A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part DE · Entry 57 – Entry 119
Deceitfully]
Gen. 34. 13. With deceit. Aynsw.
Exod. 8. 29. Deal deceitfully any more, any more deceive, Aynsw.
Hitherto he had played the Hypocrite, whose manner is (in distress) to speak fair, and pretend humility, but no sooner is the plague taken off, but Hypocrites return to their wickedness again. See Psal. 78. 34, 36, 37. Dealt deceitfully with her, or unfaithfully transgressed, and treacherously, failing of that which was expected at his hands. The Chald. translateth, he hath ruled over her. Aynsw.
Lev. 6. 4. Fraudulently, by unlawful and unjust means. Job 6. 15. Perfideously, trecherously. So the word is used, Isa. 21. 2. Jer. 3. 20. foreign, a garment, is of the same root, because our first parents had no garments, till they delt perfideously with God. Their first garments were a cover, and a sign thereof. Annot.
Job 13. 7. And talk deceitfully for him. The word signifies literally, to shoot, or cast down, as Exod. 15. 1. Psal. 78. 9, 57. and metaphorically, to deceive, as Gen. 29. 25. For they that are cast down by deceit, are shot at with calumnies, and cast down from their hope. Annot. Psal. 24. 4. To deceit. Aynsw.
Psal. 52. 2. Working deceitfully, or doing deceit; that is, as a Razor, which in stead of cutting the hair, cutteth the throat. Or it may be referred to the man, O doer of deceit, as the Greek saith, thou hast done deceit. …. Jer. 48. 10. negligently, or …. Aynsw.
2 Cor. 4. 2. using deceit. They handle the word deceitfully, who either corrupt it, by mingling false doctrine or humane traditions with it, or … which preach the pure and sincere truth, but not sincerely, seeking by the preaching thereof their own glory or gain, as did the false Apostles, Phil. 2. 15, 16. Annot.
Deceitfulness]
Fraud, deceit, legerdemain, foreign, of … privat. & foreign, a path. A drawing out of the way.
It's spoken of Riches, Mar. 13. 22. Mark 4. 19. and lusts, Heb. 3. 13. and is rendred in Col. 2. 8. deceit, in 2 Thess. 2. 10. deceivableness, in … Pet. 2. 13. deceivings.
Deceitfulness of sin]
;;The guilful craftiness of sin, entrapping us by fair flattering shews, and sundry wily sleights, Rom. 7. 11. Heb. 3. 13. Lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. So Eph. 4. 22. Deceitful lusts; because sinful lusts do deceive natural men with shews and false appearances.
;;Sin, is a deceitful thing, or ful of deceit and craft, for sin never appears in her own countenance.
Deceiveableness]
2 Thess. 2. 10. It's all one with …, the original word being the same.
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To delude, Gen. 31. 7. Deceitfully to oppress, or defraud, by cavillation, calumniation, faise accusation, or other like unjust means, Levit. 6. 2. Aynsw.
To entice, or draw away by riches, pleasures, or false perswasions (of which Job 31. 27.) Deut. 11. 16. Aynsworth.
To beguil, 1 Sam. 19. 17. To fain ones self to be another then he is, 1 Sam. 28. 12. To circumvent, deceive with fair words, or under a fair …, 2 Sam. 3. 25. To erre or go out of the right way.
Metaphorically, to sin, or go out of Gods way, as Psal. 119. 176. To be misled by others, Job 15. 31. Annot. To allure, Job 31. 9. For Strumpets deceive by allurements, Prov. 7. 13, 14. Annot.
To deceive]
;;To lead into error, by making men believe they see true miracles, and signes, when they see only a shew and false appearance; or by some signes which be not fained and false, to establish mens minds in false Doctrine and Idolatry; therefore called by the Apostle, 2 Thess. 2. 9. Lying …. Such are all the wonders done in Popery. Rev. 13. 14. And deceived them that dwelt on the earth, by signe, and wonders, which were permitted him to do.
Rom. 16. 18. Fair speaches deceive the hearts of the simple. The word foreign, signifieth such a deceit which a false Thief useth to a Traveller, offering himself a guide to direct him a better way to his journeys end, and so leading him to some dismal place, that he may rob him. Leigh C. S.) To draw from the common and beaten way, as if one were not in the right way, Eph. 5. 6. (the original is foreign. Leigh C. S.)
Deceive not with thy lips, Prov. 24. 28. or, rather (with Mercer, and others) Intice not with thy lips; that is, neither be thou thy self, nor suborn any other to be a false witness, which many will do, when themselves are loath to appear. Some Rabbins derive the Original word from foreign, and so the sense will be, Bruise not thy neighbour with thy lips, by bearing false witness against him. Annot.
To deceive no more]
;;Not to able to seduce and mislead men so strongly and openly as had been suffered Satan to do, by that we read, ch. 12. But now being fast chained up, and mightily by the power of Christ restrained, he had no might for a thousand years so to prevail. Rev. 20. 3. He should deceive the people no more.
A deceived heart; Isa. 44. 20. or, a deluded heart, as Judg. 16. 10, 13. Job 17. 3. Annot.
Greatly deceived, Jer. 4. 10. or much deceived, Heb. deceiving deceived. Some, suffered them to be deceived, as Isa. 63. 13. Ezek. 14. 9. by giving them up, and leaving them to their false Prophets delusions. Others, thou hast shewed this people to be greatly deceived: but they may well be read by way of Interrogation, Hast thou indeed thus deceived this people? Annot. Jer. 5. 9. Mock, and delude, or beguil. Annot. Jer. 20. 7. The text may well be rendred, O Lord, thou perswadest me, and I was perswaded, to wit, by thee; (the word in his first notion signifieth to perswade, in generall, and simply, and by perswasion (as it is opposed to a violent impulsion) to induce and allure unto the doing of ought good or evill, without any special connotation of fraud or guil, as Prov. 25. 15. and is attributed to God himself, by Noah, Gen. 9. 27. in allusion to Japhets name; and by God himself used of himself, Hos. 2. 14.) Thou didst perswade me to undertake this Prophetical employmet, when I was of my self nothing forward, but averse rather thereunto, and desired to be excused from being ingaged therein, chap. 1. 6. Annot. To fail one, Lam. 1. 19. Annot.
Ezek. 14. 9. I the Lord have deceived that Prophet, 1 King. 22. 23. 2 Thess. 2. 11, 12. …. 1. 24. He deceives him by suffering him to be deceived by their rewards, as Judges are sometimes by bribes, and birds and fishes by baits; by withdrawing also his spirit, and restraining grace from him, and by ordering wisely and justly such occasions and occurrences as work upon his corruption. Annot. Zech. 13. 4. Heb. to lye. By their false prophesies, or by … to gain an opinion of holiness to themselves from their rough garments, or to deceive the people with an opinion of holiness in the garment it self, both which Popish Monks and Fryers did by their Cowls and Fryery weeds. Annot.
… To seduce, or cause to erre, Mat. 24. 4, 5. Tit. 3. 3. It is a … borrowed from Travellers that are in a wrong way, and that go by guesse, who are out of the way, (wander after the manner of wandring stars) and will not be called in. Leigh C. S.
Not deceived]
;;Not immediately seduced by the Devil as Eve was; she was also in the transgression first; for Adam transgressed but after Eve, and by her suggestion, 1 Tim. 2. 14. They erre which extenuate or excuse Adam by his conjugal benevolence to his Wife, it is against, Gen. 3. 17.
Deceiveth them that dwell on the earth]
Rev. 13. 14. All is set … in the present tense. He exerciseth, doth …, deceiveth, either because … now saw some such thing in the vision, or else because it would be done as … as if the … were then doing it. Annot.
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Gen. 27. 12. As a deceiver, or as one that … to …. The Gr. translateth it a despiser, the Chal. a mocker; or, we may English it, a very deceiver, for in the Heb. as is often a sure …, Neh. 7. 2. and so the … answereth thereunto, Joh. 1. 14. Aynsw. Mat. 27. 63. foreign, a notable Cousener, Impostor, seduced, and seducing others. See Leigh C. S. Such a one our Saviour was …, but falsly; such the Apostles also, 2 Cor. 6. 8. Others …, that dealt fraudulently and false-heartedly with God, Mal. 1. 14. Such also as are mentioned, Tit. 1. 10. 2 …. 7.
…, and being deceived]
2 Tim. 3. 13. using all … and diligence to … men from the right way of salvation;. or … themselves being in the wrong way. D. ….
Deceiving others by their sophismes and fair shews of holiness, and being deceived by Satan. ….
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2 Pet. 2. 13. Gr. apalais, i. e. deceitful seductions. D. Annot.
To sport with their own deceivings]
;;To please themselves, with mocking the Church of God, and deceiving the faithful, into whose publick meetings they crouded themselves as true members of Christ, being indeed spots and blors, 2 Pet. 2. 13. Jude v. 12.
Decent]
;;That which of its own nature brings some dignity and comeliness to divine actions, as a Table and a Table-cloth at the Communion, a Pulpit and Pulpit-cloth to a Sermon.
;;See Comliness. 1 Cor. 14. 40.
Decently]
1 Cor. 14. 40. foreign, honestly, as the … is rendred, Rom. 13. 13. & 1 Thess. 4. 12. In a good …, mannerly, …, orderly, …, …. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Decide]
1 King. 20. 40. To determine, conclude.
Decision]
… 3. 14. or …, or …, for so the word is used, Isa. 28. 27. & 41. 15. naming the place so from the event, alluding to the Harvest, vers. 13. and haply to the Valley of …, where in time past he threshed the Moabites and …. Annot.
Deck]
To gild, Rev. 17. 4. marg. Beautifie, Isa. 60. 13. Garnish, Mat. 12. 44. Adorn, Luk. 21. 5. Spoken of the prosperous estate of Jerusalem through Gods blessing, Ezek. 16. 11, 13. Of the high places which the people idolatrously decked, Ezek. 16. 16. Of the Bridegroom, Isa. 61. 10. Of the Idolaters bed, Prov. 7. 16. Of Idolaters. Ezek. 23. 40. Hos. 2. 13. Of God, who decketh himself with …, and excellency, &c. … 40. 10.
… with gold, &c.]
Gr. gilded. It may set out the stately worship of the Papists, their costly images, altars, copes, pales or stately palaces. Annot.
… declare]
;;To make known things which before were unknown to us. Joh. 17. 26. I have declared thy name to them.
;;2. To cause something which was but meanly and weakly known, to be better and more clearly known to us. 1 Cor. 15. 1. I declare to you the Gospel. Joh. 17. 26. And I will declare it, viz. more and more reveal, and manifest it more effectually and fully, that their faith in me, which is little and weak, may grow till it be great and strong.
;;To declare sin, is to glory in it without shame, as the Sodomites did, Isa. 3. 9.
Spoken of God, Isa. 48. 3. Christ, Psal. 2. 3. The heavens, Psal. 19. 1. The fishes of the sea, Job 12. 8. The works of God, Psal. 75. 1. Good men, Psal. 119. 13. Bad men, Isa. 3. 9. signifying to Tell, Shew, Publish, Manifest, Make known, &c. As in the places alledged, and sundry others may appear.
Declare]
Job 28. 27. or Number, marg.
Declaration]
Est. 10. 2. Shewing, setting forth.
Decline]
put for, Bending to a side, Exod. 23. 2. To turn back, Psal. 44. 18. To go down, Psal. 102. 11. & 109. 23.
Decline]
To turn aside …, Deut. 17. 11. Aynsw. To …, Psal. 44. 18. Aynsw. To stretch out, Psal. 102. 11. Aynsw. To go aside to the right hand, or the left, in excesse or defect, Job 23. 11. Annot.
Decrease]
To be going, or abate, Gen. 8. 5. To diminish, Psal. 107. 38. To be obscured as a star at the rising of the Sun. …. 3. 30. Annot.
Decree]
;;Prescript, Law, or Statute, and usually denoteth the rules and ordinances about Gods worship, as the Decree of the Passeover. Exod. 12. 24, 43. The Decree of dressing the Lambs, Exod. 27. 21. Of the Priests office and garments. Exod. 29. 9. Of their washing. Exod. 30. 21. Of the Sacrifices, Lev. 3. 17. & 6. 18. 22. So may it be taken, Psal. 2. 6. I will declare the Decree, &c. for the rule of serving God fulfilled of Christians by faith and obedience to his Gospel, when all legal Ordinances had an end.
Decree]
;;Gods purpose and determination concerning all persons and things. This is his general …: See counsell. Of which Decree, Election is part, which hath in it two things, soreknowledge, or purpose or good …, whereby God knoweth some as his own: Secondly, predestination whereby he hath fore-ordained them to be conformed to his Son in grace and glory, Rom. 8. 29. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Eph. 1. 4.
;;2. His particular purpose of sending some special blessing or punishment. Zeph. 2. 2. Before the decree come sorth. This is a special Decree.
;;3. Determination of the Church, touching things to be done, or not to be done. Act. 16. 4. And they dilivered them the Decrees to …. These be Ecclesiastical Decrees.
;;4. Purposes and thoughts of Princes, published unto their people, touching matters of war and peace. Isa. 8. 10. Pronounce a Decree. These be Civil Decrees.
;;5. Statutes and Ordinances for the administring of justice between man and man. Prov. 31. 5. Lest he drink and forget the Decree.
Spoken of God touching Christ, Psal. 2. 7. The rain, Job 28. 26. The heavens of heavens, &c. Psal. 148. 6. The sea, Prov. 8. 29. Jer. 5. 22. The punishing of the ungodly, Zeph. 2. 2.
Man, …, in respect of all, 2 Chron. 30. 5. Jonah 3. 7. Particular, in respect of some, being either lawful, and that Civil, Luk. 2. 1. Which must be just, Prov. 8. 15. Ecclesiastical, Act. 16. 4. Religious, … to the worship and service of God, though published by Heathen, Ezr. 6. 3, 4, 5, 8. & 7. 13. Est. 8. 14. Dan. 3. 29. & 6. 26. Jonah 3. 7. Or unlawful, being unjust, Isa. 10. 1. Est. 3. 15. Hasty, Dan. 2. 15. Idolatrous, 2 King. 17. 8. Dan. 3. 10.
Decree]
Dan. 6. 7. or Interdict, marg.
Decree]
To ordain, conclude, determine, Est. 2. 1. To resolve, Job 22. 28.
That Decree, Isa. 10. 1. or draw up; for the word signifies properly to pourtray, Ezek. 4. 1. or paint, ch. 23. 4. or engrave, ch. 22. 16. or write, ch. 30. 8. or delineate, circumscribe, as with a compasse, set or limit out as by line and level, Prov. 8. 27, 29. Hence it is translated to matter of Judicature, …. 15. And some translate it here prescribe, because Judiciary Sentences are not only wont to be drawn up, and described, or engrossed, but to prescribe also what men are to do, or to endure; and circumscribe them, or keep them within compass. Annot.
Decreed]
Ibid. 22. Heb. decided, determined, 1 King. 20. 40. or; precisely … out, Job 14. 8. as infallibly, and unfailably, or irrecoverably decreed; so exactly limited how far forth it shall proceed. So Dan. 11. 36. Annot.
Dedan]
The beloved of those. The Son of Raamah, Gen. 10. 7. The Son of …, Gen. 25. 3. The name of a place, Jer. 49. 8. As also Dedanim of the same signification, Isa. 21. 13.
Dedicate]
Deut. 20. 5. or initiate, that is, begin to take possession of, and to use it; which was wont to be done with solemnity, seasting, and singing praise to God, as the Title to Psalm 30. sheweth, concerning Davids house, Aynsw.
To consecrate, 2 Sam. 8. 11. To purifie, Heb. 9. 18. marg.
2 King. 12. 4. Dedicated things, or holy things, Heb. holinesses, marg. Ezek. 44. 29. or devoted, marg.
Dedicated]
Heb. 9. 18. Neither the first Testament was dedicated, or purified, that is, ratified or confirmed. Annot.
Dedication]
Lawful, being both Civil, as of David's house, Psal. 30. the title. The wall of Jerusalem, Neh. 12. 27. A new house, Deut. 20. 5. and religious, as of the Altar, Numb. 7. 88. The Temple, 1 King. 8. 63. Ezr. 6. 16. Unlawful and irreligious, Judg. 17. 3. Dan. 3. 2.
Dedication]
Or Initiation, consecration; called in Heb. Chanuccah; which when it is spoken of Men, meaneth the …, initiation, information, and training up to any new thing, which they were not accustomed to before. When of other thints, (as of Houses, before they dwelt in them, Deut. 20. 5. the House of the Lord, 1 King. 8. 63. The Altar, Numb. 7. 20. Things set apart for holy uses, 1 King. 15. 15. 2 Chr. 15. 18. 2 King. 12. 18. Ezek. 44. 29.) it meaneth the first using of them, or dedication and consecration to their first use, which was done with olemnity, 2 Chr. 7. 5, 9. Ezr. 6. 16, 17. Neh. 12. 27 — 43, &c. Aynsw. on Numb. 7. 10.
Deed]
Act, Gen. 44. 15. Work, Mat. 16. 27. Luk. 23. 41, 51. Act. 19. 18. And in many other places, Action, Matter, Business, 2 Sam. 12. 14. Retributions, Isa. 59. 18. Annot. …. 1. 25. or Doing, marg.
Good deeds, …. 13. 14. …. kindnesses, marg.
They overpasse the deeds of the wicked, Jer. 5. 28. They go beyond the very Heathen themselves in wickedness. The Hebrew is word for word, they passe by words or matters of evill, that is, evill things. When any evill either is menaced, or befalleth, them for the evill they do, they passe it, or put it by, and do the evill for all that. Others thus, they passe by evill, they escape those evill occurrents of penalty and judgement, wherewith others are surprised, as …, 73. 5. One understandeth it of persons in bad case, sad or afflicted, as the word evill is often used, Gen. 41. 4. Lev. 27. 10, 33. Prov. 15. 15. as if the meaning were, they passe by the matters, or causes of such, refusing to … with them. ….
There are deeds good, Neh. 13. 14. evill, Ezr. 9. 13.
Deem]
Act. 27. 27. To think as the word foreign is rendred, Act. …. 25. To suppose, as Act. 25. 18.
Deep]
Abyssus, put for the sea, Job 28. 14. Any great waters, Luk. 5. 4. The lowest place or bottom of the grave, Rev. 10. 7. A multitude of people, Ezek. 31. 4. A great tract of lands, Amos 7, 4.
Deep: …: put for hidden, and not easily discovered, Job 12. 22. Strongly setled, Psal. 80. 9. …, Unconceivable, Psal. 92. 5. Secret, Dan. 2. 22. Very low, Job 11. 8.
Deep things of God]
;;Things secret, hid and kept close (as it were) in the breast of God, till they be revealed to us by the Spirit and Word of God. 1 Cor. 2. 10. The Spirit searcheth the deep things of God.
Deep waters]
;;Great dangers which threaten death, like deep waters which overwhelm a man. Psal. 69. 2. I am come into the deep waters; that is, deadly dangers.
;;2. The most secret and most inward thoughts and counsels of mans heart. Prov. 20. 5. Counsell in the heart of man is like deep waters.
Deep]
Into the deep, Luk. 8. 31. That foreign should here signifie the pit of hell, the place created for the devil and his angels, wheresoever it is situate, may be guest by the nature of the word, which signifies bottomless, and from the use of it in some other places of the New Testament, as Rev. 9. 1, 2. & 11. 17. & 17. 8. & 20. 1, 3. where there is mention of chains, as there is of tartarum, 2. Pet. 2. 4. And so also here the context here inclines it; for the first request of the Devil to Christ was, ver. 28. I be seech thee torment me not. And in the other Gospel, Mat. 8. 29. … thou come to torment me before my time? Expressing the Devils fear, that by this coming of Christ, he should presently be cast into his chains of hell, and confined to those torments, which he thought belonged not to him till the day of Judgement; and the next was in plain words, not to send him into hell, or the pit. Dr. Ham. Annot. d.
A night and a day I have been in the deep, 2 Cor. 11. 25. To what passage of St. Paul's story this of his being a day and a night foreign, in the deep, doth belong, cannot be shewed out of Scripture. 'Tis not altogether improbable what … saith, that in Cyzicum there is a Prison, which for the depth of it under ground, is called foreign, or the bottom of the Sea, a most noysome filthy prison. In this, as a most infamous Prison, St. Paul might well be cast, passing from Troas to that City. Idem. Annot. c.
Deeply]
Isa. 31. 6. Have deeply revolted, Heb. have … revolt, namely, by their seeking to Aegypt, and relying on an arm of flesh, vers. 1, 2. which is a revolting from God, 2 Cor. 16. 7. Jer. 17. 5. In the word of depth, some think there is an allusion to the depths of their plots and projects; and digging deep, as imagining to conceal them even from God, ch. 29. 25. It is not unlikely that the Prophet had a purpose to mind them, both of the grievousness of their defection and malignancy, and of the greatness also of the danger, that thereby they had plunged themselves into, as being sunk so deep in revolt, that unless they did rise and get up again the sooner, by speedy and hearty repentance turning unto God, from whom they had revolted, they were like suddenly to perish without hope of recovery. Annot.
Deeply corrupted themselves, Hos. 9. 9. Heb. made deep, or corrupted. So deeply rooted and drowned in the bottome and gulf of their idolatries and iniquities, that there is no hope of curing and saving them. Or wholly corrupted to the bottome, as Isa. 31. 6. Annot.
And he sighed deeply, foreign, Mark 8. 12. Being vehemently offended with their so great infidelity, he inwardly grieved. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Deepness]
Mat. 13. 5. No deepness of earth. It's all one with the former words, they had not much earth; that is, not much care to receive, not much understanding to apprehend, not much saith to believe, not much will to obey, not much love to retain it. Annot.
Deepness of riches]
;;Riches unsearchable and most profound. Rom. 11. 33. O the depth of his riches.
Defame]
Is, for the disgraceing of any, (especially Gods Ministers, …. 20. 10. 1 Cor. 4. 13.) To revile them, and say evill falsly of them, Mat. 5. 11. and to raise and bring up a false and evill report, Exod. 31. 1. Numb. 13. 32.
Defamed]
1 Cor. 4. 13. Gr. hard, or evill spoken of. Annot. Blasphemed. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Defaming]
Jer. 20. 10. or defamation, or detraction, or slander, as it is not amisse rendred, Numb. 24. 36. Psal. 31. 13. Prov. 10. 18. for the word seems properly so to signifie, to wit, a false report, tending to the discredit of the party or thing, whereof it is reported, Numb. 13. 32. & 14. 36, 37. Annot.
Defeat]
To make void, disappoint, frustrate, bring to nought, 2 Sam. 15. 34. & 17. 14.
Defence]
Reall and true, God, Psal. 59. 9. Wisdom, Eccl. 7. 12. Gods Ministers, Phil. 1. 17. and through Gods goodness strong places, Psal. 33. 16. Imaginary, or deceitfull brooks, Isa. 19. 6. Money, Eccl. 7. 12. Wealth, Prov. 18. 11. It's also put for an Apology, Act. 19. 33. & 22. 1.
Defence: Numb. 14. 9. Heb. shadow, marg. 2 Chr. 11. 5. A place of succour, or refuge, fortification, strong hold, &c. Job 22. 25. or gold, marg. Psal. 7. 10. Heb. buckler, marg. Psal. 59. 9. Heb. high place, marg. So Psal. 62. 2. marg. & 89. 18. Shield, marg. Isa. 4. 5. Heb. a covering, marg. The word here used comes from a root but once read, that signifies to cover, and by covering to protect. The word is found only in two other places, Psal. 19. 5. & Joel 2. 16. being in both used for one and the same thing, to wit, the Bridegrooms chamber, closet, or bower. A place, as of secrecy, security and safety, so of solace and delight; not unfit to represent as well the comfort and joy, as the immunity and safeguard, that Christ the Bridegroom by his gracious presence, affordeth to the Church his Spouse, Psal. 31. 20. & 84. 11. & 91. 1. Annot. Nah. 2. 5. Coverer, or covering, marg. This by most is taken to be some engine, or movable defence, made after the ancient fashion, under which the assailants drew … to the wall, &c. Annot. Act. 22. 1. Answer, (wherein one rendreth an account of what he hath said or done) as the word foreign is rendred, 1 Cor. 9. 3. 2 Tim. 4. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 15.
Defenced City]
Jer. 1. 18. Heb. for a City of defence, Psal. 108. 10. & 34. 7. that is, to be like a City strongly built, and firmly fenced, supported for the structure of it, not with timber, but with iron Columnes: and environed, not with stone, but with steel walls. Annot.
Jer. 4. 5. Let us go into the defenced Cities, for shelter and succour against the invading enemies, Heb. Cities of fortification or defence. Annot.
Defend]
Judg. 10. 1. Heb. save, or deliver, i. e. to preserve them in their peace, liberties, and the purity of Gods worship, against all that did … them. Annot. 2 Sam. 23. 12. comp. with 1 Chr. 11. 14, 27. To deliver, Psal. 5. 11. To cover, to protect, marg. Psal. 20. 1. To set on an high place, marg. Psal. 59. 1. Hebrew, To set on high, marg. Isa. 31. 5. To sence, and so to defend, by fencing a place round about, as a Vineyard, chap. 5. 2, 5. or a Garden, Cant. 4. 12. which from thence hath its name. So Psal. 34. y. & 125. 2. Zech. 2. 5. Annot. Isa. 37. 35. Heb. to shield (… thereof also cometh the word shield, used …. 33.) or …; for threof also cometh the name of a garden, as a place fenced and inclosed, Cant. 4. 4. Annot. Act. 7. 24. To keep safe, foreign.
Defer]
is, To linger, delay, tarry, prolong, put off from time to time. Lawful, Prov. 19. 11. Act. 24. 22. …, Eccl. 5. 4. It's spoken of God, who deferreth to harm us, Isa. 48. 9. is to be prayed unto not to defer to do us good, Dan. 9. 19. Hope deferred being very prejudicial, Prov. 13. 12. Love … deferring, Gen. 34. 19.
Defie]
To detest and abhor with indignation, as the Original foreign signifieth. It's taken in a good sense, Prov. 22. 14. Mic. 6. 10. 2 Sam. 23. 9. In a bad sense, 1 Sam. 17. …. Dan. 11. 30. It seemeth also to be put for curse, Numb. 23. 7. compared with Numb. 22. 6. & 12. 17.
Defie]
Numb. 13. 7. To detest with angry threats, and hateful …, as the word signifieth in Dan. 11. 30. Aynsw.
1 Sam. 17. 10. I defie the … of Israel; that is, by dating and challenging them to fight with me, … expose them to … and contempt, if not a man in their whole army can be sound that due answer my challenge. Annot. 2 Sam. 21. 21. To reproach, marg. To reproach, dare and challenge with scorn and despight. Annot.
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may be … to Man, both in regard of himself and others.
Himself, …, 1 Cor. 8. 7. Tit. 1. 15. Heb. 12. 15. Outwardly, through the plague of leprosie, Lev. 14. 46. or any other uncleanness, Lev. 5. 3. Or, by touching a dead …, Numb. 5. 2. & 9. 6. Both outwardly and inwardly, through following the abominations of the heathen, Lev. 18. 24. Seeking after Wizards, Lev. 19. 31. Blood, Isa. 59. 3. Idols, Ezek. 20. 7. & 37. 23. Unnatural uncleanness, 1 Tim. 1. 10. The … of the tongue, Jam. 3. 6.
Others, Men, Rom. 1. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 10. …, Gen. 34. 2. Deut. 24. 4. 1 Chr. 5. 1. Rev. 14. 14. Gods ordinances; as his Sabbath, Isa. 56. 6. Sanctuary, Ezek. 5. 11. His holy name, Ibid. 43. The Table of the Lord, Mal. 1. 12. The Temple, Act. 21. 28. The Creatures; as the Land, Lev. 18. 25. Bread, Ezek. 4. 13. The fruit of the vineyard, Deut. 29. 9. and so of other ….
It's put for, To profane and turn to a common and unholy use, 2 King. 23. 8. To pierce Ezek. 28. 7. Carnally to abuse a woman, Gen. 34. 5. To destroy, 1 Cor. 3. 17.
Defile]
Gen. 34. 2. Heb. to humble marg. Isa. 30. 22. To use in a disgraceful manner, as Deut. 9. 21. 2 King. 18. 4. & 23. 8, 13, 14.
Defile]
I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? Cant. 5. 3. A phrase taken from the custom of those hot countries, wherein they used to wash their feet, which being clean she was loth to rise and open the door, not being willing to take any more pains, or lose what she had taken. Such worthless excuses doth our flesh alledge; the time is unseasonable, the night is cold and damp, the weather wet, we cannot arise to entertain Christ without trouble and detriment. So Hag. 1. 2, 4. Prov. 20. 4. & 26. 3. Aynsworth.
She was loath to give ear to every call of Christ, for fear of disquieting her self, of drawing upon her dangers, troubles, fears and losses, if she should follow him in all things. O flesh and bloud how wise art thou to finde out a reason to thine own hurt, and to have some blinde excuse or other for that thou wouldst fain do? ….
Defiled]
Mar. 7. 2. or Common, marg.
Lest they should be defiled, Joh. 18. 28. Legally polluted by being present among the Heathen or Romane Souldiers, which being a Legall pollution, would make it unlawful for them to eat the Passover. Dr. Ham. Paraph.
Defiled]
;;Stained and corrupted with the filthiness of sin, Heb. 12. 15.
Defiled]
Rev. 3. 4. Which have not defiled their garments. … themselves, wickedly in their lives, as the Balaamites have done, Chap. 2. 14. Jude 23. Annot.
Rev. 14. 4. These are they which were not defiled with women. Not polluted with Popish false doctrine and Idolatry, which is spiritual fornication, 2 Cor. 12. 2. Eph. 5. 27. Ezek. 15. 16. chap. 18. 3. An allusion to the Israelites, of whom many were entised to Idolatry by the Midianitish women, but many were kept from it, Numb. 25. Others understand all this of the Waldenses, and such as served God purely in all the times of Popery, because it is said, They were not defiled. Their remainders are now sound in the visible Church. Annot.
Rev. 21. 27. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth. There shall be no soil … contagion in this great City, such as crept in before, by Antichrists subtilty. A neat City that hath no foul thing nor person in it, nor any thing to offend eye, ear, or nose. So it will be in heaven, 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Eph. 5. 5. Psal. 15. 1, 2. & 24. 3, 4. Isa. 52. 1. & 60. 21. Joel 3. 17. Zech. 14. 21. Mat. 13. 41. In the last Church on earth also, Discipline in likelihood shall be so strictly executed, that no profane persons shall be found there. Only such as are elect, as far as men can judge. Annot.
Defraud]
To oppress or over-reach one in a matter, 1 Thess. 4. 6. marg. To put beside, deprive of, or disappoint any of their right, 1 Sam. 12. 3. To keep back by fraud, Jam. 5. 4. To deny what he oweth, or to restore what he hath borrowed, or is intrusted withall, but doth deceitfully convert to his own use what belongeth to another. To retain from, or either by fraud or force to takè what's anothers, Mar. 10. 19. 1 Cor. 6. 7, 8. Not to perform ones duty, though of ability to discharge it. 1 Cor. 7. 1. To wrong, entrap, deceive, or beguile, 2 Cor. 7. 2.
Defraud not]
Mar. 10. 19. or Deprive not. Thou shalt rest contented with thine own, and not feek to increase thine own condition by the diminution of other mens. Dr. Ham. Paraph.
Degenerate]
Jer. 2. 21. The tearm used here hath in it a notion of revolting, or departing, chap. 17. 13. Annot.