Innocentius, Bishop of Rome - Diocese is here used, in its original sense, to denote a civil division of the empire comprising many provinces. 413) began his famous work, de Civitate Dei , though he took 13 years to complete it, in which he sees a
Vision of the kingdom of God rising on the ruins of the kingdom of the world—a
Vision which gradually took more distinct shape in the idea already more or less grasped by Innocent, of a Catholic Christendom united under the Roman see
Paul the Apostle - Paul would not have written to the Romans as be did without knowing them personally; that the large experience and wide field of
Vision shown in the Epistles were an impossibility at so early a date; that time was required for ‘Paulinism,’ which was a radical reformation of the older Christianity, to spring up; that the problems discussed (the Law and the Gospel, Justification, Election, etc. Saul was blinded by the
Vision and led into Damascus, where he was instructed and baptized by one Ananias
Revelation, the -
Revelation 11:19 commences another division of the book, taking us back in thought to the birth of Christ, from which this development starts. These form another division of the book. A
Vision concerning the great harlot, which may be identified with Jezebel (in the address to Thyatira) and from the description given, may be recognised as the Romish Papal system, is brought under the notice of John by one of the angels of the seven last plagues. In
Revelation 19:11 to
Revelation 20:3 is presented a
Vision of the Lord coming forth in warrior judgements He is seated on a white horse, and His saints follow with Him
History - ” From within this great judgment God's people look back to the past, the glory days of David, the saving Exodus under Moses' supervision, and then look forward. The prophetic
Vision of God's final kingdom will be realized fully
John - ...
The Apocryphon of John is an early gnostic work that purports to contain a
Vision of the apostle John. Zechariah, John's father, was a priest from the division of Abijah
Daniel, the Book of - ...
The
Vision mode of revelation, which is the exception in other prophets, is the rule in Daniel and in Zechariah 1-6
Animals - This is a
Vision of future transformation and harmony, when all creation will be renewed (cf
Chronicles, the Books of - ...
The Books of Samuel the seer, Nathan the prophet, and Gad the seer (
1 Chronicles 29:29), furnished information for David's reign; "the book of Nathan," and "the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite," and "the
Visions of Iddo the seer" (
2 Chronicles 9:29), for Solomon's reign; "the story (midrash , 'interpretation') of the prophet Iddo," for king Abijah's "acts, ways, and sayings" (
2 Chronicles 12:22). Iddo's "book concerning genealogies and the prophet Shemaiah's words," for Rehoboam's acts (
2 Chronicles 12:15); "the book of the kings of Israel and Judah" (
2 Chronicles 25:26;
2 Chronicles 27:7;
2 Chronicles 32:32;
2 Chronicles 33:18), "the sayings of the seers" (
2 Chronicles 33:19, choza ), for many subsequent reigns; "the words of Jehu the son of Hanani" (
2 Chronicles 20:34), for Jehoshaphat's reign; "the
Vision of the prophet Isaiah" (
2 Chronicles 26:22;
2 Chronicles 32:32), for Uzziah's and Hezekiah's reigns. The division of Chronicles into two books is due to the Septuagint
Zebedee - ’ The latter portion seems to have been implied in the promises of
Genesis 49:13 and
Deuteronomy 33:18, but it is excluded in Joshua’s (
Joshua 19:10-16) division of the land. They discuss the question as to what Jacob saw in
Vision, in that he blessed Zebulun immediately after Judah (
Genesis 49:10-14), and the usual answer they give is that he foresaw the glories of Rabbinism in the presence of the Sanhedrin at Sepphoris before it was removed to Tiberias (Yalkut Shimeoni, i
Poetry - To illustrate, consider the perspective on an object seen with binocular
Vision
Hell - After the provisional state of Hades and the final judgment, God's wrath culminates in hell. John's
Vision in Revelation 21 of the new city on a high mountain confirms this separation between the blessed and the damned after the day of judgment
Providence of God - pronoia [
Acts 24:2 ), or negatively, as when Paul admonishes us to "make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires" (
Romans 13:14 , ; RSV ). When applied to God the idea takes on a vastly larger dimension because God not only looks ahead and attempts to make provision for his goals, but infallibly accomplishes what he sets out to do. In John's breath-taking
Vision of God upon his throne (Revelation 4-5 ) the picture is of ceaseless adoration and service of God by all that inhabit heaven
Hosanna - If, as seems clear, the
Vision is expressed in figures drawn from that event, then the acclaim in heaven must be held to settle the meaning of those Hosannas upon earth: the dative of the Apocalypse is the dative of the Gospel: it is the dative not of a prayer for Jesus, but of an ascription of salvation to Him as its Mediator and Bestower
Glory - With him also the δόξα is fundamentally associated with the idea of celestial splendour, to which, indeed, his
Vision of the glorified Christ gave a new and vivid reality; but the idea of revelation, of the Glory as God’s self-manifestation, becomes prominent
Majesty (2) - There came a reaction by and by, represented in the East by Origen and in the West by Jerome, when men bethought themselves of such a prophetic Psalm as the 45th, with its
Vision of One ‘fairer than the children of men’ (
Isaiah 53:2) and girded with glory and majesty (Isaiah 53 :)
Samuel, First Book of - The word of Jehovah was precious: there was no open
Vision: the priest had failed
Arts - The time had passed when agriculture was a self-contained industry; there were now many departments, and much subdivision of labour. ...
We read once of the shambles (μάκελλον = macellum,
1 Corinthians 10:25), which in reality was a meat and provision market, with many booths or shops, such as every great city of the time could boast. Although these here appear as seen in
Vision, they were all of them possible to antiquity
Holiness - So in like manner in John's
Vision
Jacob - And though he was supported with the assurance of the divine protection, and the renewal of the blessing of Abraham by God himself, in his remarkable
Vision at Bethel, and solemnly devoted himself to his service, wishing only for food and raiment, and vowing to profess the worship of God, and pay tithe unto him should he return back in peace,
Genesis 28:10-22 ; yet he was forced to engage in a tedious and thankless servitude of seven years, at first for Rachel, with Laban, who retaliated upon him the imposition he had practised on his own father; and substituted Leah, whom he hated, for Rachel, whom he loved; and thereby compelled him to serve seven years more; and changed his wages several times during the remainder of his whole servitude of twenty years; in the course of which, as he pathetically complained, "the drought consumed him by day, and the frost by night, and the sleep departed from his eyes," in watching Laban's flocks,
Genesis 31:40 ; and at last he was forced to steal away, and was only protected from Laban's vengeance, as afterward from Esau's, by divine interposition
Daniel, Book of - ...
The book divides itself into two portions: the first six chapters give Daniel's intercourse with the great monarchs; and the latter six chapters the
Visions and revelations made to Daniel himself. The prophetical aspect of the first division begins with Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The messenger said, "I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the
Vision is for many days
History - ” From within this great judgment God's people look back to the past, the glory days of David, the saving Exodus under Moses' supervision, and then look forward. The prophetic
Vision of God's final kingdom will be realized fully
Prayer - The third hour was marked by the gift of the Spirit (
Acts 2:15), the ninth by the miracle of the healing of a lame man by Peter and John on their way to prayer (
Acts 3:1), the sixth by the
Vision which taught Peter to receive Gentile converts
Prophecy Prophet Prophetess - It was the spoken utterance of the man of
Vision and inspiration; it was a declaration of the ‘word of Jahweh’; it was a revelation of the Divine will not so much in the sense of prediction-an aspect of prophecy not original, but subordinate-but rather in the sense of spiritual instruction involving a special degree of religious and ethical insight. Prophecy is connected not only with revelations, but with ‘visions’ (
2 Corinthians 12:1-3). ‘The Apocalypse, which is the great prophetic book of the NT and the most conspicuous relic we have of the prophecy of the primitive Christian Church, is a series of
Visions seen by a prophet and related by him’ (T
Macarius Magnus, Magnes, a Writer - 93); the four watches of the night (
Mat_14:25) mean the ages of the patriarchs of the law of the prophets and of Christ; in Elijah's
Vision the strong wind was the patriarchal dispensation which swept away the worship of idols; the earthquake was the law of Moses at the giving of which the mountains leaped like rams; the fire was the word of prophecy (
Jer_20:9); the still small voice was the message of Gabriel to Mary
Law - Then Peter had a
Vision through which he learnt that Jewish food laws no longer applied
Paul - Paul saw in a
Vision a man,of Macedonia, who besought him, saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us. " The
Vision was at once accepted as a heavenly intimation; the help wanted, by the Macedonians was believed to be the preaching of the gospel
Montanus - We learn that the Montanists brought as Scripture examples of ecstasy the text "the Lord sent a deep sleep (ἔκστασιν ) upon Adam," that David said in his haste (ἐν ἐκστάσει ) "all men are liars," and that the same word is used of the
Vision which warned Peter to accept the invitation of Cornelius. There probably Montanus had taught; there the prophetesses Priscilla and Maximilla resided; there Priscilla had seen in a
Vision Christ come in the form of a woman in a bright garment, who inspired her with wisdom and informed her that Pepuza was the holy place and that there the New Jerusalem was to descend from heaven. The bulk of what Tertullian taught as a Montanist he probably would equally have taught if Montanus had never lived; but owing to the place which Montanism ascribed to
Visions and revelations as means of obtaining a knowledge of the truth, his belief in his opinions was converted into assurance when they were echoed by prophetesses who in their
Visions gave utterance to opinions imbibed from their master in their waking hours. Both martyrs and martyrologist had clearly been under Montanist influences: great importance is attached to
Visions and revelations, and the editor justifies the composition of new Acts, intended for church reading, on the grounds that the "last days" in which he lived had witnessed, as had been prophesied, new
Visions, new prophecies, new exhibitions of the mighty working of God's Spirit, as great as or greater than in any preceding age
Polycarpus, Bishop of Smyrna - Three days before his apprehension he saw in a
Vision his pillow on fire and at once interpreted the omen to his friends: "I must be burnt alive. Then with one voice the multitude demanded that Polycarp should be burnt alive; for his
Vision must needs be fulfilled
Luke, the Gospel According to - Luke (
Luke 22:43) records the appearance of an angel unto Jesus during His agony; as no one else is mentioned as having seen the
Vision, (indeed the disciples were sleeping for sorrow), it must have been especially revealed by the Lord after His resurrection
Tabernacle - ...
This is the
Vision that captured the writer of the Book of Hebrews and is recorded in chapter 9 of that book
God (2) - One of such tenderness of heart as Jesus showed in all His relations to others—a tenderness which He believed was an attribute of God—could not have uttered such words of judgment as
Mark 3:29;
Mark 12:9 and
Matthew 25:46, unless He had had an open
Vision of the Divine purity
Manliness - So there was not lacking in His courage that element which arises from the
Vision of the cruel and shameful death awaiting Him. Now the right and duty of avenging an affront or an injury have always seemed to men bound up with the love of honour, and the division of others into friends and enemies has seemed inevitable
Abraham - " Immediately after Abraham had refused worldly rewards Jehovah in
Vision said, "I am
Brotherhood (2) - Only the fresh
Vision of the Father’s love, the surrender to the Saviour’s Cross, and the appropriation of the Spirit’s power will inspire, fit, and equip it for the holy task to which God summons
Angel - ,
Ezekiel 40:1 a
Vision is attributed to ‘the hand of the Lord’; in
Ezekiel 40:3 ff. , angels take up a very definite position of intermediate beings between God and man, one of their chief functions being that of interpreting
Visions which Divine action creates in the mind of men; in both these books angels are called ‘men,’ and in both the earlier idea of the ‘Angel of the Lord’ has its counterpart in the prominent position taken up by some particular angel who is the interpreter of
Visions
Paraclete - This brings them, however, to take part in a dire struggle, and the last discourse of Jesus affirms in words of deep impressiveness that He has made every provision for their warfare with the world and their victory over it. -At the same time the statements regarding the Paraclete are connected at all points with the peculiar content of the Johannine theology: with its absolute rejection of the world, as being the realm of darkness, its bringing the gospel under the single aim of evoking faith in Jesus, its subordination of all external results to the spiritual process of generating the knowledge of God, its synthesis of historical recollection with the mystic
Vision that looks within and there becomes assured of communion with God. Lightfoot, On a Fresh Revision of the English NT, do
Parables - Stories, especially those of Jesus, told to provide a
Vision of life, especially life in God's kingdom. This latter category points to the realism of rejection of the will of God fully allowable on the one hand by the divine provision of freedom, yet on the other hand the divine insistence of the eventual triumph of His loving purpose
Paraclete - This brings them, however, to take part in a dire struggle, and the last discourse of Jesus affirms in words of deep impressiveness that He has made every provision for their warfare with the world and their victory over it. -At the same time the statements regarding the Paraclete are connected at all points with the peculiar content of the Johannine theology: with its absolute rejection of the world, as being the realm of darkness, its bringing the gospel under the single aim of evoking faith in Jesus, its subordination of all external results to the spiritual process of generating the knowledge of God, its synthesis of historical recollection with the mystic
Vision that looks within and there becomes assured of communion with God. Lightfoot, On a Fresh Revision of the English NT, do
Passion Week - alone, in which the spittle of Jesus comes to the aid of His omnipotence (Mark 7:33, Mark 8:23); in the healing of the blind, the narrator pictures to himself a gradual advance towards perfect
Vision (Mark 8:24-25)
Incarnation (2) - He beheld Divine realities with immediate
Vision, and reported what He had seen and heard (
John 1:18;
John 6:46;
John 8:38;
John 15:15). We see in Jesus one whose
Vision of God was absolutely undimmed, whose intercourse with God was unhindered by any incapacity on His part to receive, or to respond to, the communications of God to Him
Christ in Reformation Theology - The Reformers added: and that He fills the whole sphere of God, so that there is room for no other
Vision of God than that which Christ gives us. ...
The reader of the second part of the second book of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas cannot help seeing that the really evangelical aspirations of the great Schoolmen are everywhere thwarted and finally slain outright because the theologian has to start with the thought that God has been first defined as either the Absolute, or the Primum Movens, or the Causa efficiens prima, or the Intelligens a quo omnes res naturales ordinantur in finem—conceptions which can never imprison, without destroying, the
Vision of the Father who has revealed Himself to us in Jesus Christ
Christ in the Early Church - Christ fills the field of
Vision. stated the balance of faith clearly and antithetically, and the fourth Council (Chalcedon, 451), in condemning Eutyches, laid down that the two natures of Christ are to be acknowledged ἀσυγχύτως (‘without confusion’), ἀτρέπτως (‘without change’), ἀδιαιρέτως (‘without division’), ἀχωρίστως (‘without separation’). ), was comforted before her sufferings by a
Vision of Christ as an aged man, a shepherd, sitting in the midst of a spacious garden, who said to her, ‘Thou hast done well, my child, in coming
Reality - The distress and suffering that are in the world (
Matthew 4:23;
Matthew 12:15), the mysteries of Providence (
Luke 13:1-4, John 9:3), the value and needs of the soul (
Matthew 16:26-27, Luke 12:20-21), the curse of sin (
Matthew 18:8-9, Luke 13:3, John 8:24), the certainty of retribution (
Matthew 18:6;
Matthew 23:33, Mark 9:43-48), the necessity of spiritual renewal (
Matthew 9:17, John 3:3-7), the burden of responsibility (
Matthew 11:20-24;
Matthew 23:14, Luke 10:13-16), the imperative obligations of duty (
John 9:4), the supreme authority of God (
Matthew 19:17, John 4:34;
John 10:29),—on all these Jesus kept His eye fixed with an intensity of
Vision and purpose that was never relaxed from the beginning to the end of His career
Unpardonable Sin - ’ The special monition of the incident in the Gospels is against that loss of
Vision which comes from the hardening power of sin, that continual resistance of the Spirit which leads at last to hatred of the Spirit
Old Testament in the New Testament, the - The climax of Revelation draws on the climax of Isaiah: both conclude with the
Vision of a "new heaven and a new earth. Some basic features of the Old Testament "story" become prophetic in the light of Christthat is, they are discovered to have a forward-looking, predictive function because their provisionality is revealed by the appearance of something (some one ) much greater and better
Jews, Judaism - The division of the land takes the size of the tribe into account, allotting a large region to Judah. David was addressed as "king of Israel" by Michal (
2 Samuel 6:20 ), but after the division of the kingdom upon the death of Solomon, Rehoboam bore the title "king of Judah" (
1 Kings 14:21 ). The first Jews to return from the Babylonian exile to Jerusalem rebuilt the temple; however, the religious practices of the next generation did not conform to the
Vision of Judaism that the Babylonian Jewish community held. The ethnic division may be traced back to the eighth century b
Eternal Punishment - ’ This sharp division of men into two classes entirely distinct is to human
Vision impossible. What
Visions beyond there may be, what larger hopes, what ultimate harmonies, if such there are in store, will come in God’s good time; it is not ours to anticipate them, or lift the veil where God has left it drawn’ (Orr, The Christian View of God and the World, 397)
Metaphors - , it is the believer (
Matthew 5:15), or his ‘eye’ (spiritual
Vision or intent), if clear and healthy (ἁπλοῦς,
Matthew 6:22), which is the lamp shining forth from the inward centre of life (φῶς,
Matthew 5:14)—which Jn
Aaron - In obedience to that intimation, after the forty years' separation, he met Moses in the "mount of God," where the
Vision of the flaming bush had been vouchsafed to the latter, and conducted him back to Goshen. Aaron, with characteristic impressibleness, repented of his sin almost immediately after he had been seduced into it, upon Jehovah's sudden address to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, declaring His admission of Moses to speak with Him "mouth to mouth, apparently," so that he should "behold the similitude of the Lord," a favor far above all "visions" vouchsafed to prophets
the Prodigal Son - But secret
Visions of sin will soon harden the tenderest heart in the world. "Did I see a boy of good make and mind, with the tokens on him of a refined nature, cast upon the world without provision, unable to say whence he came, or who were his family connections, I should conclude there was some secret connected with his history, and that he was one of whom, from one cause or another, his parents were ashamed. And then, as the Imitation has it, there was first the sinful knowledge, and then there arose out of that a sinful imagination, a picture of the sin, and then the young sinner's heart took a secret delight in the knowledge and the
Vision, and then he sought for an opportunity, and the opportunity soon came
Devotion - Thus Christ Himself teaches in one of the most sacred parts of Scripture: ‘I in them’ (
John 17:23;
John 17:26) is the final and fullest blessing and privilege conceivable in that hour of
Vision for those whom He loved ‘to the uttermost’ (
John 13:1 (Revised Version margin))
Acts - ...
It is the
Vision of the Christians in Antioch which shaped the remaining chapters of Acts
Advent (2) - The writer in
Vision beholds an ancient of days, seated on his throne to judge the great world-kingdoms and their rulers
Simon Magus - that of having seen our Lord though not in his lifetime yet subsequently in
Vision) were really the claims of Paul; and urged that Peter's refutation of Simon was in some places intended as a polemic against Paul
Temple - --The
Vision of a temple which the prophet Ezekiel saw while residing on the banks of the Chebar in Babylonia, in the twenty-fifth year of the captivity, does not add much to our knowledge of the subject
Eternal Life (2) - The life eternal into which the believer enters involves, as matter of course, all due allowance for Divinely appointed conditions, aids, provisions and means of nourishing the life itself; but to exalt these unduly is to divert the thought from the more central and profound mystic conception of Christ Himself as the life of the world. In that mirror the believer beholds the glory of his Lord reflected, and by the power of the heavenly
Vision he is ‘transformed into the same image’ (
2 Corinthians 3:17-18)
Spirit - As the cross drew near, His ‘soul’ (ἡ ψυχή μου τετάρακται,
John 12:27) revolted from the horrors of the
Vision; while we, as we read the narrative of self-revelation, perceive the origin and cause of His sympathy with ‘the feeling of our infirmities’ (
Hebrews 4:15)
Antichrist - Ezekiel’s prophecy of the overthrow of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38); Zechariah’s
Vision of the destruction of the destroyers of Jerusalem (Zechariah 14); above all, the representation in Daniel, with reference to Antiochus Epiphanes, of a world-power that waxed great even to the host of heaven (
Daniel 8:10), and trod the sanctuary under foot (
Daniel 8:13), and stood up against the Prince of princes until it was finally ‘broken without hand’ (
Daniel 8:25)-all contributed to the idea of a great coming conflict with the powers of a godless world before the Divine Kingdom could be set up
Demoniac - Hence he considers the Egyptian magicians as jugglers; the witch of Endor, as a ventriloquist; and, completing the system, he has written an elaborate dissertation to prove, that when Christ was "tempted of the devil," as the Evangelist Matthew expresses it, that apostate angel was not really present; and that the whole transaction took place in a
Vision or a dream
Word - It also signifies what is written in the sacred books of the Old and New Testament,
Luke 11:28 ;
James 1:22 ; the divine law which teaches and commands good things, and forbids evil,
Psalms 119:101 ; and is used to express every promise of God,
Psalms 119:25 , &c, and prophecy or
Vision,
Isaiah 2:1
Prayer - The reason lay in the prophet’s Divine call, his
Vision of the Divine will (so a ‘seer’), and his forthtelling of the Divine message
Philippians, Epistle to - The contrast between His earthly life of suffering and death and the eternal, glorious existence involved in the
Vision of the risen Lord, has become the religious motive of supreme efficacy
Predestination - Paul when in a
Vision of the night the Lord said to him: ‘I have much people in this city’ (
Acts 18:10)
Presence (2) - ‘They taught (following Thomas Aquinas) that the soul can even here upon earth so receive God within itself as to enjoy in the fullest sense the
Vision of His being, and dwell in heaven itself’ (Harnack, Outlines of the Hist
Temple - But inasmuch as Ezekiel, the Temple of whose
Vision is in all essential points a replica of that of Solomon, gives 6 cubits as the thickness of its walls (
Ezekiel 41:5 ), except the walls of the porch, which were 5 cubits thick (
Ezekiel 40:48 ), those of the first Temple are usually assumed to have been of the same dimensions
Colossians, Theology of - God's power, provision, and sovereignty are central for Paul. " In the other words, the teaching emphasizes
Visions in which heavenly worship of the angels was observed. This teaching spoke of days of fasting to prepare for a journey to the heavens to see God and have a
Vision of him and his angelic host in worship (Philo, Som. Thus the emphasis in this false teaching falls on the humility of ascetic practice,
Visions, rigors of devotion, treating the body harshly, and rules about what should not be eaten or what days should be observed (2:16-23)
Isaiah - More contemplative and ideal in this part, he soars aloft in glorious
Visions of the future, no longer tied down to the existing political circumstances of his people, as in the former part. The divisions are marked by the ending twice the "salvation" foretold is not for the unfaithful, but for the believing and waiting true Israelites; for, "there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. ...
The whole book falls into the sacred seven divisions:...
(1) Isaiah 1-12;...
(2) Isaiah 13-27, the burdens and their sequel;...
(3) Isaiah 28-35;...
(4) Isaiah 36-39; and...
(5-7) the three divisions (a sacred ternary) of Isaiah 40-66. "The valley of
Vision" (
Isaiah 22:1) may imply that it was in "the lower city" he resided and saw
Visions, though "valley" may refer to Jersalem generally, surrounded by hills higher than Zion and Moriah
Abortion - ...
A second ambiguity builds upon the first and concerns the harm or injury envisioned in verses 22-23. Circumstances have obscured his
Vision. ...
The psalmist sometimes recalls God's shelter and provision during the earliest stages of life when making requests for God's ongoing protection and guidance (22:9-10; 71:6;
119:73)
Jeremiah, Theology of - To state the theology of a book is to offer a synthesis of the material from a theological rather than historical angle of
Vision
Sorrow, Man of Sorrows - The primary reference is to the immediate crisis, but in all ages His disciples will have sorrow in all that hinders their full
Vision of Him, the complete establishment of His Kingdom, and His return in glory
Helena, Saint, Mother of Constantine the Great - 430) informs us that Helena was told in a night
Vision to go to Jerusalem; that she found the site of the Passion with difficulty, though he alludes to no supernatural aid; that Macarius suggested the means of distinguishing the true cross, viz
Paul as a Man of Prayer - The truth is, beyond the best adorations and doxologies of the Apostle Paul, the soul of man will never rise on this side the adorations and doxologies of the Beatific
Vision itself
Evolution (Christ And) - The upward striving of humanity for union with its Creator as personal finds its historical witness in (1) the universal function of worship, prayer, and sacrifice, and (2) the Hebrew prophetic
Vision of the Ideal Servant of Jehovah, and the Messianic hope; and it suggests, as God is personal, a corresponding act of self-revelation in a historical Person who would unite in himself the human aspiration and the Divine manifestation; while the gradual revelation consummated in the coming of Christ, and recorded in the Old and New Testaments, is in line with all the known laws of God’s evolutionary methods
David - in His Races - I would fain begin with David's faith, were it not that there is no word in all our tongue that carries less meaning and less
Vision to most people's minds and hearts than just this so frequent sound-faith
Achan - For the pictures from which we turn we shall gaze unabashed on the Beatific
Vision
Preaching - Sometimes they had no open
Vision, and the word of the Lord was precious, or scarce; the people only heard it now and then
Paul - The journey would take at least a week using donkeys or mules to ride and carry provisions. Usually Paul's message caused a division in the synagogue, and Paul and Barnabas would seek a Gentile audience. A
Vision directed Paul to go to Philippi in the province of Macedonia
Manicheans - 431), the Explanation of the Gospel of Manes, the Gospel of the Infancy, the
Vision of St
Idol - Like "the chambers of imagery" or priests' chambers with idolatrous, pictures on the walls as seen in
Vision (
Ezekiel 8:12), answering to their own perverse imaginations. The disgust of all godly Israelites, intestine divisions, a perpetual conflict between the Mosaic law, still in force, and the established national idolatry, and the immorality which results from idolatry, were the natural and penal consequence, bringing ruin finally on the state
Christianity - ( a ) It was related to all the old ethnic faiths , and to every religious experience of
Vision and longing, of striving and despair, that the soul of man had ever known. ), while the
Visions of the Divine that came to true Israelites only made them more deeply conscious of their sin and need (cf
Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life - Other Old Testament books offer abundant additional affirmation of these and other never-ending aspects of God or his saving provisions. John's
Vision begins with praise to God "for ever and ever" (1:6)
Canon of the Old Testament - The third division of the OT is called in Hebrew Kethûbhîm , i. The NT expresses a doctrine of Holy Scripture; it acknowledges a threefold division (
Luke 24:44 ); it implies that Chronicles was the last book in the roll of the OT (
Matthew 23:35 ,
Luke 11:51 ); but it does not quote Esther, Cant. He did not report the word of the Lord as received by
Vision or prophecy; in His own name He supplied what was wanting in Law and Prophets
Solomon - (
1 Kings 9:10-10:29), from "the book of the Acts of Solomon"; his accession and dedication of the temple (1 Kings 1 -
1 Kings 8:66) from "the book of Nathan the prophet"; his idolatry and its penal consequences (1 Kings 11) from "the book of Ahijah the Shilonite and the
Visions of Iddo the seer. After his offering there a thousand burnt offerings God in
Vision gave him his choice of goods. Of his 3,000 proverbs we have a sample in the Book of Proverbs; of his 1,005 songs we have only the Song of Solomon (its five divisions probably are referred to in the odd five), and Psalm 72 and Psalm 127. But the people's patience was tried with the heavy taxes and levies of provisions (
1 Samuel 8:15;
1 Kings 4:21-23) and conscriptions required (
Mark 4:27)
Anthropology - The relationship of God and humanity in the Old Testament
Vision points directly to the relationships of human beings within Christ's church, a community of human beings called out to minister to all of God's creation
Serpent - It bears the name of an order among the hosts of heaven, whom Isaiah beheld in
Vision, placed above the throne of Jehovah in the temple; the brazen figure of this serpent is supposed to be a type of our blessed Redeemer, who was for our salvation lifted up upon the cross, as the serpent was elevated in the camp of Israel, for the preservation of that people
John the Baptist - He himself tells us that he "was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ;" and Irenaeus, speaking of the
Vision which he had there, says, "It is not very long ago that it was seen, being but a little before our time, at the latter end of Domitian's reign
Parable - In the parables of Christ the usual form is that of a complete story running parallel to the stages and divisions of a totally different subject. Both from the novelty of the
Vision thus presented, and from its hostility to the spirit and authority of the religious leaders, it is evident that teaching by parable was the form best adapted to Christ’s purpose and subject, and to the circumstances of the time
Philo - a hidden wisdom to be revealed only to the initiated
), and the mystical ecstatic
Visions. , the Merkaba, God’s chariot in Ezekiel; for
Visions of Paradise cf. 6), but these are exceptions; with Philo such things are the rule: all religion comes to perfection in the
Vision of God (Quis rer
Weights And Measures - As in his
Vision he is practically reproducing Solomon’s Temple, we may infer that Solomon’s cubit, i
Magic, Divination, And Sorcery - (5) In selecting men for special duties : the election of Saul (
1 Samuel 10:20 ), the choice of the men to attack Gibeah (
Judges 20:9 ), the division of duties among the priests (
1 Chronicles 24:5 ). ...
( b ) Dreams and
Visions . Numerous instances occur in which Divine intimations were communicated to men by dreams and
Visions. ...
Vision ( châzôn , with its cognate words) has a similarly wide application, extending from the God-given experiences of the higher prophets to the misleading predictions of false prophets
Evil - The figs in Jeremiah's
Vision were so "evil" they could not be eaten (24:2,3, 8; 29:17; they were of such poor quality that they were already in a state of decomposition that rendered them inedible)
Type - From the actual churches in Asia he leads his readers to the great
Vision of the Church that is to be, saying to them in the words of the angel, ‘Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb’ (
Revelation 21:9)
Sacraments - Even one converted by a heavenly
Vision (
Acts 9:18;
Acts 22:16), even those upon whom the Holy Ghost had already fallen (
Acts 10:48), were required to receive it, while of those whose understanding and experience of the faith were discovered to be essentially defective (
Acts 19:1-7) the crucial question at once asked by the Apostle was-‘Into what then were ye baptized?’ To Baptism St
Food - In Isaiah’s
Vision of the future, when ‘the lion shall eat straw like the ox’ (
Genesis 11:7 ), a return is contemplated to the idyllic conditions of the first age of all. 266, § 3 ]'>[1] and honey and butter and sheep and cheese of kine’; while, according to the latter passage, Solomon’s daily provision was ‘thirty measures of fine flour and three-score measures of meal; ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, besides harts and gazelles and roebucks and fatted fowl. In the Deuteronomic list above cited, the permitted and forbidden quadrupeds are followed by this provision regarding fish : ‘These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters, whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat: and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat, it is unclean unto you’ (
Deuteronomy 14:9 f. The fishes of our Lord’s two miracles of feeding were almost certainly of this kind, fish cleaned, split open, salted, and finally dried in the sun, having been at all times a favourite form of provision for a journey. The disciples were accustomed to buy provisions as they journeyed through the land (
John 4:8 ; cf.
John 13:29 ); and Corinth, we may be sure, was not the only city of the time that had a provision-market (
1 Corinthians 10:25 , EV
Gospels - The second period is from the rise of the Gentile church at Antioch to Paul's passing over to Europe in obedience to the Vision at Troas; the second Gospel, Mark, answers to this Judaeo-Gentile transition period, A
Miracles (2) - In His works on the non-human world also the need of man was continually served, more especially his need for
Vision of the higher facts of existence
Holiness Purity - There is a reminiscence of
Isaiah 6:3, but with a remarkable absence of the overwhelming impression of moral purity in the prophet’s
Vision
Christ in the Seventeenth Century - In the Lutheran field of
Vision stands the figure of the Divine, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Christ, upon which the humanity hangs like a thin transparent garment; while, for the Reformed Church, the human Jesus of Nazareth stands in the foreground, and the Divinity lies in the background of faith, constituting a union with the human Jesus that is beyond comprehension
Fall (2) - But to this it may be answered that, though historically and actually the Incarnation has taken this redemptive aspect, and is naturally and properly so presented in the Gospel, another view of it, under different conditions, is not excluded, of which, as we have seen, we are in fact permitted brief glimpses in a wider field of
Vision
Thecla - Martin of Tours was favoured with a
Vision, in which Mary, Agnes, and Thecla appeared and conversed with him (Migne, Patr
Jerusalem - ...
The city is called "the valley of
Vision" (
Isaiah 22:1-5), for the lower parts of the city, the Tyro-peon (the cheesemakers), form a valley between the heights. divisions of the city, where traces of the channel still exist
Missions - In the private converse of our Lord and His disciples, in the last days of the earthly ministry, the
Vision of the world is repeatedly brought before the minds of the disciples as the object of the Saviour’s thought and the scope of the disciples’ mission, as—’That the world may know that I love the Father … even so I do’ (
John 14:31); ‘As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world’ (
John 17:18; also
John 12:46-48, John 16:8-11, John 17:2;
John 17:21)
Miracles - ...
(8) Not an imaginary perception, as Socrates' demon; the giving sight to the blind leaves a lasting effect; in those of a mixed nature the principal miracle is momentary, but some circumstance combined with it is permanent; Peter's
Vision might be a dream, but the message of Cornelius could not have been; the concurrence could only be supernatural. Many miracles were typical; as the "tongues" manifested the universality of the Christian dispensation designed for every tongue, so counterworking the division of man from man through the confusion of tongues at Babel; the casting out of demons symbolizes Christ's coming "to destroy the works of the devil
Hell - It is questionable whether the original imagery underlying the expression is derived from the story of the Cities of the Plain, or the Pyriphlegethon-the fiery-flamed river-one of the tributaries of the Acheron in the Homeric
Vision of the under world (cf
Preaching - Sometimes they had no open
Vision, and the word of the Lord was precious or scarce: the people heard it only now and then
Lord's Prayer (ii) - Perhaps we have striven hard against wrongdoing, but what of the things we have left undone? In Christ’s great
Vision of the Judgment, ‘Inasmuch as ye did it not’ is the preface to the sentence of condemnation (
Matthew 25:45). As the commandments of the moral law are all gathered up in the two tables of duty to God and to man, so the petitions of the gospel are all represented in the two divisions of this little prayer
Acts of the Apostles - The two parts overlap each other; yet a clear division occurs at
Acts 13:1 , from which point forwards the Pauline journeys are described by one who for a considerable part of them was a fellow-traveller. ) propounds the ingenious conjecture that Luke, having met Paul at Troas accidentally (
Acts 16:10 ; it could not have been by appointment, as Paul had not meant to go there), was the ‘certain man of Macedonia’ who appeared in the
Vision (
Acts 16:9 ); it must have been some one whom the Apostle knew by sight, for otherwise he could not have told that he was a Macedonian. It is more probable that it represents a revision made in Asia Minor in the 2nd cent
Consciousness - We shall be guided by the following division:—...
I. It is not a doctrine which He has learned from Scripture, or proved by reason, or even gained by
Vision or revelation
Birth of Christ - the
Vision of Isaiah, which carries us back, according to Charles, within the lines of the first Christian century (Ascen
Fire - 209) suggests that this theory requires revision, in view of ‘the stores of energy in the chemical elements, and of the varieties of radiant energy to which attention has been prominently directed by the discovery of radium. 270), ‘that these terrible words can be pressed into the service of the doctrine of the Last Things, … It is safer to regard them as belonging to the scenery of the
Vision rather then to its eschatological teaching
Jesus Christ - He who nourished crowds with bread Would not one meal unto Himself afford O wonderful the wonders left undone, And scarce less wonderful than those He wrought!...
O self restraint passing all human thought, To have all power and be as having none! O self denying love, which felt alone For needs of others, never for His own! The next temptation in the spiritual order (Matthew gives probably the chronological order) was, Satan tried to dazzle Him, by a bright
Vision of the world's pomps "in a moment of time," to take the kingdoms of the world at his hands (as "delivered" to him, owing to man's fall) without the cross, on condition of one act of homage to him "the prince of this world
Hell - It is questionable whether the original imagery underlying the expression is derived from the story of the Cities of the Plain, or the Pyriphlegethon-the fiery-flamed river-one of the tributaries of the Acheron in the Homeric
Vision of the under world (cf
Old Testament - The outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost is equally the fulfilment of Joes’s glorious
Vision of the latter days (
Acts 2:16 ff
Fire - 209) suggests that this theory requires revision, in view of ‘the stores of energy in the chemical elements, and of the varieties of radiant energy to which attention has been prominently directed by the discovery of radium. 270), ‘that these terrible words can be pressed into the service of the doctrine of the Last Things, … It is safer to regard them as belonging to the scenery of the
Vision rather then to its eschatological teaching
Moses - The
Vision is generally made to typify Israel afflicted yet not consumed (
2 Corinthians 4:8-10); but the flame was in the bush, not the bush in the flame; rather, Israel was the lowly acacia, the thorn bush of the desert, yet God deigned to abide in the midst of her (
Zechariah 2:5)
Judgment Damnation - Paul leaves us with the
Vision of a world that is without a devil and without a hell, without a shadow on its brightness or a discord in its harmony
Temple - "Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah (Hebrew in the mount of the
Vision of Jehovah) where He appeared unto David in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite
Sacrifice - Out of His personal afflictions for His people grows the
Vision of a voluntary and personal sacrificial offering of Himself. These were the ideas from which controversies and party divisions in the Apostolic Church largely sprang
Redemption - He, the heavenly man of Daniel’s
Vision (
Daniel 7:13), came into the world for no other purpose than to perform a service for men which involved the giving of His life as a ransom for them
Resurrection - The division Sanhedrin contains the most important of the traditional utterances on this subject. the Ezra-Apocalypse and the Son of Man
Vision, we have the doctrine of the revelation of Messiah from heaven with the saints who had been caught up alive, prior to the establishment of the 400 years’ kingdom
God - The prophets, though they taught more spiritual ideas about God, still used anthropomorphisms: thus, Isaiah saw Jahweh on His throne (
Isaiah 6:1 ), though this was only in a
Vision
Lord's Day - ) inclines to this view, thinking it suits the context better, and seeing no reason for mentioning the day on which the seer had his
Vision. ...
Less than ever is it of service now to appeal to the Fourth Commandment as an authority in urging the due maintenance of the Lord’s Day; though, indeed, the Mosaic institution has its full value as a venerable exemplification of the naturally wise provision for a weekly release from daily business and toil. Christians must rely on other sanctions, and chiefly the definite association of the day with the Resurrection of our Lord, the true instinct by which with great spontaneity the first little Christian communities set the day apart, the continuous usage of the Church, the provision for the function of worship
Eschatology (2) - The Messiah was the Man of Daniel’s
Vision, the Man of the Clouds
Gospels (2) - Paul’s
Visions; but in this case an explanation can be given of the expression ‘I received of the Lord’ which will both satisfy the requirements of St. Paul’s language and also take the matter out of the region of subjective
Visions, and so render the statement historically intelligible and verifiable. ’...
It cannot be denied, however, that the language of the heavenly
Vision (
Acts 26:14), ‘It is hard for thee to kick against the goad,’ points most naturally to a long previous struggle between prejudices inborn and trained and the strange attractiveness of Jesus of Nazareth, whose glorious deeds and gracious words may have become known to the young Pharisee when he first arrived in Jerusalem from Tarsus
Arius, Followers of - For a time the division of the empire between three Augusti contributed an additional element of uncertainty to the conflict. Constantius, though by no means devoid of ability, as his success in maintaining his undivided authority against such rebellions as those of Magnentius and Vetranio proves, was far inferior to his father in clearness of
Vision and breadth of aim. , in whose division of the empire Egypt lay. The cause of genuine, practical Christianity suffered seriously under these divisions, intrigues, and acts of violence, and men of earnest and even indifferent minds were longing for peace
Jeremiah - 626 621; ( b ) the time of disillusion and silence, subsequent to Josiah’s reforms, 621 608; ( c ) the critical epoch, 608 604, opened by the fall of Josiah at Megiddo and closing in the fourth year of Jehoiakim after the battle of Carchemish and the advent of Nebuchadrezzar, when the paroxysm of the prophet’s soul was past and his
Vision of the future grew clear; ( d ) the stage of full illumination, attained during the calamities of the last days of Jerusalem. Jehovah has used His almighty power to play with a weak, simple man, and to make him a laughing-stock! Jehovah’s word is ‘a fire in his bones’; he is compelled to speak it, only to meet ridicule and insult! His warnings remain unfulfilled, and God leaves him in the lurch! He desires nothing but the people’s good; yet they count him a traitor, and put down his terrifying
Visions to malignity! This last reproach cut Jeremiah to the heart; again and again he had repelled it (
Jeremiah 15:10 ;
Jeremiah 17:16 ;
Jeremiah 18:20 )
Barnabas, Epistle of - It is evident that the writer thinks that this prophecy has been, in part at least, fulfilled; he has seen something in recent history which corresponds with this
Vision
Beatitude - The Pope considers his claims to beatitude; and if these are approved, proclaims his admission to the Beatific
Vision, and sanctions the ascription to him by the faithful of the title ‘Blessed. This division is simple, and serves to emphasize the distinction between the passive and active graces of the Christian character
Dream (2) - Moses’ pre-eminence was marked by Jehovah speaking with him ‘mouth to mouth,’ manifestly, while to others He made Himself known ‘in a
Vision,’ or ‘in a dream’ (
Numbers 12:6). Nor does Zechariah’s careful definition of his
Visions as received waking, though coming to him at night (
Zechariah 1:8;
Zec_4:1), involve a depreciation of revelations through dreams; it merely calls our attention to the fact, otherwise copiously illustrated, that all night-visions are not dreams (cf. The Scriptures merely affirm that God has on certain specific occasions, in making known His will to men, chosen to approach them through the medium of their night-visions; and has through these warned them of danger, awakened them to a sense of wrong-doing, communicated to them His will, or made known His purposes. ...
‘The psychology of dreams and
Visions,’ writes Dr
Offering - In his
Vision of the universal worship of God, even in Gentile lands, Malachi saw the minchâh given as “a pure offering” to God by believers everywhere (
Abram - After this he had another encouraging
Vision of God,
Genesis 15:1 ; and to his complaint that he was still childless, and that his name and property would descend to the stranger Eliezer, who held the next rank in his tribe, the promise was given, that he himself should have a son, and that his seed should be countless as the stars of heaven
Personality - These are the two factors of faith, for ‘faith is at once a
Vision and an allegiance’ (Hort). The first temptation was overcome by His affirmation that the soul is infinitely more precious than the natural life, and that there is eternal provision for it in communion with the Father (
Matthew 4:4)
Covenant - Did biblical writers borrow the idea of the covenant and its integral elements from pagan sources when the Old Testament was written—elements such as a self-presentation of the suzerain and his activities, including those done on behalf of the vassals, statements of intent, stipulations, and assurances of well-being if obedient and of curses if disobedient? The legal covenants included provisions for continuity, with emphasis on the suzerain's claim to vassals' children, and were confirmed by an oath or a special ratification ceremony, like the cutting in half of an ox or cow or the sharing of a meal as the conclusion of the act of covenanting. A covenant ratification ceremony was performed in a
Vision to Abram in which the blessing of peace for Abram and a curse (punishment) was pronounced on those enslaving covenantal seed (15:12-21)
Vicarious Sacrifice - To the founding of His Kingdom He devoted Himself with singleness of heart, understanding well the hazard it involved; for He realized the traditionalism of the age, its formalism, its lack of spiritual
Vision, its worldly lust and ambition, and He knew full well the opposition He would stimulate and the conflicts He must encounter
Psalms, Theology of - There is evidence that the division of the Psalter into five books (1-41; 42-72; 73-89; 90-106; 107-150) represents a final stage in the process of compiling the Book of Psalms, and that earlier collections were gathered together to produce the Psalter as it now exists. What is called for is just retribution, often envisioned as judgment in kind in which enemies will experience the harm that they had intended to inflict on complainants (5:10; 7:15-16; 10:2; 28:4; 35:7-8; 26; 79:12;
109:2-20,29). But Psalm 46,48 , and 76 in particular seem to point the worshiper in the direction of an eschatological realization of this ideal when the everlasting kingdom that the prophets envision will finally be established. Second, such links are not surprising given the psalmists'
Vision of the establishment of Yahweh's universal and everlasting kingdom of righteousness, justice, and peace and its temporal, historical embodiment in the rule of the Israelite king
Holy Spirit (2) - The later Evangelists may have conceived it otherwise, and extended the
Vision and the hearing of the voice to John the Baptist or even to the bystanders: it is indifferent here
Christ in Art - ...
Later ages increased the number of forms till there were about fifty, not counting subdivisions, which are duly named by the mediaeval heralds, e. At the close of that century Gregory of Tours supplies the earliest mention of an actual Crucifix, when he tells us that there was one in a church at Narbonne, and that Christ appeared in a
Vision to rebuke this representation because of its nakedness
Christianity - Within the range of prophetic
Vision all time is included, to the final consummation of all things: and the greatest as well as the smallest events are seen with equal distinctness, from the subversion of mighty empires and gigantic cities, to the parting of the raiment of our Lord, and the casting of the lot for his robe by the Roman guard stationed at his cross
Valentinus, Founder of a Gnostic Sect - Its division into an oriental and an Italian school shews that it had adherents even after the death of its founder, in both the East (Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia) and West (specially at Rome). 767), and of two pieces contained in the Philosophumena , the narrative of a
Vision (ὅραμα ) seen by Valentinus (Philos
John, Gospel of (Critical) - In the passage he speaks of the author as one whose name is not likely to carry weight (‘a certain man with us, whose name was John’), but it is essential to his argument, in thus making use of a Revelation or
Vision, that he should mention the recipient
Character of Christ - If He did not, if His thought is wide, His insight deep, His spirit noble and gentle; if He moves on the plane of the greatest prophets of the OT, and sees beyond their highest
Vision; we must trace this result to His education, and to the response made to it by His quick and intelligent sympathy
Desire - In the Prolegomena to Ethics and in the Introduction to Hume, Green has brought the self in its concrete reality within the
Vision of English thinkers
Clemens Romanus of Rome - He represents himself as commissioned to write for Clement the book of his
Visions in order that Clement might send it to foreign cities, that being his function; while Hermas himself was to read the
Vision at Rome with the elders who presided over the church
Clement of Alexandria - ), with the stages of the neo-Platonic course, the Purification ( ἀποκάθαρσις ), the Initiation ( μύησις ), and the
Vision ( ἐποπτεία ). The phrase may mean that he proposes to enter upon a new division of the Miscellanies , or that he will now pass to another portion of the great system of writings sketched out in Strom. John and James which were generally subtle but at times rash; and that he himself translated them into Latin with such revision as rendered their teaching more safe. The examples of spiritual interpretation which Clement gives in accordance with this traditional "rule" are frequently
Visionary and puerile (e
Lutherans - According, then, to the system under consideration, the favour of God in this life, and his beatific
Vision in the life to come, are both attainable by personal merit; the former by congruous, as it was termed, the latter by condign; the one without, the other with, the assistance of grace
Jesus Christ - In the prophecies of Daniel, the kingdom of the Messiah is not only foretold as commencing in the time of the fourth monarchy, or Roman empire, but the express number of years that were to precede his coming are plainly intimated: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the
Vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy
Holy Ghost - The very important fact, that, in the
Vision of Isaiah, the Lord of hosts, who spake unto the prophet, is, in
Acts 28:25 , said to be the Holy Ghost, while St
Julianus, Flavius Claudius, Emperor - He here learnt to know some of the more mystical of the heathen party, to whom paganism was still a reality and the gods living beings,
Visions of whom were to be seen by night and whose power still worked signs and wonders. This sign was no doubt the
Vision of the Genius of the Empire, who declared that he had long been waiting on his threshold and was now unwilling to be turned away from it. He reached Sirmium without opposition, having ordered the different divisions of his army to concentrate there