A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part DA – Part DE
D A.
DAbbasheeth]
Objecting insamy, or a lying slander. A … of the inheritance of Zebulun, Josh. 19. 11.
Daherath]
The word, or the thing; or a bee; or subjection. The name of a place, Josh. 19. 12.
Dabereth]
The same. A City, Josh. 21. 28.
Dagger]
Judg. 3. 16. The Original foreign is taken largely, (as ferrum in Latine) and diversly rendred; as in Josh. 5. 2. a …. In Exod. 20. 25. a tool. In 2 Chr. 34. 6. a mattock. In Isa. 21. 15. a sword. Buxtorf. Here it's rendred dagger, whereof Ehud made use in killing Eglon, as being both sharp, and (that it might not be seen) short.
Dagon]
…, or a fish. An Idol of the Philistins, Judg. 16. 23. It was made from the navil downward in … of a fish, but from the navill upwards in form of a man, which is collected from 1 Sam. 5. 4. If it be derived from foreign a fish, we may English him, The Philistines Neptune, or Triton; if of foreign corn, their Saturn, the first inventer of husbandry. Goodwyn.
Dainty]
Meats, Job 33. 20. Heb. meat of desire; that is, such as men use to desire, for the pleasant taste of it, and such as himself would have been glad of in his health. Annot.
Their dunties, Psal. 141. 4. The Chald. expoundeth it of their Songs at banquets. …. Let not their prosperity allure me to be wicked as they are, Plal. 37. 1. & 73. 15. Annot.
Dainty and …]
Rev. 18. 4. Gr. fat and shining. ….
Dalaiab or Delaiab]
The poor of the Lord, a drawing out, …, bough or branch of the Lord, leon or barren. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 3. 24. A Levite, 1 Chr. 24. 18. The Father of Shemajah, Neh. 6. 10. A Prince of Judah, Jer. 36. 12.
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Gen. 14. 17. or Valley. A Valley not far from Jerusalem, where Absalom set up his Pillar, 2 Sam. 18. 18. Ayasw.
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Poverty, bucket, consumer, …. A woman who …. …, Judg. 16. 4.
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A … bucket, leaves, or a … prepared, or numbred; or of foreign poor, and foreign portion, the … or … of the poor. Mar. 8. 10. A Countrey.
Dalmatia]
A … lump, or lightening of vanity. A Countrey, 2 Tim. 4. 10.
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The bouse of …. Est. 9. 7. See ….
Dammage]
put for violence, Prov. 26. 6. marg. Losse, Ezra 4. 22. Diminution or revenues, Dan. 6. 2. Danger, Act 27. 10. Wrong, 2 Cor. 7. 9.
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A little wise. A believing woman, Act. 17. 34.
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A cup of bloud, or bloud of a sack, or the bloud of burning, or of a …, or of foreign likeness, and foreign an har cloath, which was a sign of mourning and grief. A City of Asia the Metropolis of all Syria.
Which looketh towards Damascus, Cant. 7. 4. or espying, watching, beholding the face of Demascus, which was the chief City in Syria, Isa. 7. 8. (called in Hebrew …, … Darmesek, 1 Chron. 18. 5. marg. and …, 2 King. 16. 10.) It lay Northward from mount …, the Inhabitants whereof were commonly enemies to Israel, and often war was between Gods people and them, 1 King. 11. 24, 25. 1 Chron. 18. 5, 6. Isa. 7. 5, 8. Amos 1. 3. wherefore the Tower of Lebanon, looking, (or …, watching) towards Damascus, may intimate here beside the courage, the care also of the Spouse, for the safeguard of her self and her children against the enemy, for in times of danger, they set on Towers and high places, watchmen or spies to give warning of what they saw, 2 Sam. 18. 24, 25. Isa. 21. 6, 9. Ezek. 33. 2, 6. Aynsw.
Dam]
Exod. 22. 30. Mother, Aynsw.
Damming]
Bloody, or dead men. A Countrey, 1 Sam. 17. 1.
Damnable verefies]
2 Pet. 2. 1. Gr. heresies of destruction. Wicked opinions that ruine mens souls; or dangerous schismes, that will rent the Church, and bring destruction on it, if it be not prevented, 1 Cor. 11. 18, 19. Annot.
Damnation]
;;The sentence of Damnation given forth against one. Rev. 17. I will shew thee the damnation of the great Whore, that is, her Damnatory Sentence.
;;2. Temporal chastisement. 1 Cor. 11. 25. They eat their own damnation; that is, by their unreverent eating they procure unto themselves temporal corrections, such as are named, vers. 30. Weakness, sickness, &c. Luk. 23. 40.
;;3. Eternal and extreme pains of the Reprobate in hell, Mat. 23. 14. And they shall have the greater damnation, 2 Pet. 2. 4.
;;4. Both temporal punishment from the Magistrate, and eternal pain from God, Rom. 13. 2.
He that doubteth is damned, if he eat, Rom. 14. 23. namely of his own conscience, which he violated, as he shall be of God also, if he repent not.
Damnation]
1 Corinth. 11. 29. or Judgement, marg.
Shall receive to themselves damnation, Rom. 13. 2. The word foreign, according to its litteral importance, signifies judgement, and no more, and is applyed to humane judgements sometimes, either going to law, 1 Cor. 6. 7. or else sentences of temporal punishments on …, Luk. 23. 40. & 24. 20. Other where it as clearly signifies divine, and that eternal punishment, as Act. 24. 25. Rom. 2. 2, 3, 5. Heb. 6. 2. Dr. Ham. Annot. b.
Eateth and drinketh … to himself, 1 Cor. 11. 29. i. e. Where the worthy receiver hath the benefits of Christs death communicated to him in this feast, and so eats and drinks salvation to himself: this unworthy intruder doth on the contrary bring by than means punishments; and if he repent not by the admonition of those punishments, … … himself. Dr. Hammond on Matth. 26. Annot. e.
Damned]
Mar. 16. 16. Shall be damned. Shall be … and adjudged unto eternal pains, everlasting condemnation, 2 Thess. 2. 12. Greek, judged. Annot.
Damosel]
Spoken of a Virgin, 1 King. 1. 3, 4. One defloured, Deut. 22. 24. A young woman, a widow, Ruth 2. 5, 6. A Concubine, Judg. 19. 3, 4. A waiting maid, or servant, 1 Sam. 25. 42.
Dan]
Judging, or iudgement.
1. The name of a place in the North parts of Canaan, being one of the out-most bounds thereof; Or, one of the two springs (For being the other) whence Jordan issued, Gen. 14. 14.
2. The name of a City, Josh. 19. 47. This afterward was by Philip the Tetrarch in favour of Tiberius, named Cesarea Pilippi; and by Agrippa for Nero's sake, Neronia, as after by the Romanes, Paneas.
3. Jacobs Son by Bilhah, Gen. 30. 6.
4. The posterity or Tribe of Dan, Gen. 49. 16.
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The name of a place, 2 Sam. 24. 6.
Dance]
Psal. 149. 3. & 150. 4. or Pipe, marg.
Dancing]
;;A comely motion of the body, stirred up by the inward and spiritual joy of the heart, to testifie thankfulness for some great benefit or deliverance from God. 2 Sam. 6. 16. David danced before the Ark. 1 Sam. 18. 6. Exod. 15. 20. Judg. 11. 34. & 21. 21. Luk. 15. 25. This kinde of Dancing is lawful and holy.
;;2. A motion of the body, seemly or unseemly, stirred up by natural or carnal joy, to please and satisfie our selves or others. Mar. 6. 23. And the Daughter of Herodias danced and pleased Herod, &c. This kind of dancing is unlawful, and wanton, unless it be privately, by the one sex only for moderate recreation.
See Daunce.
Dandle]
Isa. 66. 12. And be dandled upon her knees; that is, ye shall be carefully and curiously, or tenderly and delicately nursed up, as darling children of great ones especially are wont to be, that are almost perpetually either in the arms, or on the knees. The word here used signifies to take much delight in ought. The Psalmist oft useth it to express his delight in Gods Law, Psal. 119. 16, 24, 46, 70, 77, 92, 142, 144. And of the comforts and refreshments, which from thence his soul received, Psal. 94. 19. It is used of Children playing and sporting themselves, ch. 11. 8. And some therefore here render it, Ye shall play upon her knees, as alluding to children that sit playing upon their Mothers lap. Howbeit, it seemeth not amisse rendred dandled, for in such dandlings children much delight; and it is implyed that they should be as darlings, children of delights, Jer. 19, …. (where this word also is used) and children of dandlings, as they seem tearmed, Lam. 2. 20. It hath reference to the manner of parents, that are wont to have their young ones, their darling ones especially, whom they take most delight in, … in their Iaps, on their knees, Gen. 30. 3. & 50. 23. Ruth 4. 16. Annot.
Danger]
Corporal, Act. 27. 9. & 19. 40. Corporal, spiritual, and …, Mat. 5. 21, 22. Danger pretended for by-ends, Act. 19. 27.
Is in danger of eternal damnation, Mar. 3. 29. That is, shall certainly be damned.
Dangerous]
Unsafe, perilous, full of danger, Act. 27. 9.
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Judgement of God. The Son of David by Abigail, 1 Chr. 3. 1. One of the posterity of Ithamar, Ezra 8. 2. One of the bloud royal of Judah, led captive unto Babylon, Dan. 1. 3.
Danites]
Judg. 13. 2. Such as were of the Tribe of Dan, or his posterity; who bordering upon the Land of the Philistins, were most subject to their incursions and oppressions. Annot.
Dannah]
Judging, or judgement. A City, Josh. 15. 49.
Dara]
Generation; the habitation of a shepheard, of fellowship, or of iniquity. The Son of Zerah, 1 Chron. 2. 6.
Darda]
The generation, or dwelling place of knowledge. The Son of Mahol, 1 King. 4. 31.
Dare]
Boldly to enterprise, and adventure to do a thing, not to be afraid, Job 41. 10.
I durst not, Job 32. 6. Heb. I feared, marg.
Darius]
Requiring, or inquiring. The King of the Medes, Dan. 5. 31. Of the Persians, Neh. 12. 22.
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Lev. 13. 6. Dim, obscure. Aynsw. Numb. 12. 8. Hidden.
Dark speeches, or hidden speeches, riddles. A dark speech is called in Hebr. …, of sharpness, because it requireth sharpeness of wit, both to propound and expound the same, Judg. 14. 13, 14. And it is of the nature of a parable, Ezek. 17. 2, 3. And all close and hidden doctrine is called a riddle, Psal. 49. 5. So translated, 1 Cor. 13. 12. and sometime hidden things, Mat. 13. 35. from Psal. 78. 2. …. … 3. 9. Have no light. Annot. Job 18. 6. or darkened, it shall be clean taken away, and darkness come in the stead of it, Annot. Joel 2. 10. With over shadowing …, and swarms of these devouring vermines. Annot.
It's spoken of the Plague, Lev. 13. 6. Speeches, Numb. 12. 8. Waters, 2 Sam. 22. 12. (Hebr, binding of waters, marg.) Stars Job 3. 9. Light, Job 18. 6. Cloud; Job 22. 13. Way, Psal. 35. 6. Saying, Psal. 49. 4. Places of the earth, Psal. 74. 20. (darknesses, base, or mean, as in Prov. 22. 29. dark or obscure persons, are the lase sort; the Greek here translateth it dark persons, meaning the vile graceless enemies. Aynsw.) Sayings, Psal. 78. 2. & Prov. 1. 6. Night, Prov. 7. 9. Mountains, Jer. 13. 16. Places, Lam. 3. 6. Day, Ezek. 34. 12. Amos 5. 8. …, Dan. 8. 23. Sun and Moon, Joel 2. 9. Night and day, Mic. 3. 6.
Darkly]
1 Cor. 13. 12. foreign, in a riddle. A proverbial or … speech, and the Apostle hath reference to Numb. 12. 8. and implyeth, that there is such a difference between the imperfect knowledge which we have in this life, and the perfect knowledge which we have in the life to come, as is between the propounding the same thing in the obscurity of a riddle, and declaring of it in plain, proper, and significant terms. Annot.
Darken]
To hide and deface; or as the Gr. translateth, corrupt, Exod. 10. 15. Anysw. To defeat, prove helpless, Isa. 9. 30. He shall see no more light, hope, and help of relief from above, then from below. Annot. Isa. 9. 19. To overspred and overwhelm with calamities and afflictions, as chap. 8. 22. & vers. 1. The Chald. rendreth it desolated; or as others read it, burnt up, as Joel 2. 3. Annot. Isa. 24. 11. To extinguish, put out, passe away. … Ezek. 30. 18. To restrain, marg. Zech. 11. 17. Shall see nothing.
It's both corporal, Eccl. 12. 2, 3. and spiritual; applyed unto the heart, Rom. 1. 21. understanding, Eph 4. 18.
Darkened]
put for, made miserable, Isa. 9. 19. Suppressed or taken away, Isa. 24. 11, Restrained, Ezek. 30. 18. To bring calamity, Amos 8. 9.
Land darkened]
;;A people covered and overwhelmed with calamities and miseries, as with darkness, Isa. 9. 19. The Land is darkened.
Darkeneth counsel]
Job 38. 2. Cast a black colour on the soverain brightness of the justice and wisdom of my providence, accusing my judgements of folly and injustice, who by searching out the counsel of his own corrupt reason, makes it the more obscure, and declares his own folly, Rom. 1. 22. Annot.
Darkish]
Lev. 13. 39. Somewhat dark, as in vers. 6. So that their witness (saith Sol. Jarchi.) is not strong, but somewhat dark. Aynsw.
Darkness]
;;The absence, privation, or want of natural light. Gen. 1. 4. God separated light from darkness. Mat. 27. 47. This is natural darkness.
;;2. Ignorance and unbelief, which is the absence and want of spiritual light, 1 Thess. 5. 4. Ye are not in darkness. Eph. 5. 11. Job. 3. 19. 1 Joh. 2. 11. This is spiritual darkness, containing the fearful estate of unbelievers in this world.
;;3. The woful and uncomfortable estate of the damnned in hell, which is the absence and want of heavenly light, Mat. 22. 13. Cast him into utter darkeness, Mat. 8. 2. This is eternal darkness; the second death, 2 Pet. 2. 4.
;;4 Calamity and sorrow, as light doth sometime signifie deliverance and joy, Lam. 3. 26. Isa. 45. 6. Psal. 18. 28. Thou (O Lord) … lighten my darkness, i. e. thou wilt turn my sorrow into prosperity and joy. Joel 2. 2. A day of darkness, that is, of affliction and sorrow: and very often in the Prophets and Psalms. Isa. 8. 22. Plentiful and hopeless miseries.
;;5. The minde of all men, such as it is since their fall, full of blindeness and sin. Joh. 1. 5. That light shined in the darkness, &c. Eph. 5. 8. Auxesis. It is more to call them darkness, then to say they were dark or blinde.
;;6. Sin and wretchedness, the wages of sin. 1 Joh. 1. 5. And in God there is no darkness.
;;7. A private and secret place, where some few persons only be present. Mat. 10. 27. What I tell you in darkness; that is, at home in private, as appeareth by comparing vers. 27. the first part of it with the latter.
Natural, Gen. 1. 4. Miraculcus, Exod. 10. 21. Matth. 27. 45. Spirituall.
1. The estate of the unregenerate, Ephes. 5. 8.
2. The several sins wherein the ungodly walk, Eph. 5. 11. 1 Joh. 1. 6.
Eternal, Mat. 25. 30. It's also put for,
1. Afflictions of all sorts, Job 19. 8. Lam. 3. 2. Isa. 5. 30.
2. The grave, Job 10. 22.
3. Dark clouds, as which seem to bring darkness with them, Psal. 18. 9.
4. Sin and wickedness, 1 Joh. 1. 5.
5. The hellish rout of reprobate Angels a nd men, Luk. 22. 53.
6. The night, Gen. 1. 5.
7. Satans Kingdom, Col. 1. 13.
8. Ignorance of Christ our light, Joh. 3. 19.
9. Blinde condition and uncomfortable estate upon the losse of Christ, and light of his Word, Joh. 12. 35.
10. The losse of natural sight for a while, Act. 13. 11.
11. Undiscoverableness to man, 1 Cor. 4. 5.
12. An obscure place, 2 Pet. 1. 19. Uncomfortableness, Job 3. 6.
Blackness of darkness]
;;Most thick and grosse Darkness, even misery most horrible and fearful, Jude vers. 13.
To be cast into utter darkness]
;;To be excluded from celestial happiness, and live for ever in hellish misery, Mat. 22. 13.
Chains of darkness]
;;Darkness as it were Chains, bound in most miserable and horrible condition, 2 Pet. 2, 4. A Metaphor or speech borrowed from condemned malefactors, which lie fast tyed in bonds and cords in the stench of the prison, or some ugly loathsome dungeon, till they be thence drawn out to execution: so are the Devils held surely in torments most grievous till the last judgement, when Gods wrath shall to the full fall upon them. Whereunto that speech of the unclean spirits in the Gospel seemeth to have relation, Art thou come to torment us before the time? The Devils are so punished already, as with continual trembling they do expect more torment, as the Malefactor doth which is kept close ond safe in prison after his sentence.
Darkness over all the Land]
;;A miraculous work of God, Eclipsing the Sun at the death of his Son throughout the Countrey of Judea. As sometimes the Jews had light in Goshen, when the Aegyptians were all covered with darkness: So now light was denyed to the Jews for three hours, when all the world had it; which was such a wonder, as Ethnicks registred it in their publick Records; being the more wondrous, because it happened in the full Moon at the Passover. Mat. 27. 45. There was darkness over all the Land. It is familiar with Scriptures, when Land is named without addition, to understand thereby Judea or …: and Land to be put for a Religion or Countrey, we finde Mat. 9. 2, 6. Luk. 4. 64. They which think this darkness to be universal over the whole world, follow Tertullian for their Author.
To love darkness]
;;To take full pleasure and delight in unbelief and sin. Joh. 3. 19. Men loved darkness rather then light.
Power of darkness]
;;The dominion, rule, and sway which Satan and sin do bear over all unregenerate persons. Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness.
Prince of darkness]
;;Satan the Captain and Ringleader of all wicked men, even of the whole hellish rout. Ephes. 6. 12. The Princes of the darkness of this world.
To put darkness for light]
;;is, To pervert the truth, calling good evill, and evill good; falsehood truth, and truth errour, Isa. 5. 20.
To sit in darkness]
;;To remain and abide secure in the state of sin and wretchedness. Luk. 1. 79. To give light to them that sit in darkness.
Sun darkened and stars]
;;Most grievous calamities, as in Ezek. 32. 8. Joel 2. 31. & 3. 15. Mat. 24. 29. Luk. 21. 15. Isa. 13. 10. Stars and constellation (which is something compact of many stars) be in Chaldea, whereof Isaiah speaks, most bright and clear for the rarity and thinness of the Clouds there.
Utter darkness]
;;Such Darkness and misery as is without the Kingdom of heaven; for in the Kingdom there is light and happiness, Mat. 22. 13. It signifieth bodily and spiritual miseries, Isa. 9. 2.
Ones way to be dark]
That is, his life to be toublesome and dangerous, Psal. 35. 6.
To walk in darkness]
;;To lead such a kinde of life, as they do, which shun and flie the light of the Word: A sinfull life. 1 Joh. 1. 6. He that walketh in darkness.
Works of darkness]
;;All evill and finful works, which come from darkness of ignorance, and lead to darkness of misery, and be done of such as hate the light, Eph. 5. 11. 1 Thess. 5. 8. Rom. 13. 12. Cast away the works of darkness: that is, such works as blinde Gentiles live in, and commit.
Darkon]
Of generation; the possession or buying of a dwelling house. One, whose children returned from the captivity, Ezr. 2. 56.
Darling]
put for an only one, Psal. 22. 20. & 35. 17. marg. Whereby the soul may be understood.
Dart]
Taken properly for a light javelin or instrument, which was wont to be shot or thrown, Job 41. 26. Figuratively, for the prick or sting of a guilty conscience, Prov. 7. 23.
Darts: 2 Chron. 32. 5. or Swords, or Weapons, marg.
Fiery darts]
;;The most fierce and dangerous temptations which Satan casteth at us (as fiery darts) to destroy our faith. Eph. 6. 16. That ye may quench all the fiery Darts of the Devil. These Darts, faith doth so extinguish, as the faithful are not hurt by them.
Dash]
To break, Exod. 15. 6. To scatter, Psal. 2. 9. Aynsw. Psal. 91. 12. To hurt, Aynsw. Psal. 137. 9. To beat or knock out ones brains, Jer. 13. 14. By dashing, to dissolve, dissipate, or break to pieces, Isa. 27. 9. & 22. 28. And it is so applyed to Potters ware, Psal. 2. 9. to earthen pitchers. Judg. 7. 19. to bottles, as here, & chap. 48. 12. Annot.
He that dasheth in pieces, Nah. 2. 1. or, the dispersor or hammer, who was the Mede, …, and …. ….
Dathan]
Custom or Law: one who rebelled against Moses and Aaron, Numb. 16. 1, &c.
Daughter]
;;A Woman-childe, or a female, as Thamar the Daughter of David.
;;2. The holy Catholick Church, even the company or body of all true believers, called a Daughter in respect of God her Father, who hath spiritually begotten her, and loved her as his Daughter. Psal. 45. 9, 10, 13. The Kings Daughter is all glorious within.
;;3. Particular Churchrs or Congregations professing the faith of Christ, and begotten of that immortal seed of the Word, which first came out of Jerusalem. Cant. 1. 2. I am black, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. Those Churches are called Daughters of Sion and of Jerusalem, Isa. 61. 11. Because they were begotten by the Doctrine that came out from thence. Isa. 2. 3. And the Law shall go sorth of Sion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
;;4. False Churches, which make a great shew of piety, and yet are but the assemblies of Idolaters and Hereticks. Cant. 2. 2. So is my love amongst the Daughters. Allo, in Cant. 6. 8. it signifies strange people and nations.
;;5. A Neece, or a Sons daughter. Exod. 2. 21. Who gave to Moses, Zipporah his Daughter.
;;6. Posterity, or off-spring. Luk. 1. 5. Which was of the daughters of Aaron. It signifieth Women. Gen. 34. 1. & 36. 13. Also daughters is put for one daughter, Dinah, Gen. 46. 7. … sons used for son, vers. 23. which is usual with the Hebrews to put one number for the other.
;;7. A …. Mat. 21. 5, Tell ye the Daughters of Sion; that is, the City of Sion: Also people, Isa. 10. 30.
;;8. Any Town, or Village, or place bordering in or belonging to some City or greater place, Ezr. 26. 6. Josh. 15. 42. 2 Chr. 13. 10. Psal. 68. 11.;;
;;So Sion is called the daughter of Jerusalem, Zech. 9. 9. Mat. 21. 5.;;
It's taken also for the Congregation, or Common-wealth, Psal. 137. 8. & 9. 15. All the women of a City, Cant. 1. 5. Or, Common-wealth and Kingdom, 2 Sam. 1. 24. Isa. 16. 2. Branches of trees, Gen. 49. 22. marg. Ones Sons wife, Ruth. 3. 18. Women, Gen. 34. 1. Ones sister, Gen. 34. 17. One that imitareth another in holyness, 1 Pet. 3. 6. A word used for comfort and encouragement, Ruth. 3. 10. Mat. 9. 22.
Daughter of Belial]
1 Sam. 1. 16. put for, A wicked woman.
The daughters of Egypt]
Jer. 46. 11. of Babylon, Jer. 51. 33. Edom, Lam. 4. 21. Moab, Isa. 16. 2. Sodom, &c. Ezek. 16. 46. for Aegypt, Babylon, Edom, Moab, Sodom, &c.
Princes Daughter]
Cant. 7. 1. This title belongeth only to such as believe in Christ, which are born not of blouds, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, Joh. 1. 13. The word may be rendred, Daughter of the beautiful, or bounteous Princes daughter, or of the Prince, the …; for Princes were styled bountiful, or benefactors, Luk. 22. 25. as being free, liberal, and willing to do good unto others. Hereby is signified that she was of noble race, and ingenuous disposition, ready and willing to serve the Lord, and propogate the grace of his Gospel … others Aynsworth.
Daughters]
Ezek. 27. 16. or Cities, marg. 1 Pet. 3. 6. Gr. children, marg.
Daughters]
;;Strange Nations and people, which do admire the glory of the Church, Cant. 6. 9. The daughters have seen her, and counted her blessed.
The congregations of peoples; as the Scriptures mention, the Daughter of Jerusalem, the daughter of Tyrus, and many the like. So is my love among the daughters, Cant. 2. 2. Aynsworth.
The word Daughters when absolute and solitary hath seldom a good sense, like women that lose their good name, not only by keeping ill company, but by keeping none. As these are exceeded by the Church in beauty, so shall they be at last in power; they outgrow and distress her for the present, but that flourishing is but like the crackling of thorns under the pot, which the fire of the Lords jealousie shall consume like dry …, Isa. 27. 4. Annot.
Careless Daughters]
Isa. 32. 9. for Cities abounding in riot and excess of all pleasures dreaming of nothing else but safety and ease.
Daughters of Jerusalem]
;;Women which dwelt at Jerusalem. Luk. 23. 28. Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me. And often in the Book of Lamentation, it is so taken.
;;2. Churches begotten by the Word, which came forth from Jerusalem: as afore, Cant. 1. 2. O ye daughters of Jerusalem.
;;It is usual in Scripture, by Daughters to signifie Churches or Congregations. The reason is, because every chief City was counted a Mother. 2 Sam. 20. 19. Thou seekest to destroy a City and a Mother in Israel, (whereupon the Apostle calleth Jerusalem, the Mother of us all, Gal. 4. 26.) The Villages that were near and pertained to such Cities, are called Daughters, Josh. 15. 45. 2 Chr. 13. Psal. 68. 11. And the Inhabitants there seated, or assemblies of people resorting thither, are likewise called Daughters, as being bred, born, and nourished there. See Lam. 2. 19. Mat. 21. 5. Zach. 9. 9. Jer. 4. 11, &c.
Daughters of Jerusalem]
;;Either false sisters of the Church, the degenerate assemblies of Idolaters, or the particular Congregations, begotten of the Word, which came out of Jerusalem. The latter interpretation is the better, Cant. 2. 7. I charge ye O Daughters of Jerusalem.
The Daughters of Jerusalem were nothing else but her self in her distinct parts and branches. Annot.
The friends of Christ and his Church, the Elect of God, though not yet perfectly instructed in the way of the Lord, Cant. 5. 8, 9. & 6. 1. As the Villages belonging to … City, are usually called the daughters of that City, Numb. 21. 21, 25. 1 Chr. 7. 28. So Jerusalem which is above is the mother of us all, Gal. 4. 26. whose daughters are the particular Churches and Christians called Virgins, 2 Cor. 11. 2. Rev. 14. 4. and Sodom and Samaria are prophesied of, that they should be given to Jerusalem for daughters, Ezek. 16. 61. and thus in Psal. 45. 13, 14. The Kings daughter (the Church) is brought … the King in rayment of Needlework, and Virgins her friends after her. Aynsw.
Hereof mention is also Cant. 3. 5, 10. and in v. 11. where they are tearmed the daughters of Zion, so in chap. 5. 8. 16. and in chap. 8. 4.
Daughters of singing]
;;The ears which take delight in musick. Eccl. 12. 4. And all the daughters of singing shall be ….
David]
;;Properly, such a man so called, the Son of Jesse, King of Israel, to whom was made the promise of the Messiah to come of his seed, and to sit upon his throne by just succession: but typically and figuratively Christ the spiritual King of his Church, of whom David both in peace and war, in trouble, and in regard of enemies of all kindes, did carry a most clear figure and representation, as in Isa. 9. 7. Jer. 33. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Hos. 3. 4, 5. Psal. 22. throughout. Solomon in the Dedication of the Temple, taking on him the Priestly function of praying and teaching, was a type of Christ, 2 Chr. 6. 1, 2, 3, &c. 2 Sam. 7. 15, 16, 17, &c. Psal. 132. 11, 12, &c. Isa. 11. 1.
;;David:;;
;;1. The King of Judah, and Father of Solomon.;;
;;2. Christ himself coming of Davids kindred, Jer. 30. 9. Ezek. 34. 23. & 37. 24, 25.;;
The word signifieth Beloved.
David: The name of one of the Sons of Ishai, a King of Israel, a type of Christ in his unction, vocation, enemies, adversaries, deliverances: Also sometime it signifieth Christ the King and only Saviour of his people. Hos. 3. 5.
David]
Thy neck is like the tower of David, Cant. 4. 4. mention is made hereof in Neh. 3. 19, 25. or the fort of Zion which David took, and builded, 2 Sam. 5. 7, 9. … is meant that her neck was upright, high, and strong: for the neck is named in Hebrew …, of firmness and strength, a Tower, (Migdal) is a building great and high, Isa. 2. 15. This signifieth the magnanimity and high courage, the sure hope, the bold and comfortable carriage of the Church, whilest she being by faith united unto Christ her head, doth no longer bow down her neck to bear the yoke of her enemies, to serve Satan and sin any more, or to be a servant unto men, Rom. 6. 17, 18. 1 Cor. 7. 23. but by the weapons of her warfare (2 Cor. 10. 4.) she standeth, and withstandeth in the evil day, Eph. 6. 11, 17. Aynsw. So in effect Annot.
David]
;;The Book of Psalms penned by David. A Metonymie. Saying in David, Heb. 4. 7.
Daunce]
It's either lawful or unlawful.
Lawful, ordinary, as at a seasonable time, Eccl. 3. 4. A feast, Judg. 21. 19, 21. Extraordinary, as Exod. 15. 20. 2 Sam. 6. 14. Judg. 11. 34. 1 Sam. 18. 6. Luk. 15. 25. Yea, and thus was the Lord to be praised, Psal. 149. 3. & 150. 4. Implying matter of mirth, and gladness, Lam. 5. 15. Jer. 31. 4.
Unlawful, as Exod. 32. 32. 19. 1 Sam. 30. 16. Mar. 6. 22. See Dancing.
Dawbe]
Taken properly, Exod. 2. 3, Figuratively, for to shut, spoken of God with relation unto Idolaters, Isa. 44. 18. marg. To use vain, frivilous, and flattering excuses and pretexts, spoken of foolish seducing Prophets, Ezek. 13. 3, 10, 11, &c. & 22. 28.
Dawbing]
Ezek. 13. 12. or plaistering. D. Trans. meaning their flattering predictions. Annot.
Dawn]
Mat. 28. 1. The Original foreign, signifieth to wax toward the light, although it be not light. Leigh C. S. To be light or clear, shine, appear, or shew it self, foreign, 2 Pet 1 19.
Dawning of the day]
Job 3. 9. Heb. the eyelids of the morning, marg.
Dawning]
The Jews divided their night into four Watches. Each watch containing three lesser hours.
The first, Lam. 2. 19.
The second tearmed the Middle-watch. Judg. 7. 19. because it dured till mid-night.
The third held till three in the morning, Luk. 12. 38.
The fourth called the Morning-watch, Exod. 14. 24. ended at six in the morning.
The 1. was termed the Even.
The 2. Midnight.
The 3. Cock-crowing.
The 4. The …. All expressed by our Saviour, Mar. 13. 35. Goodwyn.
Day]
;;The space of 24 hours, and this is the Natural day: or, of 12 hours, which is the Artificial day, Joh. 11. 9. Gen. 1. 4, 5. & 47. 9.
;;Note: Some begun the Day at Evening, some at Morning, some at Noon-day, some at Mid-night. Moses saith, Evening and Morning were the first day. Gen. 1.
;;2. Time generally, Mat. 3. 1. In those dayes, Luk. 1. 5. Gen. 2. 4. and 17. In Gen. 1. 5. it is used both for the Artificial and Natural day.
;;3. The time of grace, under the light of the Gospel. Rom. 13. 12. The day is come. Also, vers. 13. Heb. 4. 7. Act. 3. 24. All the Prophets spake of these days. It signifies the Night, Isa. 10. 17. 2 King. 19. 35.
;;4. The light of truth, or the lightsome doctrine of heavenly truth, Joh. 9. 4. While it is day, 1 Cor. 3. 13. 1 Thess. 5. 8.
;;5. The space that a man liveth in, or doth any notable act, or suffereth any great thing. Joh. 8. 56. Abraham rejoyced to see my day: Also a point of time. Gen. 2. 17. That day, &c.
;;6. Year, Num. 14. 34. Ezek. 4. 6. One day shall be for a year, &c. Gen. 27. 46.
;;7. Judgement. 1 Cor. 4. 3. Or of mans day. So it is in the Original, for Judgement.
;;8. The time of ones affliction. Psal. 116. 2. In that my day, …. vers. 12. Psal. 37. 12. Job 28. 20. Jer. 50. 27. Ezek. 25. 29. Isa. 9. 4. Hos. 1. 11. Psal. 137. 7 1 Sam. 26. 10.
;;9. Judaical feasts and festivals appointed by the Law of God, as the Jewish Sabbath, Pentecost, Easter, feasts of Tabernables, or Expiation, of Trumpets, New Moons: These dayes some weak believers amongst the Jews did still observe and keep, through ignorance of their liberty, purchased by the Passion of our Lord, Rom. 14. 5. One man esteemeth one day … another, &c. Such as expound this of choice of dayes, for abstinence and fasting, do much misse of the Apostles meaning and drift (howsoever some Fathers favour that Exposition, as Ambrose, Origen, Chrysostom, Anselm, &c.) For the Apostle laboureth to compound the Controversie between believing Jews and Gentiles, as is apparent by vers. 2. Also of such choice of dayes for meat, we read of none in the Apostles time, nor long after: Neither would he say that such did eat to the Lord, as by their own invention observed dayes for abstinence.
;;10. A time of opportunity, whether by day or by night, to do any thing therein, whether good or evill, 1 Sam. 26. 8.;;
;;11. The New Testament in comparison of the Old, which is dark with shadows: so some understand, Rom. 13. 12.;;
;;12. The time of prosperity.;;
;;13. Any time of good opportunity, or opportunity to do good, …. 9. 4.;;
It's also put for, The time present, 1 Sam. 6. 13. The time of Gods judgments, Psal. 37. 13. time of life, Joh. 8. 56. Shortly, Job 23. 14. Any time, Gen. 2. 17. A while, 1 Sam. 9. 27. Suddenly, and in a moment, Rev. 18. 8. The time or continuance of ones reign, 1 King. 14. 20. The day of death or judgement, Luk. 21. 34.
It may be considered also by way of relation, as, The dayes of heaven, Deut. 11. 21. for, The time of the heavens continuance, The day of wrath, Rom. 2. 5. for, The time of punishment, Length of dayes, Psal. 91. 16. for Long life. Day of visitation, Isa. 1. 3. for, The time of Gods judgements to be inflicted; or acoording to, 1 Pet. 2. 12. The day of mercy. All day long, Rom. 10. 21. for, Alwayes, or upon every occasion. There's also mention of a day of battel, a day of tribulation, &c. which are easie to be understood.
Day]
Rev. 9. 15. … was prepared for an hour and a day, &c. or, at an hour, &c. It may signifie their readiness to go at any time, when they should be loosed. Or, to follow the work from time to time. Or, at the time appointed by God. Or, a short time, see chap. 3. 10. Or, the time of their coming to take Constantinople, from the beginning of their Empire, which is to be reckoned from their taking of Babylon, was 396. years, and some odde time, for dayes in the Prophets are put for years, vers. 5. ….
This innumeration of the four parts of time, an hour, a day consisting of 24 hours, a month consisting of 30 dayes, a year consisting of 12 months, letteth us see the restless disposition of the Devil to do wickedly. He is ever prepared, if he be permitted. Cowper.
Day]
In the day when she shall be spoken of, Cant. 8. 8. or, wherein speech shall be of her, or unto her, or against her. The day of grace is not alwayes at hand; he who is the Lord of times and seasons, hath ordained and appointed such opportunities, according to his own pleasure. As he came in the fulness of time; that is, the time decreed, and predetermined by himself; so did he ordain a time and set a day, for the visiting of the Gentiles, that they might be gathered into a setled Church, and called into the communion of the Covenant of grace, by the Gospel, which should be revealed. Annot.
When the fame of her calling and conversion shall come abroad, what furtherance shall we yeeld, to encrease, settle, and stablish her in the truth? This sheweth the duty of love from one Church to another in communicating their graces each to other, and praying one for another, Act. 11. 19, 22, 23. But inasmuch as no sooner do a people turn to the Lord, but the wicked do oppose in word and work: the Hebrews in their Chaldee Paraphrase expound the words here, What shall we do for our Sister in the day when the Nations shall speak to go up against her to warre? Aynsw.
Another day, to day]
A certain day, …. 4. 7.
Day-break]
;;The clear day of Christ his first coming in the flesh, by the fuller Revelation of himself, to chase away the shadowes of the Law, in dark rites and ceremonies.
;;Also the perfect clear day of his second coming in glory, when all obscurity being done away, there shall beak forth a … light, Cant. 2. 17. untill the day break, and the shadows flie away.
Day by day, or daply offerings]
;;Our continual and daily prayers, and our set worship of God, acceptable to him by Christ, who was figured by the Lamb offered up every day in the morning and evening. Num. 28. 3. Offer dayly two Lambs without spot. See the practise of Elias, 1 King. 18. 36. Dan. 9. 21. Cornelius, Act. 10. 23. for daily set prayers.
Day by day]
Luk. 11. 3. or for the day, marg.
From day to day]
2 Sam. 13. 4. Heb. morning by morning, marg.
The great day of God Almighty]
Rev. 16. 14. wherein God shall shew his Almighty power in destroying the Popish Princes. Chap. 19. 17. ….
It is usual in holy Scripture to call that day a great day, wherein the Lord works any memorable and notable work, and so this battel of the great day, may signifie, the battel of Arma-Geddon, wherein the … of the Beast and his confederate Kings shall be overthrown, and God shall strike him with desolation. Cowper.
This will indeed be a great day, as whereof the judgement will be great and wonderful, the destruction of so many enemies. Pareus.
The great day of his wrath is come]
Rev. 6. 17. The day of vengeance which the bloud of Martyrs called upon, and cryed so loud for, vers. 10. See Isa. 34. 6, 8. Joel 2. 1, 2, 31. Annot.
Day of darkness]
;;Times of affliction and trouble, or sharpe and hard times, Joel 2. 2. A day of darkness, and of blackness.
Darkness]
Rev. 16. 10. And his kingdom was full of darkness. By the destruction of the City of Rome, shall the Government and power of the Pope, which hitherto he hath used, be made extremly void, and all his dispatches or commissions suspended. But the Papacy shall not yet by this means be utterly dissolved, and taken away. For this doth follow afterwards, at the powring of the Seventh vial, in the last war, in a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Clav. Apocal. pag. 105, 106. This plague is proportionable to his sin. In the first Trumpet God forewarned his Church, how the Beast figured there by a fallen star, (that is, an Apostate preacher) having the key of the bottomless pit, should bring out a smoke to darken the sun and the air, Rev. 9. 1. which he did, therefore now the Lord with a punishment correspondent to his sin darkneth his kingdom. In it self it is a kingdom of darkness; to them it is a principle, that ignorance is the Mother of devotion, but in this sense, the Lord is said to darken it, because he shall spoil it of all that credit and estimation which it had before in the world. ….
High day]
Gen. 29. 7. Heb. the day is great, marg.
Holy day]
;;A day set a part to holy use. Isa. 58. 13. From … thy will on my holy day. Such are to be consecrate … the honour of God alone.
Day of the Lord, or of Christ]
;;The time of his coming in the … to live amongst us. Luk. 17. 22. Ye shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of man. This time of Christs life is called the day of his flesh. Heb. 5. 7. In the dayes of his flesh. Mal. 4. 1.
;;2. The Christians Sabbath called Sunday, Revel. 1. 10.;;
;;3. The time of some particular judgement of God upon some people or places, Joel 2. 1. Amos 1. Obad. v. 15.;;
;;4. The time of Christs graces offered to a sinner, Luk. 17. 22.;;
;;5. The time of his second coming to judgement in glory and majesty. Luk. 17. 24. So shall the Son of man be in his day, 2 Pet. 3. 10. The day of the Lord shall come. This is called, The day of …, Condemnation and Destruction, in respect of the wicked, Rom. 2. 5. 2 Pet. 5. 7. A day of Redemption and delivering in respect of the godly, who are then to be set frec from all kinde of evils. Luk. 21. 28. A day of Revelation, in respect of all Men and Angels, who shall be then revealed and manifested what they be, and what they have done. A day of Judgement, 2 Pet. 2. 9. because therein all persons are to be tryed and adjudged unto that condition and state unto which they must stick for ever.
;;Finally, That day, by an excellency being the Last day, and Great day, full of Glory to Christ, of Joy to the Good, of Sorrow to the wicked, Joh. 6. 36. 2 Pet. 3. 11. After which there shall be no succession of Dayes and Nights, but one perpetual Day for the Righteous, and one perpetual Night for the Sinners and Ungodly.
The Lords day]
;;The first day of the week, being the first day of the Creation, called commonly Sunday, Rev. 1. 10. I was ravished in the spirit on the Lords day; so called, for that our Lord rising from death on that day, brought forth the light of a new and eternal world. It is also kept for Remembrance of the Mystery of our Lords resurrection, on which day, for that end solemn assemblies were kept by the faithful, 1 Cor. 16. 2. Act. 20. 7. By our Lords appointment. Act. 1. 3. Papists erre, in making the constitution of this day to be a meer Tradition of the Church, without any authority of Scripture.
Lords day]
Rev. 1. 10. The day on which our Saviour rose again, the first day of the week on which the Church constantly met for the publick service of God. The time and place are mentioned, to confirm the truth of the History, and the day, to add more honour to that day which is here called the Lords day, as the Lords table, 1 Cor. 10. 21. and the Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 11. 20. Annot.
The Lords day: Not by …, for so all dayes are his; not by Destination, for that intendeth a time yet to come; and so the day of general judgement is his, 1 Thess. 5. 2. but by Consecration, Choice, and Institution. Leighs Annot.
Day of the Lord]
;;A time appointed by the Lord, wherein to assemble the Heathens to execute his judgements against the Edomites, Obad. v. 15. For the Day of the … is near.
… of mariage]
;;The last and great day, when the mariage, begun here between Christ and his Church, by betrothing, shall be perfected and consummate with excecding glcry to the great rejoycing and making glad, both of Husband and Spouse. Therefore called the Day of the gladness of his heart, Cant. 3. v. last, Come forth ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his marriage.
Day of Midian]
;;The time when the Midianites were by Gedeon marvellously confounded and destroyed, when the people of Israel were so freed from very great distresses, as yet their joy was not lasting, Isa. 9. 4. Iudg. 7. 22. Isa. 10. 25. This renowned victory twice by Isaiah reported, is an example of Gods goodness and might, in delivering his.
To day and to morrow]
;;Time that now is, and the time to come, even the whole time of his offence. Luk. 13. 32. I will heal still to day and to morrow.
;;Note: As to day is for the time present, and to morrow for all time to come, so yesterday, and the day before are used for all time past, Gen. 31. 2, 5. Exod. 4. 10. & 5. 7. 14.
Day and night]
;;Perpetually, for ever and without any end. Rev. 14. 11. They shall have no rest day or night. Isa. 27. 3.
;;2. Continually, without ceasing, so long as this world lasts. Rev. 12. 10. Which accuseth them before our God day and night.
;;Not in the day time only, but in the night also, even every day, Luk. 2. 37.
Day and night]
;;Continually, or time without any end, or any ceasing, even for ever and ever. Revel. 20. 10. And shall be tormented even day and night for evermore.
Day nor night]
;;Never, at no time ceasing to praise God, but keeping on therein a perpetual tenor. Revel. 4. 8. And they ceased not, day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, &c.
At one day]
;;Very shortly, and at one instant, Rev. 18. 8. The Plague shall come at one day; that is, suddenly, and in a moment, 1 Pet. 3. 10.
Her plagues shall come in one day, Rev. 18. 8. In a short time, called one hour, vers. 10, 17, 19. Not that one day would end the business, but her enemies should not give over the seige, till they had taken it. Or, in one day; that is, suddenly, against her expectation, Isa. 47. 9, 11. ….
One day as 1000 yeers]
;;That with God there is no place for such distance of time, shorter or longer, as it is with men, 2 Pet. 2. 8.
;;Such as draw this to prove the continuance of the world to be but 6000 years, according to the number of the dayes in the Week, do willingly dote.
Day of salvation]
;;Time of the Gospel, wherein the glad tydings of Salvation are published and offered. … Cor. 6. 2. This is the day of salvation.
Seventh day]
;;The day which was the seventh from the creation, which is our Saterday, Heb. 4. 4.
Day of slaughter]
;;A day appointed for a solemn feast, where beasts were slaughtered by the Jews for sacrifice. Jam. 5. 5. As in a day of slaughter.
Day smitten, or shone not]
;;The light of divine truth obscured and darkened by a most thick cloud of filthy ignorance, sent by the just judgement of God, to punish such … were willingly blinde, at the shining forth of the Gospel. Rev. 8. 12. And the day was smitten, or shone not. Some other by the [Day-smitten, or shone not] do understand the taking away of the gladness and joy which men had in the fruition and injoying of the light of the Gospel. These two senses, although they seem to differ, yet they do after a sort meet in one: the latter, being as the effect; and the former as the cause. For the darkening of the truth of God must needs diminish the joy of Gods people.
Day of temptation]
;;All the time wherein God tryed his people. Psal. 95. 8. In the day of temptation in the wilderness.
Day of temptation]
;;The time when the people of Israel tempted God by their contention and striving, as if they would try his power and justice, Heb. … 8.
Day-spring]
Luk. 1. 78. or Sun-rising, or Branch, mar.
Day-star]
2 Pet. 1. 19. Christ, Rev. 2. 28. & 22. 16. Annot.
Day star]
;;See Star.
This day]
;;Every day, or the day present which now is. Mar. 6. 11. Give us this day. Teach us, from day to day to depend upon God for things of this life.
;;3. Shortly, ere it be long. Josh. 23. 14. This day I enter the way of all earth.
This day]
;;The … and opportunity, appointed of God for doing something, Heb. 4. 7.
;;2. All that time in which God made his Son known by his wonderful works. Heb. 1. 5.
To day]
;;The whole season of our calling to God, even all the time of this life, wherein God, offereth us grace, and calleth us to him. Psal. 95. 7. To day if you will bear his voice. By this men are warned to hear the Word with constancy all their life long, because it is full day so long as they live here.
To day]
Heb. 13. 8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. The same, that is, unchangeable in his Essence, promises and doctrine. Annot.
Yesterday, pointeth out the time past of the Old Testament. To …, the time present, wherein the Apostles wrote; for …, the future time of eternity. So that there can be no variation of the Faith and Doctrine of Jesus Christ, because the perpetual foundation of the Church is one and the same, besides which no other can be put, even Jesus Christ, who was before he was manifested in the flesh; was the Doctor of the Church under the Old Testament, and Saviour from the very beginning, was from eternity the same. Pareus.
Day of visitation]
;;The time wherein God of his great mercy shall convert a sinner. 1 Pet. 2. 12. May glorifie God in the day of visitation. Luk. 19. 44.
Dayes]
;;The short time of mans life, who is a creature (as it were) of a dayes continuance. Psal. 90. 9. Our dayes are spent in thine anger. Gen. 47. 9. It signifieth, Years, Gen. 25. 1.
;;2. The time and space wherein any thing continueth. Psal. 90. 10, 12, & 16. Comfort us according to the dayes wherein thou afflicted us.
;;3. Events good or evil, estates, calamities that at any time befal men, Psal. 37. 18. Psal. 31. 15. Psal. 119. 84. Isa. 7. 17. In this place of Isa. the word Dayes signifieth the state of time, and thereby the unhappy state or miseries of times, by a Metonymy of the Subject, and Synecdoche.
Dayes]
Heb. 7. 3. Having neither beginning of dayes, &c. So described, because neither his father, mother, descent, …, or death are registred; in whose omission he was made a type both of the eternity of Christs person and of his Priesthood; not that our Saviour was without Father, &c. for thefe we finde recorded; but because that which was chiefly intended by the description of Melchisedec, doth most absolutely and perfectly agree unto Christ, and that was the eternity of his Person, and of his Priesthood. Annot.
Heb. 13. 10. Few dayes, for a short time, that is, in the dayes or time of our childhood. Annot.
Heb. 5. 7. In the dayes of his …, that is, of his humiliation, while he was subject to our common, humane, yet blameless infirmities. Annot.
Dayes]
;;A certain compasse and space of time, appointed of God for certain purposes. Rev. 10. 7. In the dayes of the voice of the seventh Angel.
Ancient of dayes]
;;The eternal God, who hath neither beginning of dayes, nor end of years. Dan. 7. 19. The ancient of dayes. This is a poor ground whereon to build their … offered to God, in setting him out by the picture of a gray headed man, as if he could wax old, with whom a thousand years is as one day.
To come into dayes]
;;To grow in years, or to be aged. Gen. 24. 1. & 18. 11. The like phrase the Evangelist useth of some gone forward in dayes for very old, Luk. 1. 7, 8.
At the end of dayes]
;;At the end of the year, Gen. 41. 3. A full year of dayes, Gen 41. 1. 2 Sam. 14. 28. Because of certain dayes that begin the year, besides the moneths and dayes are often used for years, Levit. 25. 29.
… dayes]
;;Times full of sins, and troubles, or troublesome and sinful times. Eph. 5. 16. For the dayes are evill, Gen. 47. 6.
;;Dayes be called evill, not effectively, because they make men evill; nor essentially, as if a day in its own nature were evill; but accidentally, in regard of the evill actions and events which do happen to us in the day: In which sense Christ speaks, Mat. 6. 34. Sufficient for the day is the evill thereos, viz. the affliction, grief, and hurts that every day brings with it.
Few dayes]
Job 14. 1. Heb. short of dayes, marg.
Fulness of dayes]
;;Not only long life and great age: but a willingness to … without long desiring life on earth. Gen. 25. 8.
Good dayes]
;;A blessed and happy life, wherein many good things befal us, 1 Pet. 3. 10. If any man love to see good dayes. Psal. 34. 12.
;;Of these there are four sorts.;;
;;1. The time or day of natural life.;;
;;2. Of … spiritual life, which is blessed? without with temporal, and feasted within with spiritual goodness, Psal. 112. 1, &c. & 144. 9, &c. Eccl. 1. 2. & 2. 12, 13.;;
;;3. Of death to the godly. Eccles. 7. 2. Revel. 14. 13.;;
;;4. Of judgement, Luk. 6. 23.;;
Last dayes, or latter dayes and times]
;;At length, a long while after, or hereafter in time to come, Gen. 49. 1. Gather them that I may tell them what is to come in the last dayes, viz. after they shall enter into Canaan, some good time hence, Deut. 4. 30. Also, Jer. 23. 20. In the last dayes, viz. when the time of your Captivity in Babylon, shall have an end, Jer. 30. 24.
;;2. The times next going before the final and general judgement, 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2 Tim. 3. 1. & 2 Pet. 3. 3.
;;3. The whole time wherein the Gospel is preached, to wit, between the first and second coming of Christ, called by Paul, Fulness of time, as in Isa. 2. 12. Mic. 4. 1, 2. Jer. 48. & 49. Ezek. 38. Hos. 3. 5. Joel 2. 28, 29. Act. 2. 17. Heb. 1. 2. 2 Joh. 2. 18. 1. Cor. 10, 11. The reason why the times between Christs first and second coming are called last dayes, is, because in these dayes all figures, types, prophesies, were to be fulfilled.
;;Secondly, because the form of the Church constituted by Christ and his Apostles, was not to be any more changed, as it had been till the flood.
;;2. In the vocation of ….
;;3. In the deliverance out of Aegypt.
;;4. In the return out of Babylon, &c.
Many dayes]
1 King. 17. 15. or, a full year, marg.
Ten dayes]
;;A small and short space of time (as it were) for ten dayes long. Rev. 2. 10. Ye shall have tribulation ten days, that is, a few dayes. A definite and certain number, put for an indefinite and uncertain.
Or, as others, ten years; either in Dioclesians time, as some think, or in Trajans, as others. Annot.
Three dayes and an half]
Rev. 11. 9. Three years and an half. This must be understood of divers persons slain in this last war in that space. Or, if it be taken of the same bodies, it must be understood literally, for three natural dayes and an half; for they would stink, or berotted away, before three years and an half be ended. Annot.
The time here is computed, not of the killing of the Witnesses, but wherein they lay dead and without life, now after they were slain. But how long the war it self shall last, and how long time shall be given for the killing of the Prophets, nothing but the fulfilling of the Prophesie will teach. Mede.
Pareus assents unto their opinion, who hereby indefinitely understand a short time, wherein the contumely of the Martyrs and triumph of the enemies shall endure.
Three dayes and three nights]
;;Not three full or whole dayes and nights; for it is … by the Evangelists that it was not so: but a part is here used for the whole natural day, which the Jews began at evening, and the nigt being joyned as an appendix to the day; so as the first day on which Christ was crucified, must be reckoned with the precedent night, and to the last night, must be added the subsequent day, Mat. 12. 40.
A thousand, two hundred and threescore dayes]
Rev. 11. 3. So long as Antichrists reign and persecution lasteth, some shall preach Gods truth. And their prophesying is reckoned by dayes, not by years, because it is a work of every day, and of continual labour. Annot.
That there is a certain time set, and determined upon the Church of God in the new Testament, how long she shall be subject and exposed to persecution, and when she shall be delivered from it, is expressed in Dan. 7. 25. and 12. 7. Rev. 12. 14. & 11. 3. & 11. 2. & 13. 5. where the three sorts of numbers or times A time, times, and half a times: One thousand two hundred sixty dayes: and forty two moneths; are of one and the same kind, and correspondent one to another. For none would be able to understand what a time, times, and half a time mean, which are determined for the fourth Beast, Dan. 7. 25. for the Wonders, Dan. 12. 7. and for the Woman in the Wilderness, Rev. 12. 14. unless it had been said also of the Woman, that she shall be nourished there One thousand two hundred sixty dayes, which doth explane the former, so that the Womans, time, times, and half a time, are equivalent to One thousand two hundred sixty dayes, Likewise because the time, times, and half a time of the Beast mentioned in the Prophet Daniel, are declared by forty two moneths, Rev. 13. 5. it doth of necessity follow, that the forty two moneths, are equivalent to One thousand two hundred sixty dayes, which maketh up the account, thirty dayes being … for a monethmonth, as it is usuall among the Hebrews. And those One thousand two hundred sixty dayes, do signifie, One thousand two hundred sixty years. Here are not meant natural dayes, but prophetical dayes, or so many years, as in Dan. 9. 24. in the 70 weeks, every day signifieth a year, which make up 490 years. And those times, moneths and dayes, as they do comprehend times and years of one sort, so they begin together, and end together. And for that they expire together with the One thousand two hundred and ninty years mentioned Dan. 12. 11. which do begin with the year of our Lord Three hundred sixty three, or Three hundred sixty five, when the terrible devastation and destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, under the Roman Emperour … the Apostare happened, those One thousand two hundred sixty years, must for the space of thirty years, be protracted, and begin latter, and at least, with the year of our Lord Three hundred ninety five, all which expire together with the One thousand six hundred fifty and fift year since the birth of Christ, when also do expire the Six thousand years since the Creation of the world. Clavis Apocal, pag. 3, 4, &c. who handleth the same at large. See Napier, Propos. 1. & 15.
1290 Dayes]
;;Three years seven moneths and thirteen dayes, when Religion restored to the Jews by Judas …, it should be ratified by the publick Edict of Antiochus. Dān. 12. 11. There shall be a thousand two hundred ninty dayes. See 1 Mac. 11. 33. But the condition of the afflicted Jews, is in vers. 12. promised to be yet more happy after 45 dayes, when their freedome from tyranny should come, 2 Mac. 6. 16.
Dayes-man]
Job 9. 33. or Umpire, Heb. one that should argue, or reprove. So the word is used, Psal. 105. 14. and so God did to Laban, Gen. 31. 24, 29, 42. One that might blame us, if we wronged one another in pleading, and might hear us argue the case with patience, and afterwards reprove or passe sentence against him that did the wrong. Annot.
Dayly]
Psal. 86. 3. or, All the day, marg. Isa. 58. …. Heb. day day, that is, day by day, or day after day, as morning morning, ch. 28. 19. Annot. Luk. 9. 23. Alwayes, continually.
Dayly]
put for every day, Exod. 5. 19. Neh. 5. 18. Meet and necessary, Mat. 6. 11. Upon every occasion, Isa. 58. 2. Continually, 2 Cor. 11. 28. Alwayes, Prov. 8. 30. from day today, Jer. 7. 25. or day by day, 1 King. 18. 36. Frequent and usual, Act. 6. 1.
Dayly bread]
;;That which is sufficient and necessary for our nature, or bread sufficient for every day, Matth. 6. 11. The Syriack reads it (Bread of our necessity) that is, meet and necessary food. The Papists do erre, when they expound this of the Sacrament of the Altar.
Our dayly bread, Mat. 6. 11. The word foreign is capable of a double origination.
1. From the word foreign, the day approaching; whether that be now the instant day, or else the morrow, that is (in the Scripture serse, of the Heb. foreign) the future, the remainder of our lives, how long or how short soever. If it be derived from hence, then the foreign will denote as much as shall be …, or proportionable for the future or remainder of our lives, which we pray that we may receive this day; i. e. as St. Luke interprets it, day by day.
2. From foreign, that which is agreeable for my beeing, or …, or condition in the world, which Solomon cals sood convenient for him; and so in either …, (but the first is more according to the … of derivations) that which is sufficient and agreable for the remainder of our lives; the daily sustenance and necessaries of our bodies, and especially of our souls. Dr. Ham. Annot. f.
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Deaton]
;;A Steward of the Church treasure, being appointed to look unto the poor, and to minister unto every one of them as he had need, 1 Tim. 3. 8. Phil. 1. 1. To the Bishops and to the Deacons. Of their Office and Election, read Act. 6. 1, 2, &c. Of their several kindes, see Rom. 12. 8.
It is a title of Office, Service, or Administration, given sometimes to Christ, Rom. 15. 8. Sometime to Magistrates, Rom. 13. 4. Yea, sometimes to Women, Rom. 16. 1. 1 Tim. 5. 9. Sometimes to a special calling, or sort of Church officers, Phil. 1. 1. 1 Tim. 3. 8, 12. Stewards of the Church-treasure, and those which took care for the poor, Act. 6. 2, 5. Sometimes to the Ministers of the Gospel, 1 Cot. 3. 5. Both odinary and extraordinary, Col. 1. 23, 25. 2 Cor. 3. 6. 1 Tim. 4. 6. Act. 1. 15. 17. Col. 1. 7. Sometime to every Worshiper of Christ, Joh. 12. 26. Leigh Crit. Sac.