A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 2 · Part 110 – Part 111
T. W.
Twelue Angels. sig:
The Keepers which Watch to open the Gates of the New Hierusalem, and to receiue the Cittizens quickly, without delay. Reuel. 21, 12. At the Gates twelue Angels.
Twelue foundations. sig:
The Doctrine of grace, taught the Church first by the twelue Apostles, which were instrumentall and ministeriall foundations (Christ alone beeing the principall Foundation and Head-corner stone, on which, euen the Apostles themselues as liuing Stones are laid) and afterward Preached by al faithfull Pastours in all Ages. Reue. 21, 14. And the wall of the Citty had twelue Foundations.
Twelue Gates. sig:
The ready enterance and easie accesse (as by Gates into an House) which the Children of God, the true Israelites shall finde into the New Hierusalem from aboue. Reuel. 21, 12. And the Wall had twelue Gates. Heere is an allusion to the earthly Ierusalem in Iewry, where the Iewes had free ingresse from all quarters, by twelue Gates.
Twelue Pearles. Sée Pearles.
Twelue Tribes. sig:
The whole number of the faithfull, both Iewes or Gentiles, which walked the steppes of their Father Abraham. Reuel. 21, 12. Which are the twelue Tribes of the Children of Israell.
Twelue fruites. sig:
Variety of fruit, not one kinde, but sundry, yet without satiety. Reuel. 22, 2. Bearing twelue fruits.
Twelue thousand furlong. sig:
The vnmeasurable greatnesse and largenesse of New-Hierusalem, being for multitude of Cittizens without number, very spacious and capacious. Reu. 21, 16. And he measured the Citty Twelue thousand furlongs.
Two Candlestickes. sig:
All the faithfull Pastours of the Church, from whom the light of Gods word shineth vponupon men, as Candlestickes beares out the light which be put on them. Reuel. 11, 5. These are Two Candlestickes.
Two horns sig:
The Two powers, Regall and Pontificall; Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall, which the Pope & Papall Cleargy challenge to themselues, ouer the Emperors and Kinges of the earth. Also, ouer mens soules and consciences, and because they pretend this double power, to bee deriued and receiued from Christ, (though indeede it be from the Dragon) euen from the Deuill of Hell. Therefore bee they called, the [Hornes of a Lamb.] Reu. 11, 13. The Beast had Two hornes, like the Lamb. Some, vnderstand these Two Hornes, of Two French Kinges; Pipinus, and Carolus Magnus, who succoured the Two Popes; Stephanus the second, and Adrian (whom they took to be Innocents, & harmlesse as Lambs) against the Kings of the Lombards: Aristulphus, & Desiderius.
Two & forty months. sig:
Three yeares and a halfe, which is halfe a propheticall weeke, according to Daniell 9. and iumpeth with the other numbers; of a time, Two times, and halfe a time; Also, a thousand, Two hundred, threescore daies. Which seuerall numbers, doe note and point out one thing; to wit, that the time of the tyranny of Antichrist persecuting the Saints, is certaine, fixed and determined, which he cannot passe, and that it shall not bee very long, which greatly maketh for the consolation of the Saintes. Reuel. 11, 2. The holy Citty they shall tread vnderunder-foote Two and forty months. Where these months tooke theyr beginning, and where they are determined, I take not on me to iudge; certain it is, that in these forty two months, eueryevery day is put for a yeare (as in the Prophesie of weeks by Daniell) and eueryevery week for seauen yeare, and eueryevery month to consist of thirtie daies, according to the Aegiptian account; And finally, that it is the whole space of time, wherein Antichrist shall arise, encrease, or waxe; be wounded, reuiue, and take heart againe, to execute his cruelty in that Citty which was the Queene of the World (as it were) where hee and his fauorites should bath themselues in pleasures. Therefore they doe erre, which doe precisely vnderstand these monethes of three yeare and a halfe, where by this number, mystically is fignified, the whole time of Antichrists raigne; which is by the former Computation, twelue hundred threescore yeares.
Two Witnesses. sig:
A competent number of faithfull Preachers, which testifie against the errors of Anti-christ, and for the Doctrine of Christ. Reue. 11, 3. I will giuegive the same to my Two Witnesses. These Witnesses, though few, weake and contemptible, yet shall be a sufficient number to help and confirme one another.
T. Y.
Tyme of the dead. sig:
The tyme, when the Iewes, strangers from Christ, without his Saluation▪ (and therefore truely dead) shall be brought to the knowledge of the truth, according to the Prophesies of Scripture. Reuel. 11, 18. And the tyme of the dead should be iudged. Some, referre this to the last iudgement, when eueryevery one shall be rewarded according to his workes.
Tyme and Tymes, and halfe a Tyme. Sée before in Two and forty months. Reuel. 12, 14.
Tyme is come. sig:
The fit season and opportunity, wherein God, (according to his decree) wil prosper the endeuours of his Seruants labouring in the word. Reu. 14, 15. For the Tyme is come.
Tyme no more. sig:
Tyme shall bee vtterly abolished, the naturall course of Sun and Starres ceasing, whereby yeares, weekes, moneths, and daies, were distinguished. Reue. 10, 6. He swore that Tyme should bee no more. Some, translate for Tyme [Delay] and will hauehave the meaning to be, that there should bee a small delay, no long space of Time til the consummation of the Mystery, and then it doth not signifie the abolition of Tyme, after the consummation and ende of all; but breuity or short space of Tyme, vntill the consummation come. This latter, seemeth better to agree with the circumstances of the Text.