A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part AV
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Ava]
Iniquity. A City, 2 King. 17. 24.
Avail]
To please, satisfie, give content, Est. 5. 13. To help, profit, be effectual, Gal. 5. 6. & 6. 15. Jam. 5. 16.
Audience]
Ears-hearing, Gen. 23. 10. marg. So, To give audience, is, To hear, Act. 15. 12.
Aven]
Iniquity, called Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. Ezek. 30. 17. Also an Idol, Hos. 10. 8.
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Spoken of God, with relation unto his people, Luk. 18. 7. Prophets, 2 King. 9. 7. Himself, Jer. 49. 10. His anointed, 2 Sam. 22. 48. his Covenant, Lev. 26. 25. His soul upon his own people rebellious against him, Jer. 5. 9. & 9. 9. The house of Jehu, Hos. 1. 4. Spoken of men lawfully in Gods quarrel, Numb. 31. 2. Defence of themselves by warrant of authority, Est. 8. 13. In a just war, Josh. 10. 13. Unlawfully, in a mans own private quarrel, Lev. 19. 18. Rom. 12. 19.
Avenge: To save, 1 Sam. 25. 26. marg. To give judgement, 2 Sam. 22. 48. marg. Psal. 18. 47. marg.
;;To avenge: To recompense unto the wicked after their merits, punishing justly the cruel injuries done by them to the Saints, for the name of Christ, Rev. 19. 2. And to avenge the bloud of his servants.
Avenged him of his enemies, 2 Sam. 18. 19. Judged him from the hand of his enemies, marg.
Rev. 18. 20. For God hath avenged you. Gr. Judged your judgement; that is, considered the wrong done to you, and punished her for it, Chap. 17. 1. Psal. 9. 4. Mic. 7. 9. He hath avenged the death of your predecessors; or the wrongs done to you by her, Jer. 51. 35, 36. Or, it may be an Apostrophe to those in heaven, shewing what cause of joy they had, if they were here to see the fall of Rome. Annot.
Avenger]
Self-avenger, Psal. 8. 2. Aynsworth.
Spoken of Man, Psal. 44. 16. Of God, 1 Thess. 4. 6.
Averse]
Men averse from war, Mic. 2. 8. Peaceable men, neither minding, expecting, nor being provided for hostile violence.
Augment]
To adde, encrease, multiply, Numb. 32. 14.
Augustus]
foreign, luckie, worshipful, worthy to be …. The surname of the Roman Emperous, Luke 2. 1.
Avim]
Wicked, or perverse. A City, Josh. 18. 23.
Avims]
Deut. 2. 23. The ancient inhabitants of the … Countrey, Josh. 13. 3. Ayasworth.
Avites]
A people whose god was Nibhaz, 2 King. 17. 31.
Avith]
Wicked, or perverse. A City, 1 Chr. 1. 46.
Aunt]
Lev. 18. 14. The … explaineth it, thy Fathers Brothers wife, ….
Avouch]
Hast avouched, Deut. 26. 17. or, hast made to say, that is, to promise; in Greek, hast chosen. Aynsw.
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To remove, depart, go away, 1 Sam. 18. 11. To withdraw, or turn from, reject, forsake, Prov. 4. 15. To eschew, Rom. 16. 17. as it's rendred, 1 Pet. 3. 11. To decline, …, as Mariners rack about to escape a danger, 2 Cor. 8. 20. To turn aside from, 1 Tim. 6. 20. To refuse, shift off, 2 Tim. 2. 23. To shun. Tit. 3. 9.
Ausiere]
One that exacteth to the utmost, and more then right, a cruel, hard, unreasonable man, Luke 19. 21, 22.
Author]
;;The beginner or first inventer and maker of a thing. Heb. 12. 3. Jesus the author of our faith.
It's spoken of God the Author of peace, 1 Cor. 14. 33. Jesus Christ the Author of our eternal salvation. Heb. 5. 9. Faith, Heb. 12. 2. Life, Act. 3. 15. Men, such as be the beginners of any thing, Judg. 6. 9. Ezr. 5. 4. or the head, and chief stirrer, mover to a thing, Act. 24. 5.
Author: Beginner, Heb. 12. 2. marg.
Authority]
;;Good estimation and opinion gotten by wisdom and well doing.
;;2. Lawful power enabling to do some publick works. Luk. 20. 2. Tell us by what authority thou doest these things. Mat. 20. 25. Luk. 7. 8.
;;3. Majesty, power and efficacy, Mar. 1. 22. He taught them as one that had authority.
;;4. Jurisdiction, dominion, or power, both lawful and unlawful. 1 Cor. 15. 24. All rule, and all authority, and all power. Some interpreters do largely construe these words, of all good and lawful degrees, distinction of orders, dignities, and authorities in this world, whether Oeconomical, Political, or Ecclesiastical: all which shall cease at the last resurrection, and be wholly abolished; There shall be no more any difference of Husband and Wife, Master and Servant, Father and Children, King and Subjects; Doctors, Pastors shall no more bear such office as now they do in the Church: the like is to be said of all Officers and Governours, of all Honours and Powers, which serve only for the preservation of this life, and therefore be temporary. Yea, it may reach unto the principality of the good Angels and their office, so far forth as they be our Ministers to look unto private persons, or whole States; yea the powers of heaven, to wit, Sun, and Moon, and Stars, and other celestial creatures at the end of the world shall lose their functions which now they have, as to chase away darkness, to cherish and comfort inferior bodies, to expel cold, &c. Howbeit (though all this be true, and the place by this general exposition may … all lawful powers and authorities ordained of God) the fittest interpretation is to understand it more strictly of all rule, authority and power which is contrary to Christ; namely of Tyrants, Persecutors, Herericks, wicked enemies, yea of Sin, Satan, Death: All which now wrestle and rise up in arms (as it were) against the Kingdom and glory of Christ, at whose coming (their substances still remaining) yet their power and authority shall be quite … away, as they shall never be able any more to assail and hurt the people of Christ: and thus to expound it, I am induced by comparing the vers. 24. with vers. 25, 26. where Paul limiteth these authorities and powers to the enemies of Christ, naming death as the last; either for that at the fall of Adam death came in the Last of all, Satan tempting, man consenting, sin acted going before, and death following after as a stipend of sin: or else it is said to be last, because of his continuance and durance in respect of the rest of the external enemies of Christ, who by raising up the bodies of the Saints from bodily death, did so overcome death in the last place.
It's either Domestical, Mar. 13. 34. Political, Supreme, 1 …. 2. 13. Subordinate, Ibid. 14. or Ecclesiastical, humane, and of men, Act. 9. 14. Divine, from God, 1 Cor. 9. 18. Heavenly, in Christ, in Word, by Preaching, Mat. 7. 29. Commanding, Mat. 8. 27. as also in executing judgement, Joh. 5. 27. Antichristian, and so Diabolical, 2 Thess. 2. 4. Revel 13. 2.
Authority: In authority, Prov. 29. 2. or increased marg. In eminent place, 1 Tim. 2. 2. marg. Whatsoever is great in the world, having command over other, 1 Cor. 15. 24. Rule, Luk. 19. 17.
… with all authority, Tit. 2. 15. Teach so, as in a commanding manner from the Lord.