A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part RA – Part RE
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RAamah]
A breaking. The Son of Cush, Gen. 10. 7.
Raamiah]
Thunder of the Lord, evill from the Lord; or a fellow; or, the berd from the Lord. One that returned with Zerubbabel, Neh. 7. 7.
Rabbah]
Much, great, a chiding, or a fighting against. A City of Judah, Josh. 13. 25. Another of the Ammonites, 2 Sam. 11. 1.
Rabbi]
;;One that is above others, and instead of a number, Mat. 23. 7. Rabbi, Rabbi. A proud swelling title, wherein the Pharisees gloried very much.
;;This word [Rabbi] by the notation thereof, signifieth one which is in stead of many, or equall to many for his excellency, whether it be one that excelleth in nobility of birth, or in virtuous and valiant exployts or acts, or in learning and knowledge: in this last signification the holy Evangelists doe every where use it, and by interpreters it is rendred in Latine and English, Doctor, or Master. In Mat. 23. 7, 8. Christ challengeth this title as peculiar to himself, checking the ambitious Pharisees because they affected this name.
The Hebrews write, that Rabbi is a more excellent title then Rab, and Rabban more excellent then Rabbi, and the simple name without any title, as Haggi, Zachari, Malachi, was more excellent then Rabban. Goodwyn p. 45.
Rabbith]
A City, Josh. 19. 20.
Rabboni]
Master. Thus Christ called, Joh. 20. 16.
Rabmag]
Dissolving the multitude, or melting. One of the King of Babylon's Princes. Jer. 39. 3, 13.
Rab-saris]
Master, or set over the Eunuches. One of the King of Babylon's Princes, 2 King. 18. 17.
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Master, or set over the drinkers, the kisse of the Master, drinking much; or, a great sack. One sent by the King of Assyria against Jerusalem, 2 King. 18. 17.
Race]
;;The course of Christianity and godlinesse. Heb. 12. 1. Let us run the race.
Also, the course that one runneth, 1 Cor. 9. 24.
Race]
Heb. 12. 1. Let us run the race that is set before us. This race is the course it self wherein we strive by running; for in the Greek it is foreign a strife-race whereby is signified, all kinde of strife in this manner, whether it be by running, wrastling, hurling, or any other way but here he speaks of runing. To run the race, is to strive by runnig, he means especially the strife of our faith, 1 Tim. 6. 12. see 2 Tim. 4. 7. Leighs Annot.
Racha]
;;Some unperfect or broken speech, bewraying an angry and festered minde, as Pish in our english tongue. Mat. 5. 22. Whosoever shall say to his brother, Racha. Howsoever some fetch Racha from the Hebrew word Rach, which signifies to spit; and others from Ric, which is in English light-headed, or empty, upon whom we care not to spit, or to use some light gesture before him in contempt; yet the best exposition is to interpret it of some unperfect and unseemly gesture and behaviour, which may be in the countenance, or mouth, by mowes, or words, as Tush, Fie; or in making an unseemly noise, Eph. 4. 13. or in scoffing, Gal. 4. 29.
One by comparing together, Judg. 9. 4. 2 Sam. 6. 20. 2 Chr. 13. 7. Prov. 12. 11. yeeldeth this Hebrew emphasis of the word foreign, namely, that He is one of that kind of Knaves who wholly spend their time in idlenesse, choosing and desiring the exercise of war, or such kind of life, that they may whore, spoyl, kill; who in publick are ashamed of no basenesse but goe on unto the utmost degree of rashnesse, who will do anything for money, being voyd of faith and honesty, unworthy of the familiarity and society of honest men, notoriously wicked, of whom there is no hope of amendment, at the mentioning of whom, honest men should spit. So foreign signifieth Glass. Philol. sac. p. 299, 300.
Racha]
Mat. 5. 22. foreign is an Hebr. word, and signifies vain or empty, and being applyed to any man, is a word of …, calling him empty, despicable, witlesse fellow. This is here forbidden by Christ, and (as an unsupportable wound to anothers reputation, which is generally prized next to life, often preferred before it) is by him thought fit to be superadded to the old Command of not killing. And this is an elevation of Christs doctrine about the Heathen theologie, which gives leave to reproach and counsels to … words. Dr. Ham. Annot. l.
Rachab, or …]
Mat. 1. 5. That Rachab was the Wife of Salmon, and Mother of boaz, is not set down in the Old Testament, nor mentioned in the genealogie in St. Luke, but recited by this Evangelist, either out of the Cabala or Tradition, or else from some other written Author of sufficient credit among the Jews, as the names of Jannes and Jambres, 2 Tim. 3. 8. and some others appear to have been. Dr. Ham. Annot. c.
Rachal]
To whisper; an Apothecary; or Factor. A City, 1 Sam. 30. 29.
Rachel]
A sheep. The Daughter of Laban, whom he gave Jacob to Wife, Gen. 29. 10, 28. The Benjamitish woman who came of Rachel, Jer. 31. 15. Mat. 2. 18. Rachel weeping for her children, namely led away in to captivity, as making account never to see them, or to have them delivered again, or by the appointment of Herod most barbarously slaughtered. Both the Prophet and Evangelist do hereby imply, what Rachel in likelyhood would have done had she survived at either of those calamities, which those of her issue sustained. Annot.
Raddai]
Ruling, or coming down. The Son of Jesse, 1 Chr. 2. 14.
Rafter]
That which beareth up the roof, or galleries, Cant. 1. 17. marg.
Rafters]
;;Galleries or goodly walks upon the top of Kings houses.
;;2. Every faithful soul which is the habitation of God, or the heavens in which Christ and his Church shall dwell together, Cant. 1. 17. Cant. 7. 5. The King is tyed in the rafters. See Firre, and Galleries.
Ragua]
Heb. foreign, of foreign, a friend, 2 Sam. 15. 37. or foreign, a neighbour, a friend, Prov. 17. 17. The Son of Phaleg, Luk. 3. 35.
Rage]
Choler, wrath, fury, anger, 2 King. 5. 12. The raising up of ones self in a raging manner, 2 King. 19. 28. Isa. 37. 28, 29. Outrage, surpassing indignation, Psal. 7. 6.
To rage]
To assemble tumultuously, Psal. 2. 1. marg. The word foreign, in Act. 4. 25. denoteth pride, rage, and fiercenesse, as of horses that neigh, and rush to the …, bestirring themselves as if they were wood, or mad, Jerem. 46. 9.
This is spoken of the enemies of the Church, Psal. 2. 1. Of the Israelites, with relation unto the Jews, 2 Chron. 28. 9. and as of those and other persons. So of Chariots, Jer. 46. 9. Nah. 2. 4. Sea, Psal. 89. 9. … 1. 15. The water, Luk. 8. 24. Strong drink, Prov. 20. 1.
Ragged Rocks]
Isa. 2. 21. The word ragged is not in the Original, nor is it included in the term here used, which signifies any rock in general, Numb. 20. 8. Psal. 42. 2. Annot.
Rags]
1. Old, worn, cast clouts or cloaths, whether linnen or woollen, Jer. 38. 11.
2. Extreme poverty, or beggery, Prov. 23. 21.
3. Mans righteousness, Isa. 64. 6.
Rags]
As fillby rags, Isa. 64. 6. Concerning the notion of the word here used, and not elsewhere read; as also concerning the notation of it, there is great variety of opinions, even among the Jewish Criticks themselves. Some of them render it, a coat of patches, or rags, a Beggers coat made up of rags of old cloth, worn out, and cast away, from a Chald. word that so signifies. Others, a garment defiled with blood, from a word that signifies prey or spoyl. Gen. 49. 27. For, that garments so taken from ravenous beasts, or by men in sight, are usually such, Gen. 37. 31, 33. chap 9. 5. See Lam. 4. 14, 15. Others a clout of sores; a clour, or rag, pulled off from some matury sore, from a Chald. word so signifying, Lev. 13. 2. Others, the cloth or sheet, mentioned, Deut. 22. 15, 17. from a term that imports testimony. Others, a birth-clout, or cloth used about child-birth, from a Chald. word signifying to bear, or to be with-childe. Others lastly, a cloth or cloth of separations, a menstruous cloth or clout, as coming from a word that signifies both in Hebrew and Chald. as before to put away, or to remove and separate, Prov. 25. 20. Dan. 2. 21. and as having affinity with another word of that notion, Ezek. 7. 19, 20. & 36. 17. and this most pitch upon; The old Latine among others, and our oldest English. Nor is the Greek deemed to intend other, when it rendreth it of a sitting woman, being supposed to have an eye to that of Rachel, Gen. 31. 34, 35. Nor the Chald. who rendreth it an … thing in generall; but hath a word in particular designing this, derived from it. And to some such Ioathsome and nasty stuffe in all likelyhood, doth the Prophet compare the most righteous among the main multitude of his peeople. See ch. 30. 22. Lam. 1. 17. Annot.
Raguel]
The shepherd of God, a friend of God, or the breaking asunder of God. The Father of Hobah, Numb. 10. 29.
Rahab]
Proud, strong, broad, enlarged; or, a street. The Mother of Booz, Mat. 1. 5. Aegypt, Psal. 89. 10. marg. So called (as most think) from the pride and strength thereof, which the word Rahab signifieth. See Rachab.
Raham]
Mercy or compassion,; or, after the Syrian, a friend. The Son of Shema, 1 Chr. 2. 44.
Rail]
To flie upon, 1 Sam. 25. 14. marg. The word foreign, in Mar. 15. 29. & Luk. 23. 39. is in 1 Cor. 4. 13. rendred to desame; and in Jude v. 8. to speak evill of; and in Rom. 3. 8. wrongfully blame, … to report of. The word foreign (whence foreign, a …, 1 Cor. 5. 11.) is to rise in a mans … with many bitter words; to revile, 1 Per. 2. 23. Of foreign people, & foreign, to beat; or, foreign; whose speeches wound as a spear.
Railer]
;;An evill speaker, which upbraideth others with their true faults, in a reproachful manner; or else casteth upon them false crimes to defame them. 1 Cor. 6. 10. Extortioners, Railers.
Railer]
Or a Railer, 1 Cor. 5. 11. That foreign signifies a railer or … … speaker, there is no doubt; but that it signifies reproachfull actions as well as words, there is as little question; and therefore Hesychius that renders it foreign in reference to words renders it foreign, a … person, it may be in respect of actions also. And then it may be here another notation of the Heathen Gnosticks sins of uncleannesse, which in all languages have been civilly exprest by words that note contumely, or reproach. If this be not it, it may then, according to the ordinary use of the word for reproachfull speeches, refer to the uncharitablenesse of the Gnosticks, in accusing the Christians, and so stirring up persecutions against them. Dr. Hamm. Annot. ….
Raiment, or cloathing]
;;That which covereth the body, and desends it against heat and cold, called garments. 1 Tim. 6. 8. Having food and rayment. The use whereof is comeliness and warmth.
;;2. All things needful for this present life to sustain it well. Isa. 3. 6. Thou hast cloathing, (or rayment) be thou our Ruler.
Some was of purple, Judg. 8. 26. Some of needle-work, Psal. 45. 14. Some of Camels hair, Mat. 3. 4.
Cloathed in white rayment, Rev. 4. 4. In token not of innocency only, but honour also and triumph, Chap. 3. 4. & 7. 14. Annot.
To rain]
;;To pour down water plentifully out of the clouds, to refresh the earth withall, Deut. 28. 12.
;;2. To give plentifully. Psal. 78. 24. He rained down Manna. Vers. 27. He rained down flesh; that is, he gave it liberally, like rain.
That it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie, Rev. 11. 6. An allusion unto 1 King. 17. 1. Luk. 4. 25. Jam. 5. 17. 18. It may be understood of restraining the rain: or, spiritually, of shutting men out of heaven, Mat. 16. 19. Joh. 20. 23. Annot.
Not to rain]
;;To send scarcity of earthly blessings, Isa. 5. 6.
Rain]
;;The fruitfulness of the earth, follows moderate seasonable rain. Mar. 5. 45. He sendeth rain on the just and unjust; or showers, Psal. 72. 6. or waters, Job 5. 10.
;;2. The doctrine of the Word, which falling upon the consciences of men, doth refresh and make them fruitfull, as rain doth the grasse. Deut. 32. 2. My doctrine shall drop as the rain.
This God hath decreed, Job 28. 26. prepareth, Psal. 147. 8. giveth, Job 5. 10. Isa. 30. 23. and upon occasion withholdeth, Amos 4. 7. It's also given both in mercy, Psal. 68. 9. and in judgement, Prov. 28. 3. Ezek. 38. 22. Ezr. 10. 9.
It's spoken of Bread, Exod. 16. 4. Gods fury, Job 20. 23. Snares, Psal. 11. 6. Righteousnesse, Hos. 10. 12. Brimstone and fire. Gen. 19. 24. Hail, Exod. 9. 22. Manna, Psal. 78. 24. Flesh, lb. 27.
Twice in a year there fell store of rain in Israel, in the beginning of the year, about September or October; and half a yeer after, which was in Abib, or March, which Ecclesiastically began the year unto Israel, whereupon it is called the lattr rain in the first monethmonth, Joel 2. 23. The first rain fell after the sowing of their corn, that it might take rooting in the earth: the latter rain was a little before harvest, that the ear might be full. Aynsw. on Deut. 11. 14. See Hos. 6. 3. Zech. 10. 1. Jer. 5. 24.
Rain]
Heb. 6. 7. the earth which drinketh in the rain. All is an Allegory. The earth is man, Jer. 22. 29. The rain Gods Word, Deut. 32. 2. Amos 7. 16. The hearbs are Graces, and the blessing is a sweet retribution and accumulation of mercy, Id. ibid.
Rain gone away]
;;The passing away of the Winter, approach of the Spring.
;;2. The translating or passing of a soul from the estate of corruption, unto the estate of grace, Cant. 2. 11. Behold, Winter is past, the Rain is changed, and gone away. Rain is over, or is changed, that is, past away, and fair weather come in the place. Rain in winter is an hinderance of travel, or going abroad, Ezr. 10. 9, 13. This (with the former winter is past) may be applyed to outward troubles and grievances in this life by the malice of the world, as when Israel was in the bondage or Egypt and of Babylon, and after were released; likewise to the spritual winter rain and rage of Antichrist, after which the graces and fruits of the Gospel began to flourish again. May also signifie the afflictions of soul, wherein fears land sorrows are stirred up like tempests by the wrath of God, caused by sin, discovered and stirred up by the law, Rom. 3. 20. & 4. 15. & 7. 5, 8, 23, 24. All which by Christs coming are done away, Rom. 7. 25. See Isa. 32. 2. Rom. 5. 1. Isa. 4. 6. Rev. 7. 16, 17. Aynsw.
Or, the storms, for the Hebrew word signifies a great rain, which are usual in Winter: These God showreth down upon the wicked, Ezek. 38. 22. and sometimes his own people are beaten with them, but they shall not continue upon them. There is a bow in the clowd, so that it shall not overwhelm them; his Ark shall get above the waters, and be preserved from the winde and tempest, Isa. 32. 2. Annot.
A plentifull rain]
;;The blessings of God abundantly bestowed on the Israelites in Canaan, which is here called the Inheritance of God, because it was Gods free gift to the people of the Jews, Psal. 68. 10.
Rain-bow]
called a Bow for the likenesse, and Rain-bow, because it is in the cloud in the day of rain; and Gods bow, for the wonderfulnesse thereof, and for the Sacramental signe by his special ordinance; which therefore the Heathen Poets called Thaumantias, as being the work of the wonderful God. Aynsw. on Gen. 9. 13.
Rain-bow upon his head]
;;That Testimony or Sacrament which was between God and Man, of his Covenant touching the destroying of the world by water. Whereas Christ had his Rain-bow … this head, it serveth to testifie not only his fidelity in keeping promise, but his mercy also toward his faithful Servants, in chasing away storms, and clearing the boysterous sky, making calme, and giving rest after heavy times, and tempestuous. Rev. 10. 1. And a rainbow upon his head.
A sign of reconciliation, an assurance that he will remember his Covenant. Gen. 9. 15. See chap. 4. 3. Where in the description of Christs sitting in his throne, there's mention made of the Rain-bow, that we may acknowledge that the throne of Christ is compassed with mercy, and that he shews in his countenance, when he manifests himself to his. The Rain-bow is a sign of Gods Covenant of Grace and mercy toward his Church, which is alwayes fresh and green. Leighs Annot.
Rainy]
A rainy day, Prov. 27. 15. A day wherein there's store of rain.
To raise]
;;To lift up, or set up something which is down or faln.
;;2. To make a body which is dead, and faln into the grave, to live and rise again. Act. 2. 24, 32. Whom God hath raised up. Joh. 6. 40. I will raise them up at the last day.
;;3. To make a soul which is spiritually dead, to live unto God, and to arise unto a new and godly life, in hope of eternal life, Rom. 6. 4. Eph. 2. 5.
;;4. To restore and lift up such as be faln into calamities. Psal. 113. 7. He raises the needy out of the dust. 1 Sam. 2. 6.
5. To receive, Exod. 23. 1. marg.
6. To give and bestow, Deut. 18. 15, 18.
7. To beget, Deut. 25. 7.
8. To ordain and appoint, Exod. 9. 16.
9. To hold up and keep in remembrance, Ruth 4. 5.
10. To make to stand, Psal. 107. 25. marg.
11. To awake, or stir up, Cant. 8. 5.
12. To build, Isa. 23. 13.
To raise up]
;;To ascend with Christ into heavenly places, Cant. 8. 5. I raised thee up under the Appletree.
They be the words of the Spouse speaking again to her Beloved, whom she stirred and raised up as out of sleep, by her earnest prayers, as in Psal. 44. 24. stir up, why sleepest thou O Lord? and they that give themselves to prayer, are said also to stir up themselves, Isa 64. 7. ….
Others apply the words to Christ, whose grace alone did and doth raise up his Church distressed and faln. Annot. See Apple-tree.
Raised]
Heb. 11. 35. Women received their dead raised to life again. See 1 King. 17. 22. & 2 King. 4. 35. Annot.
Raiser of Taxes]
;;Seleucus Philopator, who was exceeding covetous, and most outragiously and greedily spoyled his Subjects. Dan. 11. 20. He was poysoned by one Heliodorus.
Raisins]
Pressed grapes, foreign of foreign, to be withered or dryed up. They are very comfortable, 1 Sam. 30. 12. and have been given for the relief of them that have been faint, or in want, 1 Sam. 25. 18. 2 Sam. 16. 1.
Rakem]
Void, vain, or divers pictures. The Son of Sheresh, 1 Chr. 7. 16.
Rakkath]
Emptyness, spittle, or …. A City, Josh. 19. 35.
Rakkon]
A City, Josh. 19. 46.
Ram]
High, or casting away. The Son of Hezron, Ruth 4. 19.
Ram]
When he is angry he beateth the ground with his foot. The elder it groweth, by a kinde of natural wisdome it forsaketh the younger, and maketh choyce of the elder Ewes or females. There is no beast that so much participateth with the nature of the Sun, for from the autumnal equinox unto the vernal, as the Sun keepeth the right hand of the Hemisphere, so doth the Ram lie upon the right side; and in the Summer season, as the Sun keepeth the other hand of the Hemisphere, so doth the Ram lie upon his other side. It was reckoned among the clean beasts, and appointed to be used for a Sacrifice, Exod. 29. 15, 16, &c. Lev. 5. 15, &c. Numb. 5. 8. Hereunto the … Empire is compared, Dan. 8. 3.
Of battering Rams, wherewith to beat down wals, See Ezek. 4. 2. & 21. 22.
Rama, or Ramah]
High, or cust away. A City, Josh. 18. 25. A Countrey, 1 Sam. 19. 23. Mar. 2. 18.
Ramath]
High, or cast away. A City, Josh. 19. 8.
Ramathaim]
The same. A City, 1 Sam. 1. 1.
Ramathite]
Losty, exalted, or cast away. A City of Ramath, 1 Chr. 27. 27.
Ramath-…]
Listing up of the jaw bone. The name of a place, Judg. 15. 17. marg.
Ramath-mizpeh]
The name of a place, Josh. 13. 26.
Rameses]
Thunder, a hitting in the teeth of a moth, blotting out evill, or broken in sunder of a moth. A City in the land of Goshen in Aegypt, Gen. 47. 11. Exod. 1. 11. & 12. 37.
Ramiah]
Exaltation of the Lord. Of the Sons of …, Ezr. 10. 25.
Ramoth]
Seeing, or beholding death. A City, 1 Chr. 37. Of the Sons of Bani, Ezr. 10. 29. One City of this name was situate in Gilead, and accordingly called Ramoth in Gilead, Deut. 4. 34. or, Ramoth Gilead, 1 King. 22. 3.
Rampart]
A fence, Lam. 2. 8. Nah 3. 8.
Ran]
1 King. 18. 35. Heb. went, marg. Ran thorow, 2 Chr. 32. 4. Heb. overflowed, marg.
Range]
Job 39. 8. The choycest things that grow in the mountains, or things that grow in unknown places, that none can finde out but himselfe, the wilde asse. It comes from a word that signifies to search, and intimates that he ranges up and down the hils, and feeds on what he likes. Annot.
To range]
To wander or goe from one place to another, Prov. 28. 15.
Ranges]
Ranks and orders of men that were set to defend the King, 11. 8.
Rank]
Fat, full, Gen. 41. 5. marg. & 22. Place or order, 1 Chr. 12. 33. Joel 2. 7.
Ransome]
;;Satisfaction made, or price made for setting free, or to purchase liberty to a Captive taken in war, or otherwise, and detained by the enemy as Prisoner, till he be ransomed.
;;2. The satisfaction which Christ by his whole obedience to the Law, namely by humbling and submitting himselfe to the death of the Crosse, made to the Justice of God, detaining the elect sinners as Captives in the hand of their enemies, Satan, Sin, Death and Hell. 1 Tim. 2. 9. Who gave himselfe a ransome for us all. By a Synedoche the Scripture called this Ransome, the death, blood, and oblation of Christ, because in his sacrifice and bloodshed on the Crosse, was the accomplishment of his obedience and satisfaction for us, sithence without shedding of blood there is no forgivnesse of sin, Heb. 9. 22. Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 1. 7. 1 Pet. 2. 14.
3. An atonement, Job 33. 24. marg.
Ransome]
I will ransome them, Hos. 13. 14. … them a temporall deliverance from captivity, and a spirituall deliverance from the power of the grave and death. Annot.
The Lord hath ransomed Jacob, Jer. 31. 11. or rescued him. Annot.
Ratha]
Release, medicine, physick, a recreating, or a Giant. The Son of Benjamine, 1 Chr. 8. 2. The Son of Binea, Ib. 37.
Raphu]
The same. The Father of Palti, Numb. 13. 9.
Rapine]
;;A greedy and violent affection of taking and pulling from others that which is theirs. Luk. 11. 39. Full of rapine, or ravening.
;;2. Something which is taken or pulled from others by force and violence, Isa. 3. 4. Rapine is in their houses; that is, spoil, Isa. 62. 10.
Rare]
Dan. 2. 11. Chald. precious, for precious things are rare. Annot.
Rase]
To make bare, Psal. 137. 7. marg.
Rash]
;;Hasty, Isa. 32. 4. marg.
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Headlong, unadvisedly, without discretion or deliberation, Act. 19. 37.
Rasor]
;;A sharp instrument wherewith hair is shaven, and clean cut off by the stumps, Judg. 16. 17. 1 Sam. 1. 11.
;;2. A fierce and cruel enemy, which destroyes and cuts down all, as a sharp Rasor shaves and cuts all bare. Isa. 7. 20. In that day the Lord shall shave with a Rasor, &c. This is meant by the King of Assyria, by whom God would plague Judah, as it is expounded in that Text.
;;Some think this Rasor to have been Tiglath-pileser, who afflicted Abaz by denying help to him, 2 Chr. 28. 20. 21. Some refer this to many Kings, who one after another afflicted the men of Judah, as Senacherib under Hezekiah, Esar-haddon under Manasses, 2 King. 18. 19. 2 Chr. 33. Others, as Piscator, will have this calamity here threatned, to have been inflicted by …, who (like a sharp Rasor) cut very deep, leaving nothing in the whole Kingdome without hurt; with his huge Army overrunning all, destroying King Joakim and Jehojakin, carrying away most precious …, and a number of Captives into Babylon; taking in the City under Zedekiah, whose eyes they put out, and having fettered him in bands of steel, led him away to Babylon, killing his children, burning the Temple and City, &c. as it is declared in 2 King. 24. & 25. Thus by him, all the Ornaments of the Commonwealth from head to beard, all persons from the highest to the lowest, were wasted and taken away. After which time, there should be great scarcity of men, and wildenesse of the Countrey; see Isa. 7. 21, 22, 13, &c.
;;3. A malicious tongue, which secretly woundeth and cutteth ones name, as a Rasor ones flesh. Psal. 52. 2. Thy tongue is like a sharp Rasor, which cutteth deceitfully.
Rate]
A certain rate every day; that is, the portion of a day in his day, Exod. 16. 4. marg.
Rather]
;;See More.
;;1. A word or note of diversity or difference in quantity, Luk. 11. 28.
;;2. A word of contrariety or opposition, put by a Liptote for not, the contrary, Joh. 3. 19.
Rattle]
To make a noyse. The Quiver rattleth against him, Job. 39. 23. that is the arrows out of the … being sent with great force, come singing as it were against him, for the string drawn home causeth a great noyse. Annot.
Raven]
An unclean fowle, Lev. 11. 15. which usually hath its abode in desert places Isa. 34. 11. for whom God provided food, Job. 38. 41. As for its young ones, whom it bringeth forth, Psal. 147. 6. Who being sent forth by Noah out of the Ark, returned no more, Gen. 8. 7. It's in colour black, Cant. 5. 11. It's at perpetuall variance with the Kite, or Glead. When its young ones are able to fly, it driveth them out of the nest, to shift for themselves elsewhere. Though of a ravening nature, yet at Gods command it fed Elijah, 1 King. 17. 4, 6. It was of old consecrated to the Sun, as which by its heat maketh mens bodies black, or tawny. It feedeth on carion, stealeth away things, and hideth them and can imitate any mans voyce. It's very cunning, as by putting … stones into a vessel wherein some water is, that by degrees it may ascend; By flying on high with an oyster, or shell-fish, and letting the same fall upon a rock or stone, &c. may appear. They love … grounds, not barren, and may be tearmed, Purgers of lands, as by whom the worms are devoured. In the Summer they are very thirsty, yet being against their health, they abstain therefrom for divers dayes together. Their … is said to be a signe. of rain.
Two or three Colliers going to work, a Crow having snatched somewhat from one of them, the others went on, and were smothered in the pit, before their fellows return from the pursuit of the Raven.
Ravenous]
Nor any ravenous beast, Isa. 35. 5. Heb. a ravenous of beasts. The word signifieth a burgler, one that breaketh into houses to rob and spoyl or murder and mischief, Ezek. 7. 22. & 18. 10. Hos. 4. 2. Mic. 2. 13. More … rendred robbers, Jer. 7. 11. alluded, to, Joh. 10. 1, 8, 10. here used for any ravenous creature: such among wilde beasts as these are among men; ravenous, or ravener (for the word is …) … beasts, that is not one that in a …, … … and spoyl of other beasts (though such commonly so doe) but one among beasts that is so qualified, or so practiseth; as choise of Firs and Cedars, is not the choyce that others make of Cedars, but the choyce ones among them, ch. 37. 24. Jer. 22. 7. Annot.
Calling a ravenous bird from the East, Isa. 46. 11. Cyrus from Persia, lying to the East of Babylon, ch. 41. 2, 25. who should come swiftly and … upon Babylon, as an Eagle or Vulture upon his prey, Job 9. 26. By either of which also Cyrus might be resembled, in regard of his hooked nose like an Eagles or Vultures beak; which was in him so notable, that it brought men so marked in much repute among the Persians. Annot.
To ravin]
Applyed to the enemies of David and Christ, Psal. 22. 13. to false Prophets, Ezek. 22. 27. Mat. 7. 15. to the Scribes and Pharisees, Luk. 11. 39. who herein were as Lions and Wolves, who were properly said to ravin, Ezek. 22. 25. Mat. 7. 15. Gen. 49. 27. as who tear their prey, the Lion filling his den therewith, Neh. 2. 12.
Ravin]
Spoyl, Neh. 2. 12.
Ravish]
To force; which may be understood both spiritually, Cant. 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart, or taken away my heart, marg. and corporally; in a good sense, when one is taken with the love of his Wife. Prov. 5. 19. And be thou ravisht alwayes with her love. Heb, Erre thou alwayes in her love, marg. In a bad, when one lusting after a Woman, forcibly deflowreth her, Prov. 5. 20. Lam. 5. 11.
To be ravished in the Spirit]
;;To be moved and led by a sweet holy motion of the Spirit, to see and understand hidden things, far exceeding humane capacity and wit. Rev. 1. 10. I was ravished in the Spirit on the Lords day. Thus the ancient Prophets, thus Paul, 2 Cor. 12. were made fit and capable of heavenly visions, even as John is here, having the Spirit for his guide and teacher.
I was in the Spirit]
In a spiritual rapture and …. Ezek. 3. 12. Act. 10. 10. & 22. 17. 2 Cor. 12. 2, 3. By the Spirit of God taken off from the sense and regard of outward things, that I might wholly attend the vision ensuing. Annot. The word ravished is not in the last Translation, but in the Genevah.
Raw]
Lev. 13. 15. living. The Greek translate sound or whole, Aynsw.
That raw whereof the Law warneth us (Exod. 12. 9.) is flesh whereon the fire hath begun to work, and it is roasted a little, but not fit for man to eat as yet. Aynsw,
Raw, not sodden, 1 Sam. 2. 15.
R E.
Reach]
To shoot through, Exod. 26. 28. Of this word, the barre here mentioned hath the name in Hebrew, which signifieth flying, to speedy passing through. Aynsw.
To be, Exod. 28. 42. marg.
By the words annexed hereunto the meaning may be known.
Her sins have reached to heaven]
Rev. 18. 5. Gr. followed. They were as it were one laid upon another, to make a mount to reach up to heaven, and cry for vengeance, Gen. 18. 20, 21. & 19. 13. Ezr. 9. 6. Jonah 1. 2. Jer. 51. 9. The least sins reach to heaven: God knoweth them all: but the phrase is commonly used of great sins, that will pull down sudden judgement. God is compared to a patient man, who passeth by many smaller faults, in his servants, without taking notice, as not being willing to punish them, which he should do, if he took notice of them; yet when some great fault is committed, then he calleth his servant to account for it, and punisheth him. Annot.
To read]
;;To recite distinctly the syllables and words of Scripture. Reading is nothing else, but such a recitall and speaking forth the letters and syllables. Luk. 4. 6. He took the book and read. Act. 15. 21. Moses in every Synagogue hath such as read him. 1 Tim. 4. 13. Attend to reading. Reading is not the Word of God, but an action about it: neither is it Preaching in the proper acception.
There's private reading, being lawfull for all; The Prince, Deut. 17. 19. The people, Eph. 3. 4. Strangers, Act. 8. 28. There's also publick reading, which was sometime by the Prince, Josh. 8. 34, 35. 2 King. 23. 2. 2 …. 34. 30. but commonly by Ecclesiasticall persons, Neh. 8. 3, 8, 18 & 9. 3. & 13. 1. Col. 4. 16. 1 Thess. 5. 27.
Readinesse]
foreign, Act. 17. 11. & 2 Cor. 8. 11. but in v. 12. it's rendred a willing mind, & v. 19. a ready minde, & ch. 9. 2. frowardnesse.
Ready]
Fit, prepared, Exod. 19. 11. Furnished, well appointed, Numb. 32. 17. Neer, Eccl. 5. 1. Convenient, 2 Sam. 18. 22. marg.
To be ready]
1. Well … and inclined, Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 5. 2.
2. Neer at hand, 1 Pet. 1. 5. & 4. 5.
3. Ably furnished, 1 Pet. 3. 15.
Ready to be delivered]
;;One being in travell neer unto childe birth. Rev. 12. 1. And was pained ready to be delivered. Some expound this both of the Virgin Mary (that blessed woman the mother of Christ:) and also of the Church of the Jews, who by their vehement and servent desire and expectation of the Messiah, were after a sort in pain and travell to bring him forth. This is a godly sense; but because in ch. 4. 1. John shews, that not things past before, but things to be done after, were the subject of this Prophesie, from ch. 3. forward: therefore their exposition is more fit, who interpret it of the Christian Church labouring and groaning under the cruelty of Heathenish persecutors, being pained with grief, to see some one of her children, which might be a defender of her against such injuries. And this hapned when … the Great reigned and put an end (at least a good stop) to the bloody proceeding of the Romane Emperors.
Ready to die]
;;Such as through weaknesse and sinfull infirmities, are likely and neer (… … and diligent looking to) to fall into the destruction of death. Rev. 3. 2. Strengthen the things that are ready to die.
To make ready]
To binde, 2 King. 9. 21. marg.
Reajah]
The vision of the Lord. The Son of Shobal, 1 Chr. 4. 2. The Son of Micah, 1 Chr. 5. 5. See Ezr. 2. 47. & Neh. 7. 50.
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Kingdome, 2 Chr. 20. 30. Many Kingdomes, as Persia, Media, Babylonia, &c. Ezr. 7. 13, 23. Dan. 6. 3.
To reap]
;;To gather the fruits of the earth, as corn, hay, &c. Jam. 5. 4. Lev. 23. 10.
;;To take such gains and fruits of out work, as the nature of the work is, good or evill, Gal. 9. 8, 9. 2 Cor. 9. 6. Prov.
He that soweth iniquity, shall reap affliction.
3. To receive profit, or reward, Matth. 25. 21. Gal. 6. 9.
Toreap]
;;To cut down Corn at the time of ripenesse, which we commonly call harvest.
;;2. To abrogate and abolish the wicked idolatrous worship in this world, by such instruments as God ordained to do it in his due time; and by his Son Christ to judge and destroy the ungodly at his second coming to judgement, when the wickednesse of the world will be fully ripe, Rev. 14. 15. Thrust in thy sickly and reap, for the time is come to reap,
To reap corruption]
;;To receive for his reward, the fading corruptible things of this world, and eternall destruction in the end. Gal. 6. 8. Shall of the flesh reap corruption.
Reapers]
Harvest men, 2 King. 4. 18. Angels, Mat. 13. 39.
Rear]
To erect, raise, …, or build up. Spoken of the Tabernacle, Exod. 40. 17. Images, Lev. 26. 1. A pillar, 2 Sam. 18. 18. The Temple, Joh. 2. 20. An Altar unto the Lord, 2 Sam. 24. 18. Altars for Baal and Baalim, 1 King. 16. 32. 2 King, 21. 3. 2 Chr. 33. 3.
Reason]
;;That faculty and power of the soul, whereby we debate and discourse of things and objects, that we may be able soundly to judge of that which we rightly understand.
;;2. The use of this faculty, to wit, discretion. Act. 25. 27. … thinks it is against reason; that is, against discretion, or very absurd.
;;3. The cause and ground of a thing. 1 Pet. 3. 15. To them which ask of you a reason of that hope which is in you.
Reason]
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? Job 15. 3. the word signifies,
1. To reason a case by answers and replies, chap. 6. 25.
2. To convince, confute, or reprove such as are in the wrong, ch. 6. 26.
3. To correct or scourge one for sin, Psal 6. 1.
Here it is taken in the first …. Annot.
It signifieth also to conferre, discourse, dispute, contend, debate about a businesse, Mat. 16. 8. Mar. 8. 16. Act. 17. 2.
Reasonable service]
;;The spiritual sacrifice of a Christian, offering not the bodies of beasts, which have no reason (as they were wont to do under the Law) but himselfe wholly (being a reasonable thing) as a sacrifice unto God, his Creator and … (which is a most reasonable thing) to doe him service and obedience in all things, according to his revealed will (which is a very reasonable rule) Rom. 12. 1. Which is your reasonable service of God.
Or, That for which we are able to give a sound and intelligible reason, 1 Pet. 2. 5.
Reasonable or ration all service]
Rom. It may possibly be such as will be agreeable to the notion of foreign the …, as it signifies Christ, and then it's the Christian …. It may be as foreign signifies the … or Scripture, and then it will be that worship which is perscribed us in the Scripture; and so the Syr. seems to understand it, setting down for foreign, secundum … verbi according to the … of the Word, i. e. such as the Word prescribes. It may be as foreign …, is opposed to foreign Law, and then it will be the Evangelicall worship. And once more it may note such a worship of God as is most agreeable to reason, and such as a rationall man will resolve to be most agreeable to so excellent and pure a Deitie. But the circumstances of the place, and opposition to the sacrifices of the Law, the beasts that were offered there, seem to restrain it to the vulgar and ordinary notion of foreign, rationall, in opposition to the irrationall sacrifices under the law, as foreign, living before to the dead bodies among them. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.
Reasoning]
;;An evill discourse or disputing against God, or his Word, Phil. 2. 14. Let all things be done without reasonings. Matth. 15. 19. Out of the heart come evill reasonings.
Reasons]
Understandings, Job 32. 11. marg.
Reba]
The fourth, or lying by. A King of Midian, Numb. 31. 8. Josh. 13. 21.
Rebekah]
Fed, blunt, contention, or … hindred. The Daughter of Bethuel, Gen. 22. 23. given in mariage to Isaac, Gen. 24. 67.
To rebel]
;;To fight or make war against his lawfull Soveraigne, as Absolon rebelled against his Father David; or to cast off the yoake of a lawfull Governour, as Corah and Abiram, Numb. 16. 1, 2.
;;2. To strive or raise up against the goverment of the Spirit, in the minde of a regenerate man, Rom. 7. 23. A law in my members, rebelling against the law of my minde. Thus sin rebelleth against ….
;;In the Old …, Rebellion cometh of an Hebrew word [Marah] which signifies bitterness properly, and is applyed to Apostasie, Rebellion and Disobedience, Deut. 1. 16. & 21. 20. Josh. 1. 18. Psal. 1. 10. Because Rebelion, is a thing distastfull to God, as bitter things be to our Palate: also, because it provokes unto bitterness and wrath, exasperating God.
Rebell. To transgresse, Isa. 43. 27. (for disobedience and tragression is as rebellion, 1 Sam. 15. 22, 23.) To fall a ay, 1 King. 12. 19. marg. Not to serve, 2 King. 18. 7. To refuse, Isa. 1. 20. To revolt, Jer. 29. 32. marg. To walk in a way that's not good, after ones thought, Isa. 65 2. It's in … the same with, to break the yoake, Jer. 5. 5. To be stif-necked and hard-hearted, 2 Chr. 36. 13. To withdraw the sholder, and harden the neck, Neh. 9. 29. To go on frowardly in the way of his heart, Isa. 57. 17. To turn the back, and not the face, Jer. 2. 27. To … not to hear, nor to obey, Jer. 22. 21. To resist, Act. 7. 51.
Rebellion]
;;An unlawful action of subjects, unlawfully rising in arms against their lawfull Soveraigne.
;;2. Every sin, great and little; which in some sort is a Rebelion, because we all owe allegiance to God by the Law of our Creation, and have vowed it in our Baptisme: and also have so many means against sin, as unlesse we purpose to rebell, we could never so commit it. Isa. 59. 12, 13. We have spoken of cruetly and rebellion.
;;3. Those sins which are more grievous and grosse, being committed through infitmity upon no great temptation as it was in David, Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, not my youth, nor my rebellions.
;;4. Obstinacy aud stiffenesse in grosse sins. Deut. 21. 27. I know thy rebellion, and thy stisfe neck. Deut. 9. 24. Jer. 3. 22. Return and I will heal your ….
Ther's rebellion against the Lord, Numb. 14. 9. against his Word, Psal. 105. 28. against his Spirit, Isa. 63. 10. against an earthly King, Gen. 14. 4. 1 King. 12. 19. 2 King. 1. 1. 2 Chr. 36. 13.
Rebellious]
Against the Lord, Deut. 9. 7. Against Parent, Deut. 21. 18, 20. Spoken of Children, Deut. 30. 1. City, Ezr. 4. 12, 15. Generation, Psal. 78. 8. Heart, Jer. 5. 23. House, Ezek. 2. 5, 6. Nation, Ezek. 2. 3. People, Isa. 30. 9. Princes. Isa. 1. 23. Son, Deut. 21. 18, 20.
A rebellious Son, Dent. 21. 18. The Heb. Moreh signifieth one that changeth or turneth to the worse, both in heart and action, and in particular turneth from and opposeth the Word of God, as Deut. 1. 26, 43. & 9. 7, 23, 24. The Gr. … translateth it contentious; the instance of this rebellion is shewed, v. 20. Aynsw.
Rebels]
Numb. 17. 10. Heb. children of rebellion, marg. The Gr. translateth, the disobedient Sons, meaning the Israelites, called Sons or children of rebellion, because they were so much addicted thereunto, as if Rebellion it selfe had been their Mother. Idem.