A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part EM
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To embalm]
;;To season a dead body with Spices, to preserve it from savouring, Gen. 50. 2. These spices were the fruits of certain hearbs and trees, pleasant in savour and taste, as Ginger, Pepper, Nutmegs. The use of this Embalming was Civil, for honours sake, physical, against putrefaction; Mystical, to be a token of the incorruption to come in heaven.
See ….
Emboldened]
1 Cor. 8. 10. Gr. edified, marg. … emboldeneth thee? Job 16. 3. What substantial and sure grounds hast thou, or solid reason to confirm what thou …? Sure none at all. Annot.
To embrace]
;;To comfort and uphold (as it were) being received into ones hands for that purpose, Cant. 2. 6. His right hand to … me.
These his imbraces spoken of here, are testimonies both of love and power; not so much witnessing the kindeness, as the might of Christ who is able to preserve such lame criples as we are from falling, and likewise to lift us up again, when faln never so low, and to restore us to a better strength again, … only (if any be) is the reason that his people shall not be finally and utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth them, Psal. 37. 24. nay incircleth and … them with his hand, with his right hand. Annot. Doth embrace me, … let embrace me, or will … me. It is a speech of faith, or prayer concerning the fruition of Christs love and graces. This commendeth the love and graces. This commendeth the love of Christ that leaves not his Church in her sickness, sins, and infirmities, but cometh to her, comforteth and sustaineth her with his own hands, &c. It setteth forth also the Churches faith and thankfulness, which seeth Christ … in his Doctrine and ordinances, and his Ministry, as if he were crucified before her, Gal. 3. 1. and rejoyceth before others for his love and help, 2 Cor. 1. 3, 4, 5, &c. ….
… To imbrace.
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A precious stone, in greenness exceeding the green …, very bright, wherein (being polished) one may … himself as in a glasse; which being hanged about the neck, is good against the salling sickness, and is both restorative for the memory, and comfortable to the sight. Hereof read Exod. 28. 18. & 39. 11. Ezek. 28. 12. Rev. 4. 3. & 21. 19.
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Rev. 4. 3. A precious stone of a deep green colour: the fourth both in the High Priests brest plate, Exod. 28. 18. and in the foundation of the celestial Jerusalem, chap. 21. 19. Annot.
Emerod]
A disease of bloud (wherewith the Lord plagued the Philistines) issuing out of the heads of veins in the …, 1 Sam. 5. 6, 9. Put also for the images representing …, 1 Sam. 6. 5, 17.
Emims]
Fears, or sea ful; or, the Isle of waters. A people whom Chedorlaomer smore, Gen. 14. 5. Giants great and tall, Deut. 2. 10. In comparison of whom others were termed Grasse-hoppers, Numb. 13. 33.
Eminent place]
Ezek. 16. 24. … Brothelhouse, marg. Ezek. 17. 22. foreign, an heap. And I will plant it upon an high mountain, and eminent; that is, God would set this King upon his holy hill of Sion, Psal. 2. 6. and over his Church. Annot.
Emmaus]
Fearing …, or abiect people. A village, Luk. 24. 13. It … to be derived of foreign which signifieth a castle or bulwark, of the root foreign in the beginning being heemantick.
Emor]
An asse. The Father of Sichem, Act. 7. 16. Or, being originally Hebrew foreign, it's derived of the root foreign, to be troubled, to be all miry or dirty.
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A …. The Son of Canaan, Gen. 10, 16.
Empire]
Kingdom, Dominion, Est. 1. 20.
Employ]
Deut. 20. 19. Heb. to go from before thee, mar. 1 Chr. 9. 33. They were …, Heb. upon them, mar. Ezr. 10. 15. Heb stood, marg.
Employment]
Ezek. 39. 14. Men of continual imployment, Heb. men of continuance. Men of publick employment for the burying of the dead. Annot.
Empty]
;;Void, or one which hath nothing that good is. Luk. 1. 53. The … he will send empty away.
It's also put for poor, Ruth 1. 21. Comfortless, Job 22. 9. Spoiled and desolate, Isa. 24. 1. Fruitless, Hos. 10. 1. Without reward for labour, Gen. 31. 42. Without an offering, Exod. 23. 15. Without water or any thing else in them, Judg. 7. 16. Without something, Ruth 3. 17.
Empty]
1 Sam. 20. 18. Heb. missed, marg. Neh. 5. 13. Heb. void, marg.
Empty]
To pour out, Gen. 24. 20. To prepare, by removing all things out of sight, Lev. 14. 36. Aynsw. Isa. 19. 6. Shall be emptyed, or wasted, or …, or exhausted. Annot.
Jer. 48. 11. Hath not been emptyed from vessell to vessell, &c. … hath not been much disturbed in his Land, or removed out of it, and hurryed from place to place as Israel hath been. Annot.
It's spoken of brooks of defence, Isa. 19. 6. a Chest, 2 Chron. 24. 11. Clouds, Eccl. 11. 3. Golden oyl, Zech. 4. 12. a House, Lev. 14. 36. …, Isa. 24. 3. Jer. 51. 2. Pitcher, Jer. 24. 20. Sacks, Gen. 42. 35. Vessels, Jer. 48. 12. Hab. 1. 17.
Emptyers]
The Assyrians, Nah. 2. 2.
Emptyness]
Isa. 34. 11. … and emptiness. The words are the same, used of that confused and formless shape of the lower part of the world, in its first production, Gen. 1. 2. See chap. 34. 10. Jerem. 4. 23. Annot.
Emulation]
;;A strife who should go before other in receiving favours and honours. Gal. 5. 20. Debate, …. Here it is taken in ill part. There is an example of it in Mar. 9. 33.
;;2. A strife between two or more persons, who should go before and excell other in doing good. An example hereof we have in Rom. 11. 14.