A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part OF – Part OK
O F.
Of]
;;The Efficient cause, or author and chief worker of a thing. Mat. 1. 18. And she was found to be with childe of the holy Ghost. Rom. 11. 36. Of him are all things. Joh. 1. 3. But are born of God.
;;In carnal generation, this particle [Of] so noteth the marerial cause of which we do come and be born, as it implyeth the efficient too, for parents be both first workers, and also the matter of generation. It is not so in our spiritual begetting, where God is only efficient, the immortal seed of the Word hath the place and force of the matter.
;;2. The instrumental cause. Act. 19. 11. God wrought … by the hand of Paul.
;;3. The material cause or matter, whereof any thing is made. Rom. 1. 4. Born of the seed of David.
;;4. In Gal. 2. 16. By the saith of Jesus Christ.
5. In, Eph. 4. 1. Rev. 3. 14.
6. For, Heb. 11. 26.
It's a particle noting,
1. Possession, or appertaining to, or depending on, 1 Cor. 1. 12. & 3. 4.
2. Inward fellowship, 1 Joh. 2. 19.
3. Participation, 1 Joh. 4. 13.
4. The cause, Rom. 11. 36.
Of]
Corcerning, 1 Sam. 31. 11. marg. According to, 1 King. 10. 13. marg. With, 1 King. 11. 11. marg. From before, Ezr. 7. 14. marg. Isa. 10. 22. He … or amongst, marg. Heb. 11. 26. or For, marg.
Of him, by him, or for him]
;;That all persons, Angels and Men, also all creatures and works do take their beginning of God, as their first cause, to be by him sustained in regard of preservation; and for him in respect of their end and perfection. Rom. 11. 36. For of him, by him, and for him, are all things; that is, saith M. Calvin, of God himself alone, and none other moving him; by him, none other helping him; and for his own glory, and not for any other cause.
Off]
By the words joyned herewith, way, …, afar, lighted, from, &c. the meaning hereof is plain.
The land that is very far off, Isa. 33. 17. Heb. the land of far distance, marg.
Offence]
;;A stone, block, or some other thing, whereat men may stumble.
;;2. Every occasion of sinning given to others. Mat. 18. 6. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones. vers. 7. … to them by whom offences come. Rom. 14. 21. 1 Cor. 8. 13. Give no offence to the Church of God. Eevery hinderance in the course of godliness, offered unto us by another, is an offence; and (as it were) a stone cast into our way to make us stumble. This is an offence given.
;;3. Every hinderance and let in our course, not offered by others, but laid hold on by our selves, without just cause; as when the Jews were offended with Christs doctrine. Mat. 15. 12. The Pharisees are offended in hearing this saying. Joh. 6. 61. Doth this offend you? This is an offence taken.
;;4. Every sin or fault against God, or our neighbour, how secretly or privately soever done. Rom. 5. 15. The gift is not so as is the offence.
;;5. Knowledge of an offence. Rom. 5. 20 The … entred, that the offence might abound. Rom. 2. For by the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
6. An occasion to fall to sin, Rom. 14. 13. and to pollute the conscience of another, 1 Cor. 8. 9, 10.
Offence]
The word foreign in the sacred Writters, is either naturall or metaphoricall.
It naturally signifies,
1. A trap, a gin, or snare to catch any thing. So in the Greek translation of Psal. 69. 22. which should be so rendred in Rom. 11. 9. (where the same words are cited out of the LXX. translation, and not out of the …. text of the Psalm) not stumbling-block, but gin, or some other word belongs to this signification.
2. Any obstacle or hinderance laid in a mans way, by which the passenger is detained or stopped; …, a sharp stake, such as in time of war men were wont to put in the fields, where their enemy should follow, to wound their feet or legs, in the passage; against which, being so ordinary in War, they anciently used greves of brasse to defend their feet or legs, 1 Sam. 17. 6.
3. A stone or block in the way, at which men are apt (if they be not carefull, or if they go in the dark) to stumble and fall. And thereupon in the Old Testament it is taken for a fall, and so sometime for sin, the fall of the soul. In which sense I conceive it's used, Judg. 8. 27. where it's rendred a snare, i. e. a sin ensnaring, or occasioning ruine.
4. Slander, calumny, or defamation, Psal. 50. 20.
Metaphorically, for the use of the word in the New Testament, some places must be interpreted by bringing the Metaphor from the first sense, as it signifies a snare, or …, as Mat. 16. 23. Rev. 2. 14. Mat. 5. 29. & 18. 8. Mar. 9. 47. Others, by bringing it from the second sense of a sharpe stake, which he who hath once met with, and been galled by it, is wont to gather up, and cast into the fire, as Mat. 13. 41. 42. (to which St. Paul seemes to allude, 2 Cor. 11. 29. Mat. 17. 27. & 15. 12. & 18. 6, 7. Luk. 7. 23. Mat. 13. 57. Mar. 6. 3. Joh. 6. 61. Gal. 5. 11. Mat. 26. 31. Mar. 14. 23, 27. Joh. 16. 1. Rom. 14. 13.) A third … refer to the third mentioned acception of the word, as it signifies a stumbling block, as Rom. 9. 33. 1 Cor. 8. 9, 13. 1 Pet. 2. 8. 1 Joh. 2. 10, 11. Dr. Hammond on Matth. 11. 6. Annot. c.
Without offence]
;;Not one free from sin, but free from giving occasion of sin to others, in actions before men, as well as sincere before God in their mindes. Phil. 1. 10. Without offence.
To offend]
;;To do any sin in thought, word, or deed. Jam. 3. 2. He that offends not with his tongue, is a … man. Psal. 19. 12. Who can tell how … he offendeth? Mat. 23. 13.
;;2. To minister or give occasion of sin, either by word or example. 1 Cor. 8. 13. That I may not offend my Brother.
;;3. To take occasion of sinning, when none is given, as the Pharisees at the Disciples plucking the ears of corn on the Sabath. Mar. 2. 23. As before, Mar. 15. 12. They were offended at that saying.
;;4. To provoke God or any good man to anger (by some evill act or word of ours) whereby evill may come on us from them; this is the effect of sin on the good. 2. Passive, or to be offended.;;
;;5. To provoke or move any evill person to anger or discontent by some good word or deed, Joh. 6. 51.;;
6. To wrong, Psal. 73. 15.
7. To be guilty, injurious, Jer. 2. 3.
8. To cause to offend, Mat 5. 29 marg.
9. To be a let or hinderance, Ibid. 30.
10. To do unjustly, Act. 25. 11.
11. To stumble, Jam. 3. 2. (so the word is rendred, Rom. 11. 11.) or, to fall, as the word is rendred, 2 Pet. 1. 10.
Offend]
Matth. 5. 29. or, do cause thee to offend, marg. Things that offend, Matth. 13. 41. or scandals, marg.
Offended]
As it is an idiom ordinary in the Books of the Old and New Testament, that passive verbs (by a Metonymie of the effect) comprehend and import the reality of the effect of the passion, or a willing reception of the impression, i. e. note the patient not only to receive influxes from the agent, but to be effectually changed by the passion; so foreign, to be scandalized (or offended) is to be wrought on (brought into sin, actually discouraged in the wayes of godliness) by the scandal laid in his way. Id. Ibid. Annot. ….
Offenders]
1 King. 1. 21. Heb. sinners, marg.
Offer]
To burn, Exod. 30. 9. To give, or present, Psal. 50. 23. Sacrifice, 1 King. 13. 2. To go up, 1 King. 12. 32. marg. To stretch out, 1 …. 21. 10. marg. To bring unto, Mal. 1. 7. marg. To add to, Rev. 8. 3. marg. To pour out, Phil. 2. 17. marg.
Hereunto Burnt-offering, bullock, lambs, incense, silver, brasse, meat-offering, &c. being joyned, the meaning of such places is plainly perceived.
Offerings are,
1. Mosaical, Act. 21. 26. Heb. 10. 5, 8. Whereof there were Burnt-offerings, Numb. 28. 3. Free-will-offerings, Ezr. 7. 16. Sin-offerings, Ezek. 43. 25. & 44. 27, 29. Peace-offerings, Luk. 4. 10. Drink-offerings, Numb. 28. 7. Meat-offerings, Levit. 7. 37. Heave-offerings, Numb. 5. v. 9.
2. Idolatrous, Psal. 16. 4.
3. Christian and spiritual, both Christ, Isa. 53. 10. Eph. 5. 2. Heb. 8. 10. and our selves to God, Rom. 12. 1. & 15. 16.
To offer]
;;To shew himself, or to behave and carry himself as a father to his children. Thus God … himself to his Saints, Heb. 12. 7.
;;2. To give and make himself willingly a slain Oblation and Sacrifice for satisfaction. Thus Christ offered himself, Heb. 9. 25, 26.
;;3. To slay and kill beasts for Sacrifices, to be figures of Christ his offering himself. Thus Priests under the Law offered, Heb. 10. 11.
;;4. To render praise to God, for mercy and Alms to the poor which be needy and miserable. Thus Christians offer to God, Heb. 13. 15.
That he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints, Rev. 8. 3. or, adde it to the prayers, &c. marg. That he should pray with and for the people in the name of Christ; or procure a gratious answer to their prayers. An allusion to the peoples … in prayer, while the Priest offered incense, Luk. 1. 10.
Offering]
Exod. 25. 2. or Heave-offering, marg. 1 King. 18. 29. Heb. ascending, marg. Rom. 15. 16. or sacrificing, marg.
Peace-offerings, Ezek. 43. 27. or Thank-offerings, marg.
The words prefixed, burnt, drink, free-will, heave, meat, peace, sin, thanks, wave, wine, shew both the kindes, and of what the offerings were.
Offering for sin]
;;Sacrifice expiatory, as peace offerings signifie Sacrifices gratulatory, Heb. 10. 5.
Office]
;;Some function or calling, which bindes to duty, Gen. 41. 13. Exod. 1. 16.
;;2. Some duty which is to be done in regard of some charge or function which we bear in Church, Commonwealth, or family. Rom. 12. 7. He that hath an office, let him wait on his office.
3. Trust, 1 Chr. 9. 22. marg. Ibid. 26. marg.
4. Station, 1 Chr. 23. 28. marg.
5. To be upon, Neh. 13. 13. marg.
6. Observation, Ibid. 14. marg.
7. Charge, Psal. 109. 8.
Office]
Set office, 1 Chr. 9. 22. or trust, marg.
Officer]
Deliver thee to the officer, Mat. 5. 25. The word foreign, officer, or sergeant, which is here used, and so in like manner Joh. 18. 3. is also used, Luk. 4. 20. in another sense; by which compared together, it appears that the same men which in the Consistory, or Court of Judgement among the Jews were Apparitors or Sergeants, were also in the Synagogues employed (as Deacons) to minister, to bring and take away the book, &c. So the very word foreign, that we ordinarily render Deacons, doth Mat. 22. 13. signifie the officers that take and carry men to prison, and (as it was the Lictors office) binde … hand and foot, &c. In stead of foreign here, is foreign, Luk. 12. 58. i. e. … or Lictor, that executes the sentence to which any man is adjudged by the Court of Justice. Dr. Hammond Annot. n.
Officers]
;;Servants and Ministers, which attend upon the Magistrates, to execute their Commandement. Mat. 26. The Officers of the High-priest. Act. 5. 22.
2. Eunuches, 1 Sam. 8. 15. marg. 2 King. 8. 6. marg.
3. Offices, 2 King. 11. 18. marg. & 24. 12, 15. marg.
4. Over the charge, 1 Chr. 26. 30. marg.
5. Overseers, Gen. 41. 34.
Off-scowring]
;;1 Cor. 4. 13. See Alciatus in … …, …. 9. c. 22. tom. 2. who sheweth that this was the refuse person of the City, whom the people, first beating and disgracing him, afterwards killed and burned, and cast his ashes into the Sea, to make a lustration or expiation for all the multitude in time of plague, famine, or any other calamity.;;
Thou hast made us as the off-scowrings, Lam. 3. 45. that is, Thou hast caused us to be had in as vile esteem as may be, as if we were no better then off-scowrings or scrapings; for from a root of that notion, Ezek. 26. 4. cometh the word here used, and no where else found in Scripture; and the Greek, word answering it, 1 Cor. 4. 13. from the like, we are made the off-scouring of all things unto this day. The Apostle alludeth unto the expiation in use among the Heathens, saith Budaeus. Certain condemned persons were brought forth with garlands upon their heads in manner of sacrifices: these they would tumble from some steep place into the sea, offering them up to Neptune, using this form of words, Sis pro nobis peripsema: Be thou a reconciliation or propitiation for us. As if the Apostle had said, We are as despicable and odious in the sight of the people, as those condemned persons, who were offered up by way of publick expiation.
Off-spring]
Posterity, Job 31. 8. Issue, race, sons, seed, Isa. 22. 24. & 48. 19. All mankinde, Act. 17. 28. Jesus Christ, Rev. 22. 16.
…, often, oftentimes]
are in effect the same, importing the frequency of speaking, acting, suffering, &c. frequently, diligently, continuedly, &c.
Oft]
They washed their hands …, Mar. 7. 2. or diligently; in the Original, with the fist. Theophylact, up to the elbow, marg.
Often-times]
Job 33. 29. Heb. twice and thrice, marg.
Oft-times]
;;Something which for insufficiency, from the promise in Paradise, must be done again, Heb. 10. 11.
O G.
Og]
Rosted bread, a mock; or after the Syrian, holding down, or hindred. The King of Bashan, Numb. 21. 33.
O H.
Oh]
Oh that thou wouldst, &c. 1 Chr. 4. 10. Heb. if thou will, &c. marg.
Ohad]
Praising, or …. The Son of Simeon, Gen. 46. 10. Exod. 6. 15.
Ohel]
A tabernacle, tent; or light. The Son of Zerubbabel, 1 Chr. 3. 20.
O I.
Ointment]
;;Some sweet perfume or confection, made under the Law, by Gods appointment, to anoint Aaron and his sons; The Tabernacle and ministring vessels, &c. Exod. 31. 11, 22.
;;2. The rich graces of the Spirit, poured upon Christ (our head) making himself sweet, and the faithful also, which partake in them, Cant. 1. 2. Because of the savour of thy good Ointments. See Name.
O K.
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Put
1. for the kinde of tree so called, Judg. 6. 11. Which is strong, Amos 2. 9. and thick with branches, 2 Sam. 18. 9, 14.
2. The place of idolatrous worship, Isa. 1. 29.
3. Men of proud, lofty, and unbendible spirits, Isa. 2. 13.
As an oke without leaf]
;;That Idolaters in the day of the Lords wrath, should be stript and spoiled of all their good and pleasant things, Rev. 18. 14, 16, 17, 22, 23. Even as an Oke in midst of Winter, lacking greenness of leaf and all viridity and vigour, or as a Garden in midst of Summer withered by drought and lack of water. Isa. 1. 29. Thou shalt be as an oke without leaf.
Okes and Gardens]
;;Properly a kind of Tree (or Trees in general) and some enclosed ground for Herbs, Plants, Flowers, Walks, and other pleasures: improperly, by a figure Metonymie, such Chappels, and Altars, as Idolatrous Jews erected under Okes, and in green Gardens, contrary to the prescript of God, who had sanctified the Temple and Altar at Jerusalem, for his Sacrifices and Oblations, as Psal. 132. 8, 13. & Deut. 12. 4, 5, 6. 1 King. 8. 19. & 2 Chr. 7. 12. Deut. 16. 21. And by a Synecdoche of the part, these Altars thus erected, signifies, all voluntary service of God, Col. 3. 23. and every invention of man in the publick worship of God, Isa. 1. 29. For ye shall be ashamed of the Okes and Gardens which ye have desired and chosen. Where note from [ye have desired and chosen] that Idolatry hath original from men themselves, fervently coveting and choosing it freely: whence it is, that Idol-servers are such hot persecutors of such as mislike their superstition, and be at such cost to uphold it.