A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part AF
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Afar]
This word joyned with off, is put,
1. For space between place and place, Gen. 37. 18. 1 Sam. 26. 13. Luk. 16. 23.
2. To be absent, Psal. 10. 1.
3. To estrange ones self from another, Psal. 38. 11.
4. To be strangers, none of the visible Church, Ephes. 2. 13, 17.
Heb. 11. 13. Having seen them asar off, even Gods promise touching the land of Canaan, (a type of heaven) whereof their posterity had not the possession, till above 400 years after, Gen. 15. 13.
Rev. 18. 10 Standing afar off. Though they loved her and wished her prosperity to continue, yet they durst not come near to help her, lest they should be destroyed with her by them that besieged her, who would take such as came for friends to the whore, and destroy them, as Jehu did Ahaziahs brethren, 2 King. 13. 14. Or, they were affraid of being burned, as they were, that cast the three Jews into the Furnace, Dan. 3. 22. the flame was so great. Thus the Israelites fled, when the earth swallowed Dathan … Abiram, Numb. 16. 34. Annot.
Affairs]
Matters, businesses, and things which concem one, Psal. 112. 5. Dan. 2. 49. Eph. 6. 21, 22. 2 Tim. 2. 4. Things, 1 Chr. 26. 32. marg.
Affect]
To foul, or slubber; to affect with grief, molest, trouble, or make work. To strip, or glean. To rob, or prey upon. To waste away.
Mine eye affecteth (wasteth away) my soul, Lam. 3. 51. that is, I am even consumed and wasted away; or clean worn out, and spent with weeping; or, I am so faint with continual weeping, that my soul is even gone, my spirits are clean spent. ….
They zealously affect you, Gal. 4. 17. or, are zealous over you. He compareth the false Teachers to jealous Wooers, who can by no means endure a corrival; therefore saith the Apostle, they exclude you from me, and from my doctrine of faith which I have delivered unto you, that you may be wholly theirs, and I have no part in you. …. The word hath an emphasis, and signifieth, To be earnest with … and …. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Affection]
;;1. Passions which affect the minde with some grief or pain, especially when they are strong and vehement. Rom. 7. 5. The affections of sin wrought in us. In the Original text it is read, the … of sia.
;;2. More entire feeling, and hearty love. 2 Cor. 7. 5. His inward affection is more abundant to you.
Affection: 1. Natural, Rom. 1. 31. as of Parents to children, Gen. 21. 15, 19. Grand-fathers, Gen. 48. 10. Brethren, Gen. 42. 24.
2. Pious for Religion, Ruth 1. 16.
3. Christian act, Act. 4. 32. Gal. 4. 15.
4. Heavenly, Col. 3. 2.
5. Corrupt and … Rom. 1. 36.
6. Inordinate, Col. 3. 5.
It's put for the Minde, Col. 3. 2. the Will, 1 Chr. 29. … Unnatural lusts, Rom. 1. 26. Passions, Gal. 5. 24. Inward and hearty love, 2 Cor. 7. 15.
Affectionated]
Be kindly affectionated, Rom. 12. 10. His meaning is, that we should improve the natural affection we bear towards any to a higher pitch, even to Christian charity. Annot.
Affectionately]
Being affectionately desirous of you, 1 Thess. 2. 8. With such an affection as of a parent or friend.
Affinity]
This is by marriage, 1 King. 3. 1. 2 Chr. 18. 1. which must not be with Idolaters, Ezr. 9. 14.
Affirm]
It's sometime after a bare manner, Rom. 3. 8. Sometime with confidence, Act. 12. 15. and constancy, Tit. 3. 8. It's put for to teach, 1 Tim. 1. 7. for to maintain as a truth, Act. 25. 19.
Afflict]
Cruelly to vex and oppress, Gen. 15. 13. Grievously to punish, Psal. 55. 19. To be grieved and humbled, Ezr. 8. 21. To humble, Judg. 16. 5. Ravanell. To melt, Job 6. 14. marg.
Afflicted]
Heb. 11. 37. foreign, wringed, pressed, oppressed; Afflicted in soul and body.
Affliction]
;;Any trouble, grief, or evill whatsoever, that happeneth either to soul or body, name, goods, or estate, for correction of sin, or for tryal, as it doth to the godly; or for punishment and vengeance, as to the wicked. Rom. 2. 8. …, afliction. Also ch. 5. 3.
… is the evill of punishment, and with respect unto the life to come, is put for external torments, Rom. 2. 8, 9. With relation unto this life, it's taken either more properly, or lesse properly. More properly, and that either largely for any evill of punishment; or more strictly.
1. For oppression, injury, vexation, Gen. 26. 11. Exod. 4. 31.
2. Persecution, Act. 12. 19. Mar. 4. 17. Rev. 7. 10.
3. Extraordinary calamities, Mat. 24. 21.
4. Famine, Jer. 28. 8. and property, Isa. 58. 10.
5. Sadness and grief of minde, Neh. 2. 2.
6. Marriage troubles and cares, 1 Cor. 7. 28.
Lesse properly, and so it's taken for fasting, Ezr. 9. 5. Whence these phrases, To afflict our souls, Lev. 16. 29. To afflict our selves before God, Ezr. 8. 21.
This is spoken of God afflicting Man, Numb. 11. 11.
Of Man afflicting Man, Heb. 11. 37.
Of Man afflicting himself, Isa. 58. 3.
Affliction; or, tears, Heb. eye. 2 Sam. 16. 12. marg. Iniquity, Job 5. 6. marg. Oppression, Isa. 30. 20. marg. Breach, Amos 6. 6. marg. Vanity, Heb. 3. 7. marg.
Afflictions]
Heb. 10. 32. a great fight of aflictions, (the word foreign, signifieth passions, which with great force affect the soul) or wrastlings of afflictions, whereby Satan sought to overthrow their faith. The Apostle alludes to the custom of wrastlers, who seek to trip up one another. Annot.
Afflictions of the Gospel]
;;Persecutions raised against Christians for the profession of the Gospel, 2 Tim. 1. 8.
Afford]
Render, veeld, Psal. 144. 13.
Affright]
Were affrighted, Heb. laid hold on horror, Job 18. 20. marg. The word signifies such a fright as makes a mans hair stand an end, Job 4. 15. Ezek. 27. 35. & 32. 10. The meaning is, by inversion of words, that horror hath taken hold on them, Isa. 13. 12. & 21. 3. Annot.
To be sore amazed, and astonished with fear, Mar. 16. 4. Terrified, stricken with fear, Rev. 11. 13.
Afoot]
Mar. 6. 33. Act. 10. 13. On their feet, not making use of Horses, Asses, Mules, &c.
Afore]
2 King. 20. 4. Psal. 129. 6. Before.
Aforehand]
Mar. 14. 8. Come beforehand, hath by hastening prevented.
Aforetime]
Before them, Job 17. 6. marg. Formerly, Dan. 6. 10. Joh. 9. 13.
Afraid]
of Gods presence, Gen. 3. 10. Voice, Mat. 17. 7. Anger, Deut. 9. 19. Punishments on others, 2 Sam. 6. 9. Threatnings, Jer. 36. 16. Divine visions and dreams, Dan. 4. 5. & 8. 17. Displeasure, Jonah 1. 5. Of our lives, Josh. 9. 24. Death, Jer. 26. 21. Mocking, Jer. 38. 19. Great mens countenances, Ezek. 2. 6. Evill mens malice and envy, Gen. 31. 31. Peril, Gen. 42. 28. A powerfull enemy, Exod. 14. 10. A glorious countenance, Exod. 34. 30. Ill news, 1 Sam. 28. 20. Ungodly men, 2 King. 22. 5. The majesty of a King, Neh. 2. 2. Authority, Act. 22. 29. Troubles forecast, Job 3. 25. A spirit, Mar. 6. 49. Destruction, Job 5. 21. Angels, Mat. 28. 8. At a miraculous work, Mar. 5. 15. At an heavenly light, Act. 22. 9.
To run together, Amos 3. 6. marg. Terrified by the approach of the enemy, Isa. 10. 29. Annot.
Heb. 11. 23. And they not afraid of the Kings commandement, that is, not so much as others. Annot. This is spoken comparatively, not sunply: they did not so fear the Kings commandement, that they should banish the commandement of the King of Kings out of their minde. The King said, drown the childe; God said, save the childe from drowning. Jones.
Afresh]
Heb. 6. 6. Seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God asresh. Seeing they are so spitefully set against Christ, as that they could finde in their hearts to crucifie him again, if it lay in their power. Jones.
They crucifie him asresh so much as in them lyeth: and if Christ were upon the earth again, they would be as malicious enemies unto him, as ever any were. Annot.
After]
On, Gen. 7. 10. marg. As when, Judg. 16. 22. marg. At the end, 2 Chr. 18. 2. marg.
After a godly manner; or, according to God, 1 Cor. 7. 9. marg.
Aster him, Heb. at his feet, 2 Sam. 15. 16. marg.
It's put for according, Act. 15. 1. When, Act. 5. 4. To follow, Act. 20. 30. And noteth order of time, Mat. 3. 11. In growth, Mar. 4. 28. Of thing done, Act. 13. 15. Of dignities, 1 Cor. 12. 28.
Heb. 7. 16. Who is made not aster the law of a carnal commandement. That is, not as those legal Priests were by outward purification and sanctification, consisting in outward anointings, washings, offerings, and the like, which served only for the sanctifying of the person from legall pollutions. See chap. 9. 13. Annot.
After those dayes]
;;The time of the Old Testament being fully expired, when that fulness of time promised to the Fathers was come, Heb. 10. 16. This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those dayes.
To come after one]
;;To be manifested, and to have his Ministery or Prophetical office made known in time after the baptism and doctrine of John. Mat. 3. 11. He that cometh after me. Christ was before John by his Divinity or Godhead, but he was born man, and shewed himself in his Ministery after John who was born before Jesus, and began to preach and baptize some half year or thereabout before him.
Afternoon]
Judg. 7. 8. Untill afternoon, Heb. till the day declined, marg.
Afterward]
This noteth that which succeedeth what went before; either,
1. Forthwith, Gen. 38. 30. Deut. 13. 9. Mat. 4. 2. Or,
2. Shortly upon, Exod. 11. 1. Mat. 21. 19. & 25. 11. Or,
3. Some years after, Gen. 32. 20. Act. 13. 20. Or,
4. Many years to come, Gen. 15. 14.
After thee, Deut. 24. 21. marg.