A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part EY – Part EZ
E Y.
To eye]
1 Sam. 18. 9. Saul eyed David, &c. He not only … and curiously pryed into all his actions, to observe unto what end they tended, but also did behold and censure of them with a malicious eye and aspect: the heart no otherwise so plainly discovering it self, as by the eye and countenance, Gen. 4. 5, 6. Annot.
Eye]
Referred,
;;…. to God; signifieth,
;;1. The knowledgdge which God hath of all thiug. Prov. 15. 3. His eye is in every place to behold good and evill. Psal. 11. 4. His eyes will consider, his eye-lids will try the children os men. …. Job 34. 21. Heb. 4. 13.
;;2. Gods merciful and watchful providence. Psal. 34. 15. His eye is over the righteous. Metaphor.
;;3. The object of his Providence and delight; that is, some special person greatly regarded of him. Zech. 2. 8. He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of mine eye.;;
4. His love, approbation and acceptance, Jer. 24. 6. 2 Chr. 14. 2.
5. His presence, 2 Chron. 21. 6.
6. His displeasure, Amos 9. 4.
7. Himself, or his sight. Psal. 90. 4. A thousand years in thy sight, … … … eyes; that is, before thee.
II. To Christ, Rev. 1. 14. signifieth as well that he is of most quick, sharp, and piercing sight, as that he is full of anger, wrath and judgement against his enemies; who alone furnisheth with eye-salve wherewith to … our eyes that we may see, even bestoweth upon us the spirit of … and true wisdom, which doth open and illuminate the eyes of our soul, being before utterly blinde, Rev. 3. 18.
III. To Man, considered both in general and in particular. In general; signifieth,
1. The whole man; by Synecdoche, Rev. 1. 7.
;;2. That member of the body, whose faculty it is to see light … things, and to … our way, Eccl. 1. 8.
3. The whole face or visage, Psal. 6. 7.
4. The colour or appearance, …. 11. 7. marg.
;;5. A guide to direct, Job 29. 15. I was an eye to the blinde; that is, a guide to the ignorant to shew them right and wrong.
In particular; being both external and internal.
External; as, Exod. 21. 24. Eye for eye. Whereof some are deprived, being born blinde, Joh. 9. 1, 2. as others through age, Gen. 48. 10. 1 King. 14. 4. and by Gods hand, Gen. 19. 11. 2 King. 6. 18. Act. 13. 11, Others have blemishes therein, Lev. 21. 20. Gen. 29. 17.
Internal; Conceit and opinion, Deut. 12. 8. Intentions of minde, Psal. 10. 8. Care to know, and rightly to judge, Prov. 20. 8. ;;The understanding or judgement of the minde, which is as the eye of the soul, Eph. 1. 18. An evill affection appearing and expressed by the eye, Mat. 5. 21. Job 31. 1.
It's also put for, Things most dear, Gal. 4. 14. Expectation, 1 King. 1. 20. Will and pleasure, Gen. 19. 8. Life and …, Mat. 7. 3. The effects of the Eyes are either good, as in the godly, who have a bountiful eye. Prov. 22. 9. A single eye, Mat. 6. 22. Opened eyes, Ephes. 1. 18, &c. or evill, as in the wicked termed an Evill eye, Prov. 23. 6. Lofty eyes, Prov. 30. 13. Wanton eyes, Isa. 3. 16. Closed eyes, Act. 28. 27. Darkened eyes, Rom. 11. 10. Eyes full of Adultery, 2 Pet. 2. 14, &c.
Plucking out of the eye]
;;A readyness out of entire love to part (for Paul's sake) from a thing most dear to them. Hyperbole. Gal. 4. 15. Ye would have plucked out your own eyes.
Right eye]
Zech. 11. 17. His understanding, knowledge, prudence, which he pretends to, and seems to have in the opinion of the world. Annot.
Which eye hath not …]
;;That which doth exceed all natural capacity of men; to wit, the mystery of the Gospel, Isa. 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9.
Single eye]
;;A minde enlightened unto a lively faith in Christ Jesus. Mat. 6. 22. If thine eye be single, all the body is full of light; that is, when the heart is indued with a pure and sincere faith, it enlightens and … the whole man in all Christian wayes, as a good Eye directs the whole body.
Eye-brows]
Lev. 14. 9. As when the Leper was cleansed, the hair on every part of his body was to be shaved off. So also was the hair on his Eye-browes to be shaved.
Eye lids]
Applyed,
1. To God, Psal. 11. 4. whereby his knowledge may be understood.
2. To the Morning, Job 41. 18. Whereby the day it self is to be understood. Let it never be day more, let not the night ever see the morning open her eyes. Let there be no light foregoing the Sun-rising, nor no Sun-beams to foretel the approaching of the Sun. The Eye-lids in Heb. have their name from moving, because they frequently move. The morning is compared to a man that opens his eye-lids, having been shut all night. By the Eye-lids is meant the opening of them. Annot. on Job 3. 9.
3. To an Harlot, who is cunning to entice and take with her eye-lids. Prov. 6. 25. Let her not take thee with her eyelids; that is, with her eyes, when the lids are open, for no man would be in love with the eye-lids shut. See Annot. on Job 3. 9.
4. To Man, whose eye-lids are the two coverings made for the preservation of the holes of the eye, and to further the sight. When well employed, Psal. 132. 4. Prov. 4. 25. & 6. 4. Jer. 9. 18. When evill, Prov. 30. 13.
Eyes]
;;Divine knowledge, or infinite understanding of God, Heb. 4. 13.
To darken the eyes]
;;To make dim (… the eyes of the body) but the minde, which is the eye of the soul, that they might not understand what to choose and desire for their good. Psal. 69. 22. Darken their eyes, &c. that is, deprive them of understanding and discretion, that as blinde men grope in the dark, so they may be blockish, in the noonshine and clear … of truth shining … about them; a judgement before threatned, and now inflicted upon the rebellious Jewes, for their malice against Christ and his Word; to fear all men from shutting their eyes against the manifest will and glory of Christ. Eyes and ears signifie … or presence, also audience or hearing, Gen. 23. 10, 18.
Eyes like Doves]
;;Gracious Eyes, simple and chast, such as be the … of Doves. Cant. 1. 14. Thine eyes are like the Doves.
Eyes like a flame of fire]
;;The wisdom of Christ … (like fire) into the deepest secrets and most hidden things. And his feet like Brasse, signifieth the stableness of his counsell and works, Dan. 10. 6. Rev. 1. 13, 14, 15.
His eyes like a flame of fire, Rev. 1. 14. Bright, lightsome and piercing. See Dan. 10. 6. implying his Omniscience, whereby he is able to disperse all darkness, and to pry into all the corners of mens hearts, and descry the privy plots, and contrivances of the adversaries of his Church. Prov. 15. 11. Psal. 139. 11, 12. Job 34. 21, 22. Heb. 4. 12, 13. Annot.
Eyes of a fool]
;;Rash medling and fond gazing of foolish men, after things unprofitable, and unnecessary, letting go things more needful. Prov. 17. 24. The eyes of a fool are in the corners of the world.
… of eyes before and behinde]
Rev. 4. 6. To shew the vigilant care … the Pastor. Act. 20. 26, 28. Or, his looking forward to God, sitting on the throne, and backward to his people. Hab. 2. 1, 2. Annot. Or, full of heavenly knowledge and spiritual grace, Mat. 13. 52. Annot. on vers. 8.
To have God before our …]
;;To respect God, that we may … him, and trust in him, Psal. 10.
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes]
Rev. 7. 17. See chap. 21. 4. Isa. 25. 8. He shall give them so much joy, that they shall forget all their troubles, and shall have no cause to grieve ever after. Joh. 16. 20, 22. Annot.
To open the eyes]
;;To restore the faculty of seeing, or to make them see which were born blinde, Joh. 9. 10. Mat. 20. 33. That our eyes may be opened. Or, to make such to see, as were for a time made blinde, 2 King. 6. 20.
;;2. To give use of seeing to such as have the faculty. Gen. 21. 19. … God opened her eyes that she saw the …. …. 22. 31. Or to cause one acknowledge what he saw before, Luk. 24. 3. Gen. 21. 10.
;;3. To give experimental knowledge of a thing. Gen. 3. 7. And their eyes were opened, &c. God opened the eyes both of body and minde, giving them sight and conscience of their outward shameful nakedness, and their inward souls impurity, which in the act of sinning they saw not.
Pure eyes]
;;The infinite holiness and justice of God, which cannot look upon any sin without extreme hatred and … of it. Hab. 1. 13. Thou art of pure eyes.
To have eyes and not see, ears and not hear]
;;To hear and see Gods Works and Words with the sense of the the body, but without the assent of the minde, taking no profit to amendment of life, but being rather more dulled and blinded by them. Isa. 6. 10. Mat. 13. 15. Rom. 11. 8. Act 28. 26, 27.
Having seven horns, and seven eyes]
Revel 5. 6. The Lamb wanted neither power, Lam. 2. 3. nor wisdom, Zach. 3. 9. & 4. 10. to open the seven seales. Leighs Annot.
Horns, signifie Power, Dan. 7. 24. Eyes, Knowledge or Wisdom, Isa. 35. 5. Both joyned together argue a fulness and perfection of power, Mat. 28. 18. and wisdom in Christ, Col. 2. 3, 9. So that we have here a lively representation of the … office of Christ. His Sacerdotal or Priestly, in the Lamb as slain: his Royal or Princely, in the Horns; his Prophetical office, in the eyes. Annot.
After the sight of the eyes]
;;According to the manner of men by outward appearance. Isa. 11. 3. He shall not judge after the sight of the eyes, &c. that is, his understanding shall be so quick and perfect, as Hypocrites with their outward works and words shall not deceive Christ, who seeth what is within man, Joh. 2. 24. Act. 1. v. last. Joh. 21. 15, 16, 17. He is the Searcher of the heart.
Eyes]
Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine Eyes, Cant. 4. 9. And, Turn away thine eyes from …, for they … overcome me, Cant. 6. 5. And, Thine Eyes are like the Fish-pools in Heshbon, Cant. 7. 4. Thus Christ speaketh to his Church. The Eye is either the eye of faith, which sees things invisible, … the eye of loyal and humble love, which is single and modest, looking only at Christ, and at nothing else, but for his sake, Mat. 6. 22. Annot.
Eyes mean here her faith, and the fruits thereof, as prayers, &c. wherewith Christ is greatly affected and delighted. Aynsw.
To wink with the eyes]
;;To … to see that truth, which (… men would) they cannot but see. Mat. 13. 15. They … with their eyes.
Eyes of the wise]
;;The circumspection and prudence of wise men, espying and finding out all things, both good and hurtful, that the one may be followed, and the other eschewed. Eccl. 2. 4. The eyes of the wise are in his head. As eyes set aloft in the head, are as … to look out for the weal of the whole body, so is wisdom unto the man that is wise: it looks out and tryeth all things, that he may do the good, and refuse the contrary.
Eye-salve]
;;The Spirit of light and of true wisdom, which doth open and illuminate the eyes of our soul, being before utterly blinde. Rev. 3. 18. And anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. It … a speech borrowed from a medicine, proper and peculiar to the curing of the eyes, called of Physicians, Collyrium.
Eye-service]
;;Duty and service done to please, only while the Master is in sight, being sloathful and carelesse in the absence of their Masters. Eph. 6. 6. Not with eye-service as … pleasers.
Eye-sight]
Psal. 18. 24. In his eye-sight, or before … eyes. Aynsw.
Eye-witnesses]
Such as saw, or were spectators of such things as they testified, Luk. 1. 2. 2 Pet. 1. 16.
E Z.
Ezbai]
The Father of Naarai, 1 Chr. 11. 37.
Ezbon]
Hastening to understand. The Son of …, Gen. 46. 16. The Son of Bela, 1 Chr. 7. 7.
Ezekiel]
The strength of God. A Prophet, Ezek. 1. 1.
Ezel]
A walking; or, of the way; or, that sheweth the way. A place, 1 Sam. 20. 19. marg.
Ezem]
A bone. A place, 1 Chr. 4. 29.
Ezer]
An help. The Son of Seir, a Duke, Gen. 36. 21. The Farher of Hushah, 1 Chr. 4. 4. An Ephraimite, 1 Chr. 7. 21. One of David's Helpers, 1 Chr. 12. 9. The Son of Jeshua, Neh. 3. 19.
Ezion-gaber]
Counsell of a man. The name of a place, Numb. 33. 35. 1 King. 22. 48.
Ezion-geber]
The same. 1 King. 22. 48. 2 Chron. 20. 36.
Eznite]
Adino, or Joshebbassebet the Tachmonite, head of the three thus styled, 2 Sam. 23. 8. marg.
Ezra]
An helper. The Father of Jether, 1 Chr. 4. 17. The Son of Seraiah, a famous Priest, Ezr. 7. 1, 11. A ready Scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given, Ibid. 6.
Ezrahite]
Ethan (famous for wisdom) thus denominated, 1 King. 4. 31.
Ezri]
My help. The Son of …, who was one of David's officers, namely, over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground, 1 Chr. 27. 26.
Ezron]
The arrowes of joyes; or, division of a Song. The Son of Reuben, 1 Chr. 5. 3. See Esrom and Hezron.