A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part PI
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Pich]
Prov. 30. 17. Such children shall come to an untimely end and be denyed burial. See vers. 11.
Pictures]
Isa. 2. 17. Pleasant pictures, Heb. Pictures of desire or delight. Hereby may be understood all such curious pictures, as being either for superstitious uses, or civil ornament intended, they were taken with, and took much delight in.
;;Or, Images framed with singular wit an skill, giving great delight and pleasure to the beholders. Here by a Synecdoche, either ships or houshold furniture, adorned and set forth with pictures is understood.
Piece]
Part, Gen. 15. 10. An intire and sufficient parcel, which might need no piecing, Exod. 37. 7. Numb. 10. 2. Measure, Neh. 3. 11. marg. This is spoken of a milstone, silver, bread, flesh, land, bullock, cloth, and of divers other things, easie to be understood. See Peece.
Like a piece of …]
;;A ruddy colour, or white mixed with red, Cant. 4. 3. Thy temples are within thy locks, as a … of a Pomegranate.
Or, Thy … are like the flower or bark of little Pomegranates, or like pieces of Pomegranates, which when they are divided and cut, have red blushing grains, and specks within them, which blushing seems to be for being discovered. The allusion is excellent, which is answered in the modesty and humility of the Church of Christ, which are in the eye of God of high account Annot.
… are commended by … both for repressing the heat of choler; the malignity; rottenness, and acrimony of Feavers; the looseness of the belly; and for the comforting and strengthening the stomach and bowels, to the keeping back of all fainting. This Offfice the Ecclesiastical Governours of the Church do perform to it; they represse the heat of fallings out among the brethren, the notorious abuses, the looseness or distemperedness of the people, they comfort the feeble, and binde up the weak, and are therefore fitly resembled by Pomegranates, yea by a piece of a Pomegranate, for it is not the whole body of the Pomegranate that doth this; but it, broken in pieces, by his juice and … which are medicinable. Cotton.
To pierce]
;;To offer violence to the body, by digging through, or opening some part of it. Joh. 19. 34. One of the souldiers pierced his side. Zach. 12. 10.
;;The Prophet Zachary in this speech doth note two things; first, the horrible impiety of the Jews, which by their contumacy grieved God exceedingly a long time (as if they would pierce his soul with the arrows of their rebellions) and at length in the person of his Son incamate (or made flesh) spared not his side, but most … pierced his very heart. Secondly, the true and serious repentance of many Jews (all elect ones) whose eyes being opened by the gracious spirit of God, they should conceive and hope well of the mercies of that God whom they had so grievously offended; being much displeased with themselves for such execrable contempt of God himself, with great and continuall sorrow bewailing their sins, and striving to amendment: the accomplishment see in part, in Act. 2. 38.
;;2. To cause or work any extremity whatsoever. Psal. 22. 16. They pierced my hands and my feet.
They also which pierced him, Rev. 1. 7. Zech. 12. 10. Joh. 19. 34, 37. That had any hand in the crucifying of him. Psal. 22. 16. Annot.
Like the pierceings of a sword, Prov. 12. 18. that is, that with rash and ill advised speeches, hurt and wound their neighbour in his mind, honour, life, and well-being, as a man is hurt and wounded in his body with a sword. D. Annot.
Piety]
;;A true worshipping of God, soundnesse of doctrine, and pure life: which things doe follow faith and hope. 1 Tim. 4. 8. Piety (or godlinesse) is profitable to all things.
;;2. Naturall love towards parents and kinsfolks. 1 Tim. 5. 4. Let them learn to shew piety, (or kindenesse) towards their own house, and to recompense their kindred. See Godlinesse.
Pigeon]
Lev. 12. 6. Heb. Son of a dove. Baal … here noteth, that in every place he mentioneth, the Turtles before the Pigeons, save here, the reason whereof he saith is this, because she brought but one. And if she could finde a Dove, she would not take a Turtle, because the fellow of the Turtle would mourn for her …, and would not couple her self with another. Aynsworth. See Dove.
Pi-…]
Exod. 14. 2. or, the mouth of Hiroth; that is, the straight or passage between the Mountains or Hiroth, for in Numb. 33. 8. the word Pi, that is, mouth, is left out of the name.
Pilate]
Armed with a dart, or hair. The Governour of Judea, Mat. 27. 2. Mar. 15. 1.
Pildash]
The Son of Nahor, Gen. 22. 22.
Pile]
An heap of wood made for the burning of a dead body, Isa. 30. 33. Ezek. 24. 9. He seems to ailude to those piles of wood that were used and spent there, in their cruel and inhumane Sacrifices, or in the burning of bodies, and other abominable things there, when it came to be for other purposes employed. Annot.
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One that sealed the Covenant, Neh. 10. 24.
Pilgrim]
;;One that travelleth far from home in forain Countreys, without any certain or … dwelling place. Gen. 47. 9. The whole time of my pilgrimage, &c.
;;The Patriarchs sad days of their Pilgrimages, rather … of their life, because, of their many removings from place to place on earth, and for that we have no abiding City here, Heb. 11. 9, 13. & 13. 14.
;;2. Every godly person, which dwelleth here on earth, as touching his body, hath his desire, love, and hope fixed in heaven, as in his proper Countrey. Heb. 11. 13. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Psal. 39. 12. For Popish Pilgrims and Pilgrimage there is no ground and footing in all the Scriptures.
Pilgrimage]
An uncertain and wandring state on earth, Gen. 47. 9. or sojournings, so he calleth it rather then life, both from his many removings from place to place on earth, and for that we have here no abiding City, Heb. 13. 14. & 11. 9, 13. Aynsw.
Pilgrims]
Heb. 11. 13. Confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. Strangers are a people absent from their own countrey; Pilgrims are strangers that have not any abiding where they are; Paul hath reference to the place, Gen. 23. 4. & 47. 9. Leighs Annot.
Pillar]
;;Some strong post or frame of stones made to support and uphold some house or building; as the pillars in the Temple and in Solomon's House. There be pillars set up for monuments and remembrances, either of Gods judgements, or mens fame; as the Pillar of Salt; into which Lot's wife was turned, and Absalom's Pillar.
;;2. Teachers or Ministers of the Word, of great authority, upon whom the Church leaneth and stayeth for their sound doctrine, as an house upon pillars. In this speech Paul hath regard to the building of the Temple, the weight whereof stood upon pillars, Gal. 2.
;;3. One person or Church, firmly and stedfastly setled in the estate of grace. Rev. 3. 12.
;;4. A good Prince, and righteous Magistrates, as the stayes and supporters of a Common-wealth, Psal. 75. 3.
;;5. The pole, end, or point of the Axletree, whereon heaven is moved (as the Astronomers teach) there be two of them. 1 Sam. 2. 8. The pillars of the earth are the Lords.
6. The resemblance of a pillar, Gen. 19. 26. That which riseth up like a pillar, as of the Cloud, Numb. 12. 3. Smoak, Judg. 20. 40. Fire, Exod. 13. 21, 22.
7. Standing Images, Deut. 12. 3. called Images, Exod. 23. 24. Standing Images, Lev. 26. 1.
8. The high mountains, called The pillars of heaven, Job 26. 11. because they seem by their height to uphold the very heavens.
9. The lowest parts of the earth, which are as the pillars to uphold the rest, Job 9. 6. 1 Sam. 2. 8. Psal. 75. 3.
10. Very uncertain and undoubted grounds, Prov. 9. 1.
;;Note. Pillars of ancient were either for a religious signe, as also Altars were, Gen. 28. 18. & 25. 14. Isa. 19. 19. But when the Law was given by Moses, no Pillars might any more be set up, Lev. 26. 1. Hos. 10. 1. but all such as Heathens had set up must be broken down, Deut. 7. 5. & 12. 3. Or sometime pillars were for civil monuments, Gen. 35. 20. 2 Sam. 18. 18.
Pillar]
;;One which is firm, and doth steddily abide in the Church, being rooted and surely built on Christ the foundation. Rev. 3. 12. I will make him a pillar in the Temple of God. Some think that this place hath allusion and respect unto those two Pillars placed by Solomon in the Temple, to represent the stability of the Sons of God. Others do judge that here is an allusion unto the fashion of such Countreys, where Pillars and Statues with inscriptions upon them, were erected by way of gratefulness, to the honour of such as were Captains in war, and returned home Conquerors, as used to be done at Rome, in soro & campo Martis. Howsoever this be, the meaning comes all to one passe, to note the great solidity and unmoveable estate of Gods children.
To him that overcometh, &c. That is, in the Church Triumphant. Pillars are both the firmament, and ornament of Temples. Leighs Annot.
He shall have an everlasting happiness in heaven. An allusion to 1 King. 7. 21. Annot.
Pillar of truth]
;;The Church of Christ on earth. 1 Tim. 3. 15. The pillar and ground of truth, which is the Church of the living God. In this Metaphor he borroweth his speech from an old custome of the Gentiles, who were wont to write their Laws in Tables, and so to hang them upon Pillars (as we do Proclamations on posts) that they might be read: Hereby to teach us, that the Church is but a witness and preserver, and no rule of truth, (as Papists say) as the Pillar was not the Law, but that whereon the Law hung; so the true Church (lesse the false Romish Church) is that which shews the truth, and upholds it by her Ministery, but it self is not the rule of truth, for that is the holy Scriptures, which are faithfully kept by the Church, as a pillar upholdeth a building.
Pillars are for Supporters and for Monuments.
1. The Church upholdeth and maintaineth the truth.
2. Keepeth it in remembrance, by teaching it to all posterities.
Pillars]
1 King. 10. 12. or rails, Hebr. a prop, marg.
His feet as pillars of fire]
Rev. 10. 1. That is, legs by a Synecdoche, taking the feet in with them, which are as a basis to the legs, being as pillars, supporters to the body. Cant. 5. 12. Here the rather so termed, to imply their strength and firmness. 1 King. 7. 21. They are said to be of fire, either for the brightness of them, or, having power to consume Gods enemies. Chap. 1. 15. Psal. 74. 3. Annot.
Pillars of Marble]
;;Legs straight and long as Pillars of Marble, Cant. 5. 15. His legs are as pillars of marble.
Pillars of silver]
Cant. 3. 10. This if it be referred to persons, meaneth the Ministers, who by the doctrine of the Gospel, sustained the Church, Gal. 2. 9. If unto other things, it may be understood of the Words of God (likened unto fined silver, in Psal. 12. 6.) with whose Oracles as with pillars, the chariot of the Church is sustained, Prov. 9. 1, 2. A pillar signifieth constancy and stability, Rev. 3. 12. Aynsw.
Pillars of smoak]
;;The faith, hope, love, prayers, and thanksgivings, of believing Christians, which like pillars of smoak, ascend up before the Lord, Cant. 3. 6. Who is she that cometh up out of the Wilderness, like pillars of smoak?
Pilled]
Pulled off the bark in some places of the rods, Gen. 30. 37, 38.
Pillow]
1. Properly, that on which we lay our heads to sleep, Gen. 28. 11, 18. 1 Sam. 19. 13.
2. Figuratively, A token of constant quietness and rest, such the false Prophetesses made, to signifie peace and rest to the people, Ezek. 13. 18, 19, 20.
Pilot]
The Stern-man, or Governour of a ship, Ezek. 27. 8.
Piltai]
Neh. 12. 17.
A pin]
Ezek. 15. 3. A wooden nail, or peg. D. Annot.
Pinacle]
A turret, spire, or battlement, of a Temple, Mat. 4. 5.
Pinacle]
Mat. 4. 5. foreign, signifying literally a little wing, doth here note the exteriour circuit of the top of the house which compasseth it in (and is thence called foreign, Deut. 22. 8.) to keep men from danger of falling from the roof, and is therefore in the Law prescribed in their buildings, that thou bring not blood upon thy house. It is a kind of girdle on the top of the Temple to compasse it, which is clearly the battlement, not the pinacle. Dr. Hammond. Annot. b.
Pine away]
Lev. 26. 39. or, melt away.
To pine in iniquity, is, To consume and perish in punishment for iniquity, Ezek. 33. 10. To flow out, Lam. 4. 9. marg. To wither, decay, wear away, Mar. 9. 18.
Pine-tree]
The Jews took of the branches hereof to make Boothes, when they kept the Feast of Tabernacles, Neh. 8. 15. It's in the Originall foreign, Isa. 41. 19. which some guesse to be so called from the noyse which the branches hereof make when they are shaken with the winde; and the root foreign, whence it seemeth to spring, is used of such a noyse as Horses use to make, trampling or prancing with their feet, Judg. 5. 22. Nah. 3. 2. Others derive it from an Arabick word, that signifieth eternity, either because it holdeth his verdure all the year long, or because the wood or timber thereof is of long continuance, Annot. The middle or heart hereof, when it is grown fat and full of liquor, being kindled, burneth like a torch, being therefore by Interpreters rendred Taeda. There are severall kindes hereof, whence cometh Rosen and Pitch, both liquid and hard. When the tree groweth over-fat and oylie, it dyeth, even like to a man or beast that is stuffed or rather stifled in grease and fat. Both the leaves, bark, and fruit of this tree are useful in physick. Though it be a fat tree, yet doth it grow and thrive best in Mountains, and sandy places, and groweth up the higher the more its boughs are cut … below. Through the abundance of moysture, worms are bred betwixt the bark and the wood, which would soon spoyl the tree, if the Husband man for the preservation thereof did not pull off the bark. It beareth its fruit in the Winter, not in the Summer. Whilest it is young, it must be often watered, else doth it not prosper; and its abundance of moysture hindereth its speedy growth. The longer it is kept from the rain, the longer it lasteth, yet if it be laid alwayes under water, its soundness abideth a long time.
Pinon]
A precious stone; or, beholding; or, the mouth of everlasting, or the mouth of the Sun; or, after the Hebrew and Syrian, the … of a fish. A Duke, Gen. 36. 41.
Pins]
Exod. 27. 19. or, stakes, wherewith the hangings were fastened to the ground, that they might not be waved to and fro with the wind; Nails which were to fasten it and the parts thereof, that it might stand sure. These signified the stability of the Church, and the Ministery of Gods Word fastening the same. Ezra 9. 8. Isa. 33. 20. & 20. 23. Zech. 10. 4. Aynsw.
A pipe]
;;1. A musical instrument made to sound by help of wind, 2 Cor. 14. 7.;;
;;2. A Preacher of Gods Word blown and inspired with the power and wisdom of God, to call men to repentance and salvation: So St. Basil interprets Mat. 11. 17. Conc. 7. in Psal. 25. 30.;;
Piped]
Played on pipes, 1 King. 1. 40.
Pipes]
1 King. 1. 40. or Flutes, marg.
Piram]
A wilde Asse of them, the cruelty of them; or, the bull of the Mother. The King of Jarmuth, Josh. 10. 3.
Pirathon]
His breaking, or making bare; or after the Syrian, his revengements. A City, Judg. 12. 15. Whence Pirathonite, an inhabitant thereof, Judg. 12. 13, 15.
Pisgah]
A hill, height, or provision. A Mountain, Numb. 21. 20.
Pisidia]
A pitch-tree, or black with pitch. A Province of Asia the lesse, Act. 13. 14.
Pison]
The changing greatness of the mouth, or an inlarging. A River, so called (saith Aynsw.) of the multitude or increase of waters, Gen. 2. 11. The main river being supposed to be Euphrates, the first channel here noted is Pison, or Pischon, which the Greeks call by the name of a Kingly river. This fals into Tigris, and gives the name of Pasitigris, or Pisotigris to the concurrent streams, Annot. also Hist. of the World, lib. 1. c. 3. sect. 13. p. 58.
Pispah]
The diminishing of the mouth, or a mouth diminished. The Son of Jether, 1 Chr. 7. 38.
Pisse]
Any that pisseth against the wall, 1 Sam. 25. 12. A proverbial speech used by the Hebrews, signifying a totall extermination of an house, so as not so much as a dog should escape unkilled, (1 King. 14. 10. & 16. 11. & 21. 21. 2 King. 9. 8.) Some think that by this phrase is implyed, that he only intended to destroy all the Males, but that he extended it to all the Males and Females; it plainly appeareth, ver. 34. where he saith, that God had kept him back from hurting Abigail her self, by her wise and seasonable cóunsel.
Their own pisse, 2 King. 18. 27. Heb. The water of their seet.
Pit]
;;1. Any mischief or affliction, either spiritual or bodily; temporal or eternal. Psal. 7. 15. They digged a pit, and themselves are faln into it. Mat. 15. 14. If the blinde lead the …, they shall both fall into the pit, or ditch.
;;2. Any hollowlesse in the ground, either natural or artificial, Isa. 30. 14.
;;3. The grave or place of burial for all dead bodies, Psal. 30. 3.
;;4. Hell, the bottomlesse pit, Rev. 20. 1.
5. An original or first beginning. Isa. 51. 1. To the hole of the pit whence ye are digged, or to the hollow of the cistern, Jer 2. 13. to Sarah, and to her wombe, deemed as dead, and utterly disabled from issue, Gen. 11. 30. & 16. 1. & 18. 11, 12. Rom. 4. 19. (for from the word here used hath a woman her name in Heb. and to a Well or Cistern is the Wife compared, Prov. 5. 15.) until God beyond the … or power of Nature, opened her wombe, as he did that hollow place in Lehi, Judg. 15. 19. and gave her power to conceive issue, Heb. 11. 11. Annot.
Pit]
Isa. 24. 22. or Dungeon, marg.
Pireb]
Herewith was Noahs … pitched. Gen. 6 14. Herewith the Ark, wherein Moses was put, …. 2. 3. and that not only for closeness, but for better and wholesome sent. This was a kinde of natural lime or clay, fast and clammy, like pitch.
And the streams thereof shall be turned … pitch, &c. Isa. 34. 9. A Rhetorical … of extreme devastation in way of allusion to the destruction of Sodom and …, Gen. 19. 24. Deut. 29. 23.
Po …]
Gen. 6. 14. or, Plaister: The Hebrew … which elsewhere is often used for covering and … of sin, making attonement and the like; is only here used for pitch … plaister, there being two other proper words for such …. Exod. 2. 3. It figured the atonement made for the Church by Christ, wherewith we being by saith covered and plaistered, the waters of Gods … enter not upon us. Aynsw.
To … a tent]
;;Residing, or quiet sitting, Gen. 26. 17. It is a word used for pitching of a Camp or Army, Exod. 1. 9. & 18. 27. It is … to removing or journeying, Numb. 1. 50, 52. Pitched, 2 Sam. 6. 17. Heb. stretched, marg.
Pitcher]
1. An earthen vessel, wherewith to take up, and wherein to carry water, Gen. 24. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 43, 45, 46. which being of a brittle …, the work of the Potter is not much regarded, and therefore the Church complaineth, that the precious Sons of Zion comparable to fine god, were esteemed as earthen pitchers, Lam. 4. 2. as bottles of sherd, or earthen stuff, so Jer. 19. 1, 10. as things of no repute or worth, 2 Cor. 4. 7. See Jer. 22. 28.
;;2. The vein in which the bloud is, Eccl. 12. 6. or, the pitcher be broken at the fountain.
Pithom]
A mouthful of them, a perfection of the mouth, or the perswasion of them. A City, Exod. 1. 11.
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A mouthful of him, the perswasion of him, or a gift of the mouth. The Son of Micah, 1 Chr. 8. 35. & 9. 41.
Pitiful]
God is said to be very pitiful, foreign, Jam. 5. 11. that is, of many …, even as a tender Mother hath her bowels moved, when her childe is to suffer. …. 1 King. … 26. Luk. 1. 78. Christians are required to be pitiful, foreign, 1 …. 3. 8. Well of bowels, or rightly bowelled, when the heart is moved to compassion.
What things bowels of mercy import, and how to know when our bowels of mercy are right, See Byfield on 1 Pet. 3. 9. p. 683, 684.
Pity]
Cast off all pity, Amos 1. 11. Heb. corrupted his compassions, marg.
To pity]
To lament, Psal. 69. 20. marg. To have compassion, Ezek. 16. 5. To spare, have mercy, Jer. 13. 14. To spare, Jonah 4. 10. marg.