A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part VA – Part VC
V A.
VAgabond]
One that hath no safe nor setled habitation, but wandereth about, as the word read vagabonds in Act. 19. 13. is rendred in 1 Tim. 5. 13. One that rogueth about as a vagabond, Psal. 109. 10. Aynsw.
Vagabonds]
;;Such Companions, as do nothing but walk the streets; which commonly be called the Rascals and Dung-hill knaves of all Towns and Cities. Act. 17. 5. The Jews took unto them certain vagabonds. Also unstable men, who have no certain dwelling for the body, or quietness of minde, being full of fear and trembling, Gen. 4. 12. Psal. 109. 10.
Vaiezatha]
Sprinkling the chamber. Heb. and Syr. woe olive trees. The Son of Haman, Est. 9. 9.
Vail]
;;A certain cloth … before the light, to hide it from our eyes, and put upon womens heads for a Covert, in token of subjection to their husbands. Gen. 24. 65. So she took a vail and covered her.
;;Note. The covering of a womans face or eyes with a vail, was a signe of womanly modesty and shamefastness: as also of subjection or reverence to her Husband, also of his power over his Wife, Gen. 21. 16. & 24. 65. 1 Cor. 11. 10.
;;2. A costly and precious hanging, made of purple and blew silk, scarlet, and fine twined linnen, &c. whereby the Most holy place was divided and separated from the Holy place. Exod. 26. 31, 32, 33. And the vail shall make you a separation from the Holy place, and the Most holy place. This was the Vail that rent in twain at the death of Christ, to shew the determination and end of the whole Levitical and Ceremonial Law, as one saith, In morte Christi omnia legalia terminantur. A bodily, material, and typical vail.
;;This Vail was a figure of the flesh of Christ, which covered his Godhead, and whereby Christ dedicated us a way to Heaven, as it is expounded, Heb. 10. It was replenished with Cherubims, to figure the multitude of Angels serving Christ, even as he is man, and by him as man ascending and descending, Isa. 6. Joh. 1. 51. Also to signifie the manifold graces of the Spirit, and heavenly affections which Christ had in humane nature, and which he communicateth with his, by his Word and Spirit: likewise the heavenly mysteries, which are in Moses Law, right ly understood.
;;3. Blindness, and hardness of heart. 2 Cor. 3. 16. When their hearts shall be turned to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. As the Vail kept from looking upon the things which were in the Holy of holies: so hardness of heart, and unbelief, kept the Jews from acknowledging and submitting themselves to Christ. A spiritual Vail.
;;4. The defence and preservation, which Husbands owe unto and afford their Wives, against the injuries of others. Gen. 20. 16. He is the Vail of thine eyes to all that are with thee, and to all others. A Metaphor. A Civil Vail.
5. A sheet, apron, or cloak, Ruth 3. 15.
6. Christs flesh. Heb. 10. 20. Through the vail, that is to say, his flesh.
Vail]
;;A covering which Virgins did wear, in token of modesty, chastity, and honor; the taking away of this from the Church, was the exposing her to reproach, Cant. 5. 7. The Watchmen of the wals took away my Vail from me.
Or, my Scarse; It hath the name in the Original of spreading, as being spread over her head to cover her. Such veils were worne of Women, partly for ornament, as appeareth by Isa. 3. 23. partly in modesty, and in sign of subjection to men, especially their husbands, 1 Cor. 11. 6, 7, 8, 10. and a husband is to the wife a covering of her eyes, Gen. 20. 16. The taking away therefore of her vail seemeth to be a note of infamy, disloyalty, or dishonesty imputed to her; as of idolatry, heresie, schism or the like, so she was spoyled of her good name and reputation, and counted among the light and lewd women. See Ezek. 23. 25, 26. Aynsw.
An apt symbole either of the pure and decent Government of the Church, which is both her ornament, and her defence, or else of the purity and integrity of doctrine, which when it is torn and corrupted by error, makes her like a vile woman, whose nakedness is discovered, and whose fame and honour is vitiated, Ezek. 23. 25, 26. It is a mercy to have one vail taken away, 2 Cor. 5. 14. but this we should be ever careful to preserve. Annot.
Drawing me on into further errors, spoyling me of that purity and sincerity of profession, wherewith as with some rich and modest vail, I was formerly adorned and covered. Hall.
Vail]
;;The flesh or body of Christ, Heb. 10. 20.
;;2. That hanging or cloth, which divided the holy place of the Temple, from the most holy, Heb. 9. 3.
Hanging vail]
;;Exod. 26. 36. This hung as a dore of the entry of the Tabernacle, through which the Priests of the Law went or passed every day to minister in the Holy place, but the people might not, Heb. 9. vers. 6, 9, 10.
Vails]
Isa. 3. 23. or Robes, or Frocks, or Cassocks. A loose upper garment, so called of spreading, for so signifies the word from whence it comes, 1 King. 6. 32. Annot.
Vain]
;;Something which is not firm and constant, but subject to decay, being of a perishing and vanishing condition. Psal. 108. 12. Vain is the help of man.
;;2. That which misseth of his end, or deceived of his expectation, Rom. 1. 21.
;;3. Unprofitable and needless, of no use, and to no purpose. Psal. 127. 1. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.
4. Wind, vain knowledge, Heb. knowledge of wind. Job 15. 2. marg.
Vain]
…, void, idle, false, as the Original foreign, and foreign signifie. That which wanteth the substance which ought to be in it, whereof notwithstanding it hath a certain shew. That which is not true, but false and deceitful. That which produceth not the expected effect, but doth frustrate the expectation. That which is frivolous, rash, of no moment, or weight. That which is frail, brittle, unconstant, unstable, corruptible. Ravanel.
This is spoken of Bablings, 1 Tim. 6. 20. Beauty, Prov. 31. 30. Conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. Customes of the people, Jer. 10. 3. …, Col. 2. 8. Fellows, 2 Sam. 6. 20. Foolish questions, genealogies, contentions, &c. Tit. 3. 9. Help, Lam. 4. 17. Help of man, Psal. 60. 11. Horse, Psal. 33. 17. Jangling, 1 Tim. 1. 6. Knowledge, Job 15. 2. Life, Eccl. 6. 12. Man, Jam. 2. 20. Men, Judg. 11. 3. 2 Chr. 13. 7. Oblations, Isa. 1. 11. Persons, Judg. 9. 4. Psal. 26. 4. Religion, Jam. 1. 26. Repetitions, Mat. 6. 7. Shew, Psa. 39. 6. Talkers, Tit. 1. 10. Thing, Psal. 2. 1. Thin. s, 2 Sam. 22. 21. (Why should ye go after vain things? i. e. idols, which being empty vanities, and of no worth, do lead men into vanity, and do prove to be just nothing, and unable to give any help in time of trouble to them that trust in them, when they stand in most need, Jer. 2. 9. & 10. 8, 14. Hab. 2. 18. 1 Chron. 8. 4. Deut. 32. 21. Jonah 2. 8. Annot. on 1 Sam. 12. 2.) Thoughts, Psal. 119. 113. Vision, Ezek. 12. 24. Words, Exod. 5. 9. 2 King. 18. 20. About which notwithstanding the speakers were much deceived. This is also applyed unto things sometimes by supposition, as unto preaching and faith, 1 Cor. 15. 14. Sometimes falsly, as when they said, It is in vain to serve God, Mal. 3. 14. Sometimes truly, as, Vain is the help of man, Psal. 108. 12. So unto persons, as To idle, light, unstable and loose companions, Prov. 12. 11. & 28. 19. To the heathen, 1 King. 17. 15. To the wicked, Job 11. 11, 12. To the children of Belial, 2 Chr. 13. 7. To robbers and oppressors, Psal. 62. 10. To Idolaters, Rom. 1. 21. To such as credit false Teachers, Jer. 23. 16.
Vain Idols]
;;Things of nought, of no force or profit. Psal. 96. 5. Their Gods be vain Idols. The Apostle openeth this word, 1 Cor. 8. 4. We know (saith he) that an Idoll is nothing in the world. Elim and Elohim in Hebrew, are Gods of strength and power, so called, Gen. 1. 1. Psal. 82. 1. Elilim be Idols of no strength, without power: so they are called, 2 Chr. 13. 9. as unable to help, and unprofitable, Jer. 10. 5. Isa. 44. 9, 10. And as the name of God is often joyned with things, to shew their excellency, Psal. 36. 7. so of Idols, to shew their vanity, Job 13. 4. Zach. 11. 7. Jer. 14. 14.
In vain]
;;Rashly, without reason, counsel, or due cause. Rom. 13. 4. Beareth not the sword in vain. Magistrates, having their authority from God, do not bear the sword without reason, and when they put difference (in the use of the sword) they do not bear it without counsel and cause: also if their punishments amend the offenders, terrifie the beholders, to fear others from doing evill, then it is not born in vain in regard of successe.
;;2. Without fruit or profit, to no purpose or end. Gal. 3. 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain? And elsewhere often, as Gal. 4. 11. 1 Thess. 2. 1.
;;3. Either to no purpose, upon idle respects, or to wicked purpose, to confirm lies and wickedness, Exod. 20. 7.
Vain words]
A word of lips, Isa. 36. 5. marg.
Vain glory]
;;The opinion, praise, or appl ause of hearers and beholders. Gal. 5. 16. Be not desirous of vain glory. When any say and do things for this end, to win and gain estimation and commendations from men, then they shew themselves men-pleasers, and desirous of vainglory: for it is against all reason and wisdom to seek our own praise, and thereof cometh no fruit but shame.
Vain-glory]
Gal. 5. 26. Ambition, which hath alwayes two companions, backbiting and envy, out of which two it cannot be, but many contentions must needs arise. Annot.
The vanity of appearing to the Jews to be great Zealots. Dr. Ham. Paraph.
Desiring to be accounted rich, eloquent, and good by men. Leighs Annot.
Vainly]
Col. 2. 18. foreign, rashly, without cause or reason, without fruit or profit. See Leigh Crit. Sac.
Vale]
See Valley.
Vale, or Ualley]
There are divers mentioned in Scripture, for some remarkable things. Whereof some were choyce, Isa. 22. 7. Fat, Isa. 28. 4. Flowing, Jer. 49. 4. Others, rough, Deut. 21. 4. desolate, Isa. 7. 19.
Valiant]
Stout, hardy, couragious. A Son of Valour, 1 Sam. 18. 17. marg. 2 Chr. 28. 6. marg.
Valiant]
Heb. 11. 34. Waxed valiant in fight, as Joshua, the Judges, King David, Asa, Jehosaphat, whose warlike successes are ascribed to faith, not arms. Pareus.
Was it not valiantly done of Abraham with the servants of his own house to encounter with five Kings? Was it not valiantly done of little David a young stripling, never acquainted with War, to fight with that huge Giant …, that had been a man of war from his youth up? Jones.
Nothing is so terrible or difficult, but a man, who hath Gods Word to be a ground for his faith, may adventure upon it, with assurance of prevailing. If he be called, he may encounter, with the hardest party. Dickson.
Like a valiant man]
Like many people, Isa. 10. 13. marg.
Valiant men of Israel]
;;Mighty strong men, which were sound and true hearted, right Israelites, Cant. 3. 7. Of the valiant men of Israel.
They figured such strong men as have the Word of God abiding in them, and do overcome the wicked one, 1 Joh. 2. 14. Aynsw. See About it.
Valiantly]
Manfully, stoutly, couragiously, Numb. 24. 18. 1 Chr. 19. 13. Psal. 60. 12. Wonderfully, mightily, victoriously, Psal. 118. 15, 16.
Valley]
A plain, bottom, dale, champian, low countrey.
Valley]
The efficient cause is God, whose power extendeth to the Valley as well as the Hills, 1 King. 20. 28.
It is put for an obstacle and impediment unto the Kingdome of Christ, Isa. 40. 4. Luk. 3. 5. where every Valley that is depressed and rough is said to be exalted and made smooth; i. e. all obstacles shall be removed that hinder the deliverence of Gods people.
Valley of Berachah, 2 Chr. 20. 26. is so called because of the thanksgiving offered to God for the victory obtained by …, against the enemies of God; and therefore it is also called The valley of Jehosaphat, Joel 3. 2, 12. which some take appellatively, for any place where God executeth his judgements upon his enemies.
Valley]
;;A long ground between two hils, being moyst and more fruitful, Cant. 6. 10. I went to the fruits of the Valley.
For fruits of the Valley, some also read the Apples, or the greenness of the streams which use to run among the Valleys, and represent the … and propagation of the Church, wherein Christ delighteth, that he may eat of the labour of his hands, who is the chief Gardener, and Master of the Orchard, Mat. 21. 34. Annot.
Valley of death]
Psal. 23. 4. is, to be as it were in the midst of death, or in greatest danger of death, as the Valleys are in the midst of the Hills.
Valley of Hinnom]
;;A very low place on the East and South part of Jerusalem, so called of the Son of Hinnom: This Valley grew so execrable by the pollution thereof, by slaughter and burial, as Hell was thereof called Gehenna: 1. for the lowness, 2. for the fire which the wicked feel there, 3. for the filth cast there, 2 King. 23. 10. Jer. 7. 31, 32, 33. where it is called Tophet of the timbrels which the bloody Priests used at the sacrificing of children, that the cryes of the dying childe might not move the parents to compassion.
Valley of tears]
Spoken of them who are in extreme misery and affliction, Psal 84. 6. The Hebrews observe that when the word Valley is joyned to an other word, it increaseth the signification of the word, as in the three former words, (judgiment, death, and tears) may appear; whereby is meant exceeding great judgements, danger, and affliction.
Lillie of the Valleys]
Cant. 2. 1. or, of the low, (or deep) places. These were fruitful places where the Kings herds were fed, 1 Chr. 27. 29. And as roses and lillies growing in Sharon, and these Valleys, had more moisture, then those that grew in hills and mountains, so hereby it signified the blessed estate of the Church in Christ, by whose grace it is in low and base estate made sweet and amiable, like the Rose and Lilly, Isa. 35. 1. Hos. 14. 5. But as here is mentioned the plain of Sharon, and the Valleys, which were open places where cattel fed, and not inclosed gardens: so by it may be signified, how the Church is exposed to persecution, to be plucked of all that passe by the way, and troden down, and eaten of Beasts. Aynsworth.
Valour]
Courage, stoutness, applyed commonly to great …, as Gideon, Judg. 6. 12. to Jephthah, Judg. 11. 1. David, 1 Sam. 16. 18. and his Worthies, 2 Sam. 23. 8. It ought to be in men especially for the truth, Jer. 9. 2. both in Ministers of the Word, 2 Chr. 26. 17. Act. 4. 19. & 13. 10. & 17. 17. 1 King. 18. 15, 18, 40. & 22. 14, 19. & 2 King. 11. 4. & 3. 13. and professors, Dan. 3. 12, 16, 17. Mar. 15. 43. Act. 7. 52.
Value]
To esteem of, Isa. 53. 3. 1 King. 10. 21.
It signifieth, To tax, or set a price, Job 28. 17. 19. where wisdom is said to be of a greater worth then that gold and precious stones can be a sufficient price to purchase it. So Mat. 27. 9. out of Zech. 11. 13. Christ is said to be valued at 30 pieces of silver, because that was the price set and agreed upon between Judas and the Priests, to betray him.
Vale]
Worth, esteem, repute, skill, Job 13. 4.
Vaniah]
Nourishment, or weapons of the Lord. Ezr. 10. 35. The Son of ….
Vanish]
To consume away, Job 6. 17. Heb. to be cut off, marg. & 20. 7. To fly suddenly away, Prov. 23. 5. As the dew, Hos. 6. 4. To decay, fade, and wax old, Heb. 8. 8. To be of no use, 1 Cor. 13. 8. To come to nothing, 1 Cor. 2. 6. To abolish and doe away, 1 Cor. 13. 10, 11. 2 Cor. 3. 7, 13, 14. 2 Thess. 2. 8. 2 Tim 1. 10. Hence things that perish suddenly, are said to vanish like smoak. To cease to be seen, Luk. 24. 31. marg.
Vanity]
;;A thing of no force, use, or continuance. 1 Sam. 12. 23. Why will you sallow vanity which profiteth not, nor can deliver? In this sense Idols are often called Vanity, Joh. 2. 8. Psal. 71. 7. Rom. 8. 20. The creature is subject to vanity; that is, to a vanishing and fleeting estate.
Vanity]
Psal. 10. 7. or iniquity, marg. Inconstancy and frailty, Psal. 144. 4. Idols, Deut. 32. 21. A vanishing and fleeting estate, Psal. 39. 5. Lightnesse, Psal. 62. 9. The punishment following iniquity, Prov. 22. 8. Sinfull means, Prov. 13. 11. A thing of no worth, of great uncertainty, Psal. 35. 5, 11. Prov. 21. 6. Unprofitableness, Eccl. 1. 2. Falshood in words, Psal. 12. 2. & 41. 6. That which is not able to help, Psal. 62. 9. A disquieted and troublesome estate about transitory and unprofitable things, Psal. 78. 33. Natural opinions, vain and foolish, Eph. 4. 17. Sinful and foolish, folly, Psal. 94. 11. Prov. 12. 11. 1 Cor. 3. 20. Mans own imaginations, Ezek. 13. 6, 8. Jonah 2. 8. Every deceitful thing, counsel, hope, device, imagination, which bring not our endevours to passe, Psal. 4. 2.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, Rom. 8. 20. foreign, vanity hath a double notion; one, as it refers to the heathen Idols, which being foreign nothings, are called foreign, vain, or vanities, Act. 14. 14. and so vanity here is all their ignorant, filthy Idol-worship, and so it's Eph. 4. 17. and so Rom. 1. 21. & 2 Pet. 2. 18. Another, as it's rendred, wretched, miserable, and both these may seem to be here put together; as the course of the Gentiles, was an idolatrous, villanous, and withal an unhappy, wretched course, to which the Devil had brought them, and God in his just judgements had delivered them up, for their despising the light of nature. Dr. Ham. Annot. h.
Vanity of minde]
Vanity is taken 6 wayes all agreeable to the minde.
1. It signifieth unprofitable, without fruit, Eccl. 2. 22. & 3. 9. Mal. 3 14. So doth the Apostle shew the vanity of the conversation of carnall men, Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had ye of these things whereof now ye are ashamed? the end whereof is death.
2. It signifieth empty, without any substance; as emptinesse is opposed to that which is full, or heavy, or true. As,
1. To fullnesse; so promises not fulfilled are said to be vain promises. Job (ch. 7. 3.) calleth the time of his life moneths of vanity; that is, empty of solid joy, peace or comfort. And Psal. 2. 1. The Gentiles imagine vain things; i. e. empty, without reason or successe. In which sense whatsoever occupyeth the hearts and hands of wicked men, or with whatsoever they are occupied, may justly be said to be vain, as having no solidity but a peace, security and joy, altogether false, yielding a seeming contentment for some small time; like the hungry man dreaming that he is eating, but when he awaketh, his stomach is empty. Isa. 29 8.
2. As it is opposite to gravity; as light and inconstant men, are called vain men; in which sense the prophet calleth Idolaters and their Idols, vain light things, like the winde, Isa. 41. 29.
3. As it is opposite to truth; as deceitful men and lyars are called vain men. Psal. 4. 3. men are said to hunt after vanity and follow after lies; where vanity is expounded by lies. Hence Deut. 32. 21. Idols are said to be vain, because they are false and faigned, not being such as they appear to be, but onelyonly in the foolish and perverse opinion of men And this vanity also reigneth in the minde of carnall men, because it is averse from the truth, and ready to embrace falshood and lyes.
3. It signifieth, to be … and disappointed of the …, which is the proper signification of the Greek word; in this sense the Scripture calleth that … which … us of our end, and feeds our expectation with a vain hope; whereunto Evah seems to have alluded, in the naming of her second Son Abel; i. e. vanity, because she thought her first Son Cain to be the promised … that should tread down the head of the Serpent; but by the wickednesse of his life perceiving it not possible for him to be the man she expected, upon her next Son she imposed a name, to intimate her being deceived of her hope. So Psal. 33. 17. the horse is said to be a vain thing. And Psal. 60. 19. the help of man is vain; i. e, a deceitful safeguard, a lying help, onelyonly feeding the expectation with a vain hope. So 1 Cor. 15. 17. If Christ be not risen (saith the Apostle) then our hope is vain; i. e. deceitful and false, as being yet in our sins; in this sense the hope and confidence of every unregenerate man, may justly be called vain, because it shall deceive and disappoint him at the last, when he standeth in most need of help and comfort.
4. It signifieth …, weak and obnoxious to change, whence we use to say a thing is vanished to nothing. So Job speak, of his friends, ch. 27. 12. Why are ye thus altogether vain? i. e. why do ye urge so many idle and frivolous reasons against …, which come to nothing. In this sense vain hath two degrees;
1. The … of change.
2. Of …:
The first ending in the last, and being a preparation thereunto.
Of the first Job speaks, ch. 6. 16. comparing the friendship of men to snow and ice, which being melted with the heat of the Sun, vanish, and are changed into another form, that they shall not be known to be the thing they were.
Of the … st the Apostle speaketh, Rom. 8. 20. The creature is subject unto vanity, i. e. corruption, as himself immediately after expounds it. So Psal. 144. 4. Man is said to be like unto vanity, because his dayes passe as a shadow, and are consumed. In which sense the Preacher calleth all things under the Sun vanity; whereunto the LXX. had respect, translating the word smoak, then the which there is nothing more vanishing, seeing like unto a Tower it riseth aloft, as if it would reach unto heaven, but being scatered with the least blast of wind, it vanisheth and consumeth away; such are all things in this world that doe possesse the minde and thoughts of carnall men, 1 John 2. 14, 15, 17.
5. It signifieth …. Psal. 119. 37. Turn away my eyes that they … not …, saith the Psalmist; i. e. iniquity, and the deceitfulnesse of sin, whereby I may be ensnared, and led away from the truth. So Psal. 94. 11. The thoughts of man are said to be vain; i. e. onelyonly evill continually, Gen. 6. Hence Isa. 5. 18. the wicked are said to draw iniquity with the cords of vanity, i. e. with a will, mind, and affections altogether corrupt, although by the cords of vanity, may be understood the objects of sinfull lusts, because they provoke unto sin, and nourish it.
6. It signifieth foolishnesse and …, joyned with ignorance and blindnesse. So Job 11. 12. Vain man would be wise (saith Zophar) though he be born like a wilde Asses Colt; i. e. foolish man, void of wisdome and knowledge.
This kinde of Vanity is also attributed to the minde, Tit. 3. 3. where describing the miserable condition of the Gentiles without Christ, saith they are foolish. Bodius Ephes. p. 537, 538.
Vanity of Vanities]
;;… vain, and exceeding full of vanity. Eccles. 1. 2. Vanity of vanities, (saith the Preacher.) In the Hebrew phrase, two positives be aequivalent to the superlative: as, Servant of Servants, Vanity of Vanities, signifies most servile, most vain.
Vapour]
;;A dewy mist, as the smoak of a seething pot.
;;2. The frailty of mans life being of short continuance, and suddenly extinct and put out, like a vapor. Jam. 4. 14. It is even a vapour that appears for a little time.
Vapor] properly, an exhalation hot and moyst, arising out of the water into the air.
Improperly, it is put for the judgements of God, or tokens thereof, Joel 2. 30. Act. 2. 19.
The efficent cause is God, Psal. 135. 7. Jer. 10. 13. The effect is rain, 1 King. 18. 44. Prov. 25. 14. The end is to praise God, Psal. 148. 8.
Vapour]
Job 36. 33. Hebr. that which goeth up, marg.
Variablenesse]
Inconstancy, subject to change, Jam. 1. 17.
Variablenesse]
From the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning. Jam. 1. 17. The word foreign (rendred variableness) signifieth astrononomically the several habitudes and positions, wherein the Sun appears to us every day at the rising in the Meridian, and when it sets. And so foreign (rendred turning) is also a like word belonging not to the daily but yearly course of the Sun, which is farther from us, or nearer to us, after the measure, or in the proportion, that it moves towards the Northern and Southern Tropick. And from thence it is that it casts several … to the several people of the world, and gives Geographers occasion to divide them into foreign, and foreign, those that cast no shadows those that cast shadowes on one side, and those that cast shadows round about. And agreeable to this is the word foreign (rendred shadow) casting of shadow here, and being joyned with foreign turning, signifies the variations of the shadows, according to the various motions of the Sun, before mentioned. Dr. Ham. Annot. d.
God is here compared to the Sun, and is therefore called the Father of lights, but yet is preferred before it, because it hath sometimes clouds cast over it, and sometimes is in an eclipse; but there is no change or shadow of change with him. All these words are astronomicall; God is compared to the Sun, and his light is much perfecter. The Sun hath its parallaxes, in the East it looks one way, in the South and West another way; and his turnings, yeerly departures from us, which we call …. God neither rises, nor sets, nor departs, but is alwayes neer to those that call upon him. Leigh's Annot.
Variance]
Evil strife in affections, words, scolding, brawling; yea all unjust striving, quarrelling, Gal. 5. 20.
Vashni]
Second, changed, a tooth, or my year. 2 Chr. 6. 28. The Son of Samuel.
Vashtie]
Drinking, doubling, putting, or hemp. Ahashuerosh his Wife, Est. 1. 9.
Vaunt]
To boast, Judg. 7. 2. To be rash, 1 Cor. 13. 4. marg.
V C.
Vcall
The name of a man, Prov. 30. 1. He was (as … think) the Disciple of Agur, or some wise man, who used to converse with him, that he might learn wisdome of him.
It cometh from a word that signifieth to be able, which is by some attributed to Christ, and in the same place Ithiel, the strong God is with me, that the godly might be put in minde of their sanctification wrough by the presence and power of …. Junius, and Trem. upon Prov. 30. 1.