A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part GN
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Gnash]
An expression of rage, Job 16. 9. Psal. 35. 16. & 37. 12. & 112. 10. Lam., 2. 16. Act. 7. 54.
Gnash]
Job 16. 9. He Gnashed upon me with his teeth. In derision, or contempt, or as a sign that he will destroy me, Psal. 35. 16. Like a wilde beast ready to devour a poor lamb, and preparing the instruments of his destruction, sharpening his teeth, &c. and by gnashing his teeth threatning …, Psal. 37. 12. Annot.
Gnashing of teeth, Mat. 8. 12. foreign, though it might be thought to signifie chattering of teeth, proper to a state of cold, and agreeable to the second notion of Hell, by some mentioned from Job 24. 19. Gehenna nivis, the hell of snow; as the other is Gehenna ignis, the hell of fire. Yet the notion of foreign, Act. 7. 54. for anger or rage, which is proper to that of gnashing the teeth, and the mention of fire joyned with it, Mat. 13. 4, 50. which cannot agree with chattering, do sufficiently … the ordinary rendring, gnashing and grinding of teeth, as in pain or rage is usual. Dr. Hamm. Annot. ….
Gnat]
Mat. 23. 24. Which strain at a gnat and swallow a camell; that is, are observant and superstitious in the smallest things, negligent and careless in those of greatest moment. As the … in sweetness, so it delighteth in sowrnesse.
In some Countreys Gnats have been so troublesome, that the inhabitants have been inforced to remove their …, but every where they are more then enough. They love the Candle light, but are thereby burnt.
Gnaw]
through hunger, Zeph. 3. 3. for sorrow, Rev. 16. 10.
To gnaw their tongues]
;;To take most grievously the fall of their pomp, dignity, and authority; also furiously, for extreme sorrow, to bite their own tongues. Rev. 16. 10. And they gnawed their tongues for sorrow. Some do expound this, of renouncing their own proud words and writings. But the former signification is better.
To be in great agony, like those that bite their tongues for grief and anger, ready at the next increase of pain to devour or destroy themselves. Or, it may be meant, They shall eat their words and be ashamed of their railings upon Gods Saints, though they leave not their idolatry, vers. 11. Annot.
Gnidus]
A rage. An Isle by which Paul sailed when he went to Rome, Act. 27. 7.