A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part PH
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Phaleg]
A division. (It cometh of foreign, … divided whence foreign, a river or … divided, and foreign, a …, compounded of foreign, he divided, & foreign, a Husband, as alienating the Husband from the Wife, and dividing him as it were into two parts, whereof she challengeth one for her selfe.) The Son of Heber, Luk. 3. 35.
Phallu]
See Pallu.
Phalti]
Deliverance or banishment. The Son of Laish, 1 Sam. 25. 44. called Phaltiel, 2 Sam. 3. 15.
Phanuel]
Seeing God, or the face of God. The Father of Anna the Prophetesse, Luk. 2. 36.
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;;A name common to all the Kings of Aegypt, till the beginning of the Greek Monarchy, as Ptolemy was afterward: It signifies free, and an avenger; the … in respect of himselfe the latter in respect of his Subjects whom Kings ought to judge, and to take vengance of evill doers, Rom. 3. 4.
It signifieth also spreading abroad, uncovering, or making bare; or after the Syrian, vengeance, or revenging; and in the Aegyptian a King.
There were divers of this name.
1. Gen. 12. 17.
2. Gen. 41. 1.
3. Exod. 1. 8.
4. Exod. 5. 1.
5. 1 King. 7. 8.
6. Surnamed Necho, 2 King. 23. 29.
7. Surnamed Hophra, Jer. 44. 30.
I have compared thee, O my Love, to a … of Horses in Pharaohs Chariots, Cant. 1. 9. The Church being sent forth by Christ in the footsteps of the flock to feed her Kids besides the tents, (or dwellings) of the Shepheards, was presently to look for troubles in it self, Act. 20. 29, 30. and opposition at the hands of those companions, (forementioned, vers. 7.) and their flocks (as the Scripture often speaketh of contention among Sepheards, about the feeding and watering of their flocks, Gen. 13. 6, 7. & 26. 14, 15, 20, 21. Exod. 2. 16, 17. see also Jer. 9. 2, 3, 4.) To comfort therefore against such troubles, the Lord compareth her to a company of Horses in Pharaohs chariots, under this similitude, promising her victory, as in Zech. 10. 3. Aynsw.
My Horses in the Chariots of Pharaoh: the Palfries His, the chariots Pharaohs, what is this, but that the Spirit of strength and speed it is Christs; and that the untoward flesh (which is to be drawn by the same divine Spirit) it is of the world and the very chariot of …. Soul and body (as wheels and axeltree) doe run which way the Devil driveth till the stronger man (Jesus) hath freed our chariot-nature from that … of Hell, and so withall doth joyn himself by his own Spirit unto our nature, that so (with Ezekiels chariot) it may goe forth and return, as his divine Spirit instincteth. ….
Pharez]
A division. The Son of Juda, Luk. 3. 33. Gen. 46. 12. Of him was the Family of the Pharezites, Numb. 26. 20.
Pharisee]
;;An Order or Sect of men, separate and divided from other by opinion of singular holiness, Mat. 5. 20. Luk. 18. 11.
There are three opinions concerning the Etymologie of this word.
The 1. of those who derive it from foreign, Parash, expandere, explicare; either from the enlarging and laying open their Phylacteries; or from their open performance of good works in publick view of the people, as being ambitious of mans praise.
The 2. of them who derive it from foreign, exponere, explanare; because they were of chief repute, and counted the profoundest Doctors, for the exposition of the Law, so that they were tearmed …, quia …, Pharisees, because they were Expounders of the Law.
The 3. of such as derive the name from the Verb, but in the Conjugation Piel, where it signifieth dividere, separare, to separate. In this acception by the … they were … foreign, we may English them Separatists.
The particulars unto which they separated, were,
1. To the study of the Law in which respect they might be called foreign, separated unto the Law. In allusion unto this, the Apostle is thought to have styled himselfe, Rom. 1. 11. foreign, separated to the Gospel, when he was called from being a Pharisee, to be a Preacher of the Gospel, and now not separated to the Law, but to the Gospel. …
1. To an extraordinary sanctity of life above other men, Luk. 18. 11.
The particulars from which they separated, were,
1. Commerce with other people, Joh. 7. 49.
2. The apparell and habit of other men.
3. The customes and manners of the world.
Touching their opinions.
1. They ascribed some things to fate, or destiny, and some things to mans free will.
2. They confessed that there were Angels and Spirits, Act. 23. 8.
3. Concerning the resurrection of the dead, they acknowledged it and taught, that the souls of evill men deceased, presently departed into everlasting punishment but that the souls of good men passed by a kinde of Pythegorean foreign into other good mens bodies. Hence it is thought that the different opinions concerning our Saviour did arise, Mat. 16. 14. as if his body had been animated by the soul either of John Elias, or Jeremias.
4. They did stifly maintain the … of their Elders; namely,
1. They would not eat untill they washed their hands, Mat. 15. 2.
2. When they came from the Market they washt, Mar. 7. 4. Luk. …. 38.
3. They washed their cups, and pots, and brasen vessels, and tables Mar. 7. 4.
4. They fasted twice in a week, Luk. 18. 12.
5. They held it unlawfull to eat with sinners, Mat. 9. 11.
6. They made broad their Phylacteries, and enlarged the borders of their garments, Mat. 23. 5.
Of them there were seven sorts.
1. Sichemita,
2. ….
3. Impingens.
4. Quid … facere, & faciam illud.
5. Mortarius.
6. Ex amore.
7. Ex ….
Of all which, see Goodwyn his Moses and Aaron, lib. 1. cap. 10. p. 44 — 56.
Pharisee]
One of the chief pharisees, Luk. 14. 1. The Pharisees which are so oft mentioned in the Gospel, were a particular … in their Religion, and that an improvement of the foreign, or Hasidei as they were foreign, 1 Mac. 2. 42. Those that voluntarily performed some things which the Law required not, and were contrary to the … or …, who were for that onelyonly which was commanded by Law) forming those things into doctrines or precepts and oblieging all the performance of them, which the … performed as Free-will offerings, and so divided themselves from the rest of the profane world, which did not as they did; nay, from the … themselves (who performed as much as they but did not think themselves or others oblieged by Law to do so) and therefore were called foreign, Pharisees, foreign, separate or divided from other men; and by St. Paul, foreign, a sect that required the most exact performances of any. By this it appears that these were not any order or sore of men setled by Law, which had foreign, or Rulers over them; but onelyonly a sect, of which some of all orders of men were, and indeed a prevailing sect, taken up by most of the chief men of the Nation, the Elders in the great Counsel or … in Jerusalem, and the Rulers in the Consistories, in other Cities, which therefore are called foreign, Rulers, and those Rulers, Pharisees, one of whom is here spoken of, and styled foreign, one of the Rulers that were Pharisees. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.
Pharosh]
Ezr. 8. 3.
Pharpar]
Diminished, the fructifying of fruit; or a bull of a bull. A River of damascus, 2 King. 5. 12.
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Neh. 7. 52.
Phebe]
Cleer, or bright, or the moon. The name of a godly woman, Rom, 16. 1.
Phenice]
Red, purple, or palm. A Countrey of Syria, where … and Sidon are placed, Act. 11. 19. Also, an Haven of Candie, Act. 27. 12.
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The same. Act. 21. 2.
Phibeseth]
The mouth of treading underfoot, despite, or from the mouth. A City in Aegypt. Ezek. 30. 17.
Phicol]
The mouth of all, or the perfection of the mouth. Chief Captain to Abimelech, Gen. 21. 22, 32.
Philadelphia]
The love of the brother, or of the …. A City, to the Church whereof John wrote, Rev. 1. 11. …. 3. 7.
Philadelphia]
Rev. 1. 11. A City of Lydia, as some think; or, as others, of Mysia, or Eolia, having the name from Ptolomeus Philadelphus. Annot.
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Kissing with God. One to whom Paul wrote an Epistle, Philem. 1.
Philetus]
Beloved, or amiable. An Apostate, or, backslider, 2 Tim. 2. 17.
Philip]
A warriour, or warlike, or a lover of horses. An Apostle, Mat. 10. 3. Also one of the seven Deacons, Act. 6. 5. The Evangelist, Act. 21. 8, 9. Also the Brother of … the Tetrarch, Mat. 14. 3. Luk. 3. 19.
Philippi]
Warlike men, or lovers of horses. A City, (so named by Philip, the Father of Alexander the great) Act. 16. 12., To the inhabitants whereof Paul wrote an Epistle, Phil. 1. 1. Who are tearmed Philippians, Phil. 4. 15.
Philstia]
Palestina, the Philistines, Psal. 60. 8. & 87. 4. & 108. 9.
Phillstiim]
Of foreign & foreign makeing ruine. The son of …, The Son of Mizraim, The Son of Ham, The Son of Noah, Gen. 10. 1, 6, 14. Hence the Philestins, covered, to wit, with ashes or dust, Gen. 21. 32, 33. & 26. 1, 14, 15, 18.
Philologus]
A lover of learning; or, a lover of the Word. A godly man, Rom. 16. 15.
Philosophers]
Lovers of wisdome, Act. 17. 18. The learned among the Greeks were thus named. Pythagoras was the first who devised the name, because he thought that no man (but God onelyonly) was wise.
Philosophy]
The love or study of wisdome, Col. 2. 8. Where it is not simply condemned, but in some respects, namely as it doth not contain it self within his bounds, or is not to the glory of God, or as it is vain deceite: and that,
1. When it propoundeth and teacheth devillish things, as the Philosophy of the Pagans did, as in their Magicks, when they taught the divers kindes of soothsayings, conjurings, casting of nativities, and a great part of Judicial Astrologie.
2. When the … and opinions of Philosophers that are false, are justified as true; as, their doctrine of the Worlds …, of the Souls Mortality, the Worship of Angels.
3. When the principles of Philosophy that in the ordinary course of Nature, are in themselves true, are abused to deny things propounded in the Gospel above Nature; as those Maximes, that Of nothing, nothing is made; and that Of privation to a habit there is no regression; and that A virgin cannot conceive, &c.
4. When the truest and best things in Philosophy are urged as necessary to salvation, and imposed as meet to be joyned with the Gospel.
Philosophy may be used not as a Mistresse, but as an Hand-maid unto Divinity. Byfield on Col. 2. 8. p. 30.
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A bold countenance. The Son of Eleazer, Exod. 6. 25. One of the Sons of Eli, 1 Sam. 1. 3.
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Burning. The name of a man, Rom. 16. 14.
Phrygia]
Of foreign, broiling, or scorching by fire, or … of the Sun. A large Countrey of the Lesser Asia, Act. 2. 10. & 16. 6.
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The Servant of Gideon, Joh. 7. 10, 11.
Phut]
Africa, or Lybia. The Son of Ham, Gen. 10. 6. A Countrey, Ezek. 27. 10.
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A pair of bellows. The Son of Issachar, Gen. 46. 13.
Phygellus]
Fugitive. One that turned away from Paul, 2 Tim. 1. 15.
Phylacteries]
;;A thread or band of blew silk in the fringes of a garment, by the beholding whereof, the memory of Gods precepts were kept and preserved; or frontlets of parchment between the eyes, as signes of remembrance. Mat. 23. 5. Make their phylacteries broad. Deut. 6. 8. They shall be as frontlets between their eyes.
In the Gospel they are called foreign, from foreign, to conserve or keep, for by the use of them the Law was kept and preserved in memory. Hereof see Goodwyn his Moses and Aaron, p. 51, 52, 53, 54. where is shewed,
1. What they were.
2. What was written in them.
3. Whence they were so called.
Physician]
;;One that by Art helpeth the decayes and defects of nature, curing bodily diseases by bodily medicines, Mar. 7. 26.
;;2. Christ Jesus, the only Soveraign soul Physition, who by his bloud and Spirit cureth all our spiritual sicknesses. Mat. 9. 12. The whole need not the Physician, but the sick; I come not to call the righteous, &c.
3. Embalmers of dead bodies, Gen. 50. 2.
4. Healers by words and counsel, Job 13. 3.
5. The means of help against destruction, Jer. 8. 22.
6. The Physicians counsel and physick, Mat. 9. 12. Mar. 2. 17. Luk. 5. 31.