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Horeb on Elijah's visit to it,-in Uzziah's pents and scorpions, subject to scorching reign, at our Lord's death,—at Philippi,-be- winds, blasts and whirlwinds. fore the destruction of Jerusalem; images of civil commotions.

MOUNTAINS.

Characterized as being everlasting, perpetual, ancient, as the pillars of heaven, etc.

SUMMITS OF HILLS,

Scenes of retirement for prayer and medita tion; instanced in Moses, when Israel fought with Amalek; scenes of observation, and scenes of idolatrous worship as everywhere illustrated.

PECULIAR SACREDNESS ATTACHED TO MOUNT

ZION,

DESERTS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,

Arabian, or great desert, Bethaven, Beer-
sheba, Damascus, Edom, En-gedi, Gibeon,
Judea, Jeruel, Kedemoth, Kadesh, Maon,
Paran, Shur, Sin, Sinai, Ziph, Zin, of the Red
Sea, and that near Gaza.

ROADS,

Variously designated, highways, byways, ancient paths, old ways, etc.; used by travellers, frequented by robbers, and by beggars asking alms.

ISLANDS,

On account of its being the place of God's those mentioned in Scripture, Chittim, Clauda,
Representing in Hebrew poetry distant places,
presence, hence called God's holy hill.
Cyprus, Elishah, Melita and Patmos.

HILLS AND MOUNTAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIP

TURE,

EARLY SETTLEMENT OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

NATIONS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.

Effected by the descendants of Noah, recorded Are, Abarim, Amalek, Amana, Ammah, in the tenth chapter of Genesis, and more Ararat, Bashan, Beth-el, Bether, Carmel, particularly on the dispersion at Babel. Ebal, Ephraim, Esau, Gaash, Gareb, Gerizzim, Gilboa, Gilead, Hachilah, Hermon, Hor, Horeb, Lebanon, Mars' hill, Mizar, Moreh, Moriah, mount of the Amorites, Nebo, Olives, Paran, Perazim, Pisgah, Samaria, Seir, Shenir, Sinai, Sion, Sirion, Tabor, Zalmon, Zion, mount of Beatitudes, mount of Transtiguration, Agar, mountain of Myrrh.

VALLEYS,

Achor, Ajalon, Baca, Berachah, Bochim,
Charashim, Elah, Eshcol, Gerar, Gibeon,
Hebron, Hinnom, Jehoshaphat, Jericho,
Jezreel, Jiphtha-el Keziz, Lebanon, Megiddo,
Moab, Rephaim, Salt, Shavel, Shittim, Sid-
dim, Sorek, Succoth, Zared. Zeboim. Zepha-
thah, Valley of Vision, Fat Valleys, Valley of
Dry Bones, Valley of Haman-gog.

PLAINS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,

Breaches, Jericho, Jordan, Mamre, Moab, Shechem, Shinar, Tabor, Vineyards, Wilder ness, Low Plain.

ROCKS,

Are Amalek, descended from Esau, Ammon descended from Lot, the Amorites one of the seven nations of Canaan, Arabia noted for its Nineveh, Asix a small district of Asia Minor, kings and merchandise, Assyria, chief city Chaldea sometimes named Sinar, chief city Babylon, Bashan on the east of the Jordan, sometimes named Idumea, Edom, descended from Esau, chief city Bozrah, Egypt named also Sihon, Rahab, the land of Ham, the house of bondage, Elam or Persia, Ethi pia a name given to several nations, Galilee the northern province of Palestine in the time of Christ, Gog and Magog subjects of prophecy, Grecia, chief cities in the days of the Apostles, Athens and Corinth, Macedonia, chief city, Philippi, Italy Rome, Judea the southern province of Palestine in the time of Christ, Medes and Media in the distant east, Midian, Moab descended from Lot, Ophir famed for its gold, Padan-aram or Mesopotamia;Palestina or Philisia long the nearest and bitterest enemy of Israel, Phenice on the coast of Syria, Phrygia in Asia Minor, Samaria

Used for writing on, as referred to by Job; of the middle province of Palestine in the time shelter and refuge.

ROCKS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE,

Adullam, Bozez, and Seneh, En-gedi, Etam, Horeb, in Kadesh, Oreb, Rimmon, Sela-hamma-lekoth, Z.z; for obvious reasons Rock is a frequent name of God and Christ.

DESERT,

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DESTINY OF THE EARTH, Predicted by the apostle Peter to consist in its destruction by fire at the second coming of Christ, and is urged as a reason for Characterized as arid, desolate, barren, solitary, a diligent preparation for the coming of that as scenes of danger, pathless, infested by ser- day.

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GENEALOGIES OF THE TRIBES,

The posterity of Jacob by Leah, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,-by Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali,-by Zilpah, Gad and Asher, by Rachel, Joseph, (Manasseh and Ephraim) and Benjamin.

SPECIAL GENEALOGIES,

CENSUS OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL,

[GOD.

First taken at the commencement of their journeying in the wilderness, secondly on their entrance into Canaan, and thirdly by David, having reference to military objects forbidden by God, Satan tempting the king.

CATALOGUES,

Of the spies, in Numbers,-of David's heroes, in Chronicles, - of Solomon's officers, in Kings, of Jews married to Gentiles, in Ezra, -of Ezra's fellow-travellers from Babylon, in Ezra, of the Jews who returned from BabyLevi and the line of the priesthood-Judah lon with Zerubbabel, in Ezra and Nehemiah, and the line of the kings-King Saul-various of priests who returned from Babylon, in families in Chronicles-the sacred orchestra, Nehemiah,-of those who dwelt in the rebuilt Jerusalem, in Nehemiah. and of Ezra,

HIS EXISTENCE,

GOD.

Proved by the beauty, harmony, and wisdom of the works of creation, denied only by fools! characterized by majesty, immortality, felicity, unity, incomparability, and glory.

HIS NATURAL ATTRIBUTES,

Spirituality, God is a Spirit, invisibility, forbidding all image worship, eternity, infinitude, and comprehensibility, omnipresence, power, omniscience, possessing a perfect knowledge of everything present and future,-instanced in the revelations He has made-human thoughts, characters, actions, and circumstances, immutability, I change not.

HIS MORAL ATTRIBUTES, Holiness, holiness predicated, 1. of persons, His Spirit, Son, angels, priests, prophets, people-2, of places, His throne, heaven, dwelling-place, hill, mountain;-3, things, His oracle, promise, covenant, law, Scriptures, calling, Sabbath, name,-justice, truth, goodness, and mercy according to which He deals with ainful creatures, manifested in the form of pity, compassion, kindness, and longsuffering often the theme of divine promise, the ground of His people's confidence, and the frequent subject of their prayer and praise.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM,

belongs to man—of human organs, as the face, hand, arm, back, eyes, nostrils, mouth, and etc. 3. Human appearance and motion, instanced feet. 2. Human feelings, as repentance, sorrow, in the lives of Abraham, Moses, Solomon. 4.

Human voice instanced in the communications made to Elijah and the prophets. Tokens of divine appearance-Fire, light, and sometimes by darkness conjoined, as when Jehovah appeared to Israel on Mount Sinai.

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(See under REDEMPTION.)

THE TRINITY.

The divine Being existing in perfect unity of essence, yet subsisting in three persons, having the same natural and moral perfections and the same majesty and glory-instanced in the apostolical benediction, in the formula of baptism, etc.

(For Divinity of Christ see under JESUS CHRIST.)

(For Divinity and Personality of the Holy Ghost, sec under REDEMPTION.) xxxix

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CONSULTATION OF IDOLS,

With a view to ascertain the result of wars, journeys, and undertakings-a variety of forms of witchcraft, divination, necromancy, magic, sorcery, etc., placed on the same ground as idolatry by Moses, and pronounced to be vanity and delusion.

IIL-NAMES OF IDOLS,

[JESUS CHRIST.

Anammelech, Nibhaz, Tartak, Ashima, Nergal, Succoth-benoth, Ashtaroth, Baal, Baalberith, Baalim, Baal-peor, Baalzebub, Bel, Berith, Chemosh, Chiun, Dagon, Diana, God Merodach, Nebo, Nisroch, Queen of Heaven, of forces, Jupiter, Mercurius, Milcom, Molech, Remphan, Rimmon, Tammuz, and the Un

known God.

IV. SIN AND GUILT OF IDOLATRY.

The law prohibited the making of any image, required groves to be cut down, altars to be broken and overthrown, forbade the worship of images on any pretext.

PENALTY OF IDOLATRY.

Death by stoning-spiritual judgments, as God's curse, the hiding of his race, the destruction of the temple, with the discontinuance of its services, etc., and national punishm nts, as, war, famine, captivity, civil discord.

HUMAN PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY.

Inflicted by pious kings and others, with a view to extirpate it, instanced in Jacob, Gideon, David, Jehu, Asa, Hezekiah, Manas

seh, Josiah, etc.

V-INCONSISTENCY OF IDOLATRY, The idols made by ordinary craftsmen, out of ordinary materials, being without consciousness or sense, or power of motion; early prevalence of idolatry, instanced in the family of Abraham-the obstinate attachment to idolatry, instanced in Israel worshipping the golden calf within sight of the glory of Sinai.

REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF OPPOSITION TO

IDOLATRY,

Recorded of Naaman the Syrian, after he was cured by the prophet of his leprosy, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and of others, of whom it is predicted that they will cast their

Mentioned in Scripture are-Adrammelech, idols to the moles and to the bats.

I. HIS DIVINITY.

JESUS CHRIST.

I-NAMES OF GOD GIVEN TO HIM.

The incommunicable name, Jehovah, the Lord (Jehoval) of hosts, the Lord (Jehovah) our righteousness, the mighty God, the true God, God blessed for ever. God our Saviour, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, etc.

II. HIS RELATION TO THE FATHER. Described as God's Son, His only begotten Son, His beloved Son, His image, His equal, His Shepherd, His fellow; one with the Father, so that he who hath seen Him hath seen the Father, while on the other hand what belonged to the Father belonged to Him

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