A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part OW – Part OX
O W.
Owe]
To have right unto a thing, Lev. 14. 35. Act. 21. 11. To be bound unto the performance of a thing, or be in ones debt, Mat. 18. 28. Rom. 13. 8.
Owe]
The word foreign, to owe, is here (in Luk. 11. 4.) to be taken in a notion peculiar to the Syriack language (wherein Christ certainly spake) which neither the Greek, nor Latine, nor Hebrew had made use of; for he that sins or offends either against God or man, is in Syriack said foreign, a debter; and so foreign, debitum, a debt, i. e. peccatum, a sin. And proportionably to this, to pardon, is by them exprest by foreign, to remit, and here is rendred foreign, to release, or absolve. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.
Owle]
An unclean bird, Lev. 11. 16. It loveth to live in deserts and solitary places, Job 30. 29. Psal. 102. 6. Isa. 34. 11, 13, 15. & 43. 20. It's of a cruel nature, Lam. 4. 3. and (as the name also implyes) makes a doleful noise, Mic. 1. 8. (The word is rendred by some an Ostrich (Job 30. 29. marg.) which is a great bird, offo heavy a body, that her wings will not bear her up in the air, and so they serve not for flying, but for flight, or running fast on foot.) It's a night bird, seldom seen in the day time, and then seeing but badly … being in the night of cleer sight. It's an enemy to the Crow, whole eggs it destroyeth in the night, as the Crow doth the Owles eggs in the day time. When it flyeth abroad in the day, then do other birds fly about it to gaze at it, amongst whom it useth so long so many divers and ridiculous gestures, that in the mean time they are caught by the Fowler. When it's in danger of other birds. it's delivered by the Hawke. It's counted ominous, but falsly. The Asialick Tartarians have it in great esteem, and judge it a lucky bird, for that their first Emperour Cingis Cham, being fled from his enemies, and hid under a bush whereon an Owle sat, his enemies not thinking that any lurked under it, he was preserved.
Own]
;;Gods chosen in Christ, which Paul cals a peculiar people. Tit. 2. 14. Joh. 17. 10. All things are mine. Joh. 13. 1. Forasmuch as he loved his own.
;;2. Such as bear the name of his people, to wit, the Israelites with whom God had made a Covenant, and to whom he gave his Word and Sacrifices. Joh. 1. 11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
;;Own, in his one sentence, is referred in the first place unto things; for Judea, Jerusalem, and the Temple were his own: and unto the persons in the second place, where his own signifieth the Jews, by a singular priviledge called and adopted to be his houshold, and as it were his sacred sheepfold, to whom the Oracles of God were committed, Rom. 3. 2. See Rom. 9. 4. hereupon termed his peculiar, his treasure, an holy Nation, &c. The whole world, and all which dwell in it be his own.
3. That which belongeth to one, 1 King. 1. 33. marg. That whereof one is the Owner, and to whom it is due, Prov. 3. 27. marg. and that which pertaineth to him.
4. That which may … one, 2 Chr. 6. 29.
Own]
To his own, Joh. 16. 32. or, his own home, marg. That thou go to battle in thine own person, 2 Sam. 17. 11. Heb. that thy face or presence go, &c. marg. Mine own, 1 King. 1. 33. Heb. which belongeth to me, marg.
Own Son]
;;Referred to God the Father, signifieth that peculiar person only that is called Jesus Christ, Rom. 8. 32. who is so called, and is indeed so:;;
;;1. In respect of his eternal Deity or Divine nature, viz. concerning his eternal personality therein, Joh. 3. 16. & 8. 38, 41.;;
;;2. In respect also of his Humane nature.;;
;;1. For the miraculous conception of it without all means, and immediately by the power of God, Luk. 1. 35.;;
;;2. Because of the miraculous and most perfect and perpetual union of it with the Divine nature, Joh. 1. 14. & 3. 13. for this maketh the Sacrifice of his humane nature so precious and powerful to redeem us, Act. 20. 28. 1 Pet. 1. 19. and it self so glorious, Phil. 2. 9, 10, 11. Eph. 1. 21, 22. 1 Pet. 3. 22.;;
Owner]
He to whom a thing is due, Prov. 3. 27. whether Oxe, Exod. 21. 28. or Pit, Ibid. 34. or Asse, or Sheep, or any beast, Exod. 22. 10, 11. or Hill, 1 King. 16. 24. or Land, Job 31. 38, 39. or Ship, Act. 27. 11. or any thing else.
O X.
Oxe]
is a Beast well known, and knoweth his Owner, Isa. 1. 3. Used for sacrifice, Exod. 24. 5. for plowing the ground, 1 King. 19. 19. for treading or threshing out the corn, Deut. 25. 4. for food, 1 King. 4. 23. Neh. 5. 18. for draught, 1 Chr. 13. 9. Abused to idolatry, Psal. 106. 20. Act. 14. 13. to profaneness, unseasonable, and unlawful mirth, 1 King. 1. 9. Isa. 22. 13. to keep back from Gods service, Luk. 14. 19. to covetous ends, Joh. 2. 15. Feedeth on fodder, Job 6. 5. Grasse, Ibid. 40. 15. Straw, Isa. 11. 7. He hath a good memory, and will not forget the man that pricketh him, whereas he will not stir at another. If diseased, he will infect the rest, unlesse he be removed. It's said so to love its fellow with whom it draweth in yoke, that being wanting, it seeketh him out with mourning.
As foolish and undiscreet men stir up the occasions of their own harms, so the Oxe by raising up dust blindeth its own eyes.
;;Oxe: The Minister of the Word which laboureth in the Word and Doctrine. 1 Cor. 9. 9. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe. Hath God care of Oxen?