A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part ID
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Idalah]
The hand of slander; or, an oath, or cursing; or, after the … and Syrian, the band of God. A City, Josh. 19. 15.
Idbash]
Flowing with honey; or, the band of destruction. Of …. 1 Chr. 4. 3.
Iddo]
His hand, power, or consession. The Father of Ahinadob, 1 King. 4. 14. The Son of Joah, 1 Chr. 6. 21. The Son of Zechariah, 1 Chr. 27. 21. A Seer, 2 Chr. 9. 29. A Prophet. Ezr. 5. 1. The … at the place, Casiphia, Ezr. 8. 17. One that went up with …, Neh. 12. 4.
Idle]
;;He that may … and will not, but ceaseth to labour, through love of ease. Exod. 5. 17. Ye are … idle.
;;2. One that is …, … he lacks work. Mat. 20. 3, 6. Why stand ye here all day idle? Because no man hath hired us. The former are idle voluntarily, but these latter ….
3. Unprofitable, and which tendeth not unto edification, Mat. 12. 36.
Idle]
Of every idle word, Mat. 12. 36. It is the custom of all Writers, very frequent in the Sacred …, to use phrases, whereby they understand much more then they expresie So foreign, idle word, is much more then idle, vain, even blasphemous speeches. The word foreign, may bear proport on in sense to the Hebrew foreign, which signifies … indeed, but frequently salse, because that which is false wants the solidity and substance of truth. It's quasi foreign, when the words are without deeds agreeing to them. It may referre to the notion of foreign, used for reproach and contumely, ch. 5. 11. for such was that against Christ, vers. 24. that great contumely and falsity of his casting out devils by the Prince of Devils. That it is some grand crime, not every word which tends not to some special end of Christian edification, appears by the next verse, where they are affirmed to be such, as for which under Christ, men are sure to be condemned, and not by evill works or actions only. Dr. Hammond, Annot. e. & m.
Idlenesse]
The sin of Sodome, Ezek. 16. 49. The decay of a house, Eccl. 10. 18.
Idos]
;;Any image or visible representation of a false or true God, though it be not worshipped, nor made with any intention of worship. 1 Joh. 5. 21. Keep your selves from Idols. 2 Cor. 6. 16. … agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? Deut. 4. 15. doth manifest the truth of this. For the image which the Jews made of the true God, is condemned of God himself, Exod. 32. 8. and they that made it were punished as Idolaters. 1 Cor. 10. 7. Neither be ye Idolaters, as were some of them, with whom God was not well pleased. 1 Cor. 10. 5. Finally, in the forenamed place of …. 4. 15. the only making of an image of God is precisely forbidden; and learned Divines both … and prove, that both Scriptures and Fathers have indifferently used the word Idol and Image, for one and the self-same thing. Witnesse that one place of … (among many) upon those words of 1 Joh. 5. 21. John (saith he) doth not write thus, Keep your selves from Idolatry; that is, from the service of them: but from Idols; that is, from the very Image of them. It is therefore a dotage in Popery, to distinguish between Idol and Image, and to make the Picture of a false god only, to be an Idol.
;;Note: Papists call Idols which represent things which never were in being, or representeth them in nature of a God: and Images, which represent things that had a true being, in whom they worship (as they say) the thing represented.
;;Also note, that Idol in … signifieth a figure or representation, whence cometh the diminutive Idolon, which signifieth, a little form or fashion: and therefore every little representation or figure must be called an Idol. Tertull. lib. de Idolat. Cap. 3. Images which they call Idols, Tully 1 de Finibus.
;;2. Devils, Isa. 19. 3.
They are set forth by abominations, Covers, silver, gold, staffe, cisterns that will hold no water, other gods, strange gods, gods of gold, silver, brasse, &c. …, &c. They are most vain, 2 King. 19. 18. Isa. 37. 19. & 41. 22, 23, 29. … of sense and motion, neither speaking, seeing, hearing, smelling, handling, walking, Psal. 115. 5, 6, 7. They are of no power or efficacy, lesse then nothing, Isa. 41. 24. Nothing in the world, 1 Cor. 8. 4. & 10. 19. namely, with relation (not unto the matter thereof, which is gold, silver, &c. or object thereof, things in heaven or earth) unto their efficacy. Hence they are named foreign, nothings, lies, vanities. Nor can they save or deliver their Worshippers in the time of trouble, Deut. 32. 37, 38. 1 Sam. 12. 21. Isa. 45. 20. Hos. 8. 5. nor themselves from thieves, Gen. 31. 19, 30. Judg. 18. 17, 18, 24. from enemies, Isa. 46. 1, 2. Jer. 48. 7. & 49. 3. Hos. 10. 6. Isa. 37. 19. They are not profitable, Hab. 2. 18. They must perish, Isa. 1. 31. & 2. 18. Jer. 8. 11, 15. They are hurtfull and pernicious, Exod. 23. 33. Deut. 7. 16. Josh. 23. 13. Judg. 2. 3. They are filthy, abominable, detestable, &c.
Idol]
Zech. 11. 17. The word here for Idol signifieth a thing of nothing, of no worth, an empty, vain, vacant thing. Annot.
2 Chr. 15. 16. Hebr. horrour, marg. Idols, Deut. 29. 17. Heb. … gods, marg. Isa. 2. 20. His idols of silver, Heb. the Idol of his silver, marg. Zeph. 1. 3. Idols, or the stumbling blocks, marg. Comp. the text with the marg. Zech. 10. 2. …. Teraphims, marg. Lev. 19. 4. Turn ye not to Idols. Idols called in Hebr. Elilim, which properly signifieth things of nought, nothing, vain, and nought worth, according to the nature of which name, Paul saith, We know that an idol is nothing in the … 1 Cor. 8. 4. Flim signifieth Gods; …, no gods; which the Greek here nameth Eidola, whereof our English Idols is derived. In the Chald. they are called errours or aberrations. And Elilim is applyed to other things also which are of no value, as in Job 13. 4. Physicians, …, that is, …, or of no value; and in Jerem. 14. 14. … Prophets prophesied, Elil, a thing of nought. And as Images are the same that Idols in signification, so Images of silver and gold, are called Elilim, Idols, Isa. 2. 20. So that hereby God forbiddeth the transgression of the First and Second Commandements. Aynsw.
… is nothing]
;;The false and saigned gods of the Heathen. 1 Cor. 8. 4. An Idol is nothing. Gen. 31. 19, 30. An Idol to be as an empty and vain dream; not in respect of the matter whereof it is made, (for that is something) or of the externall sorm, but in respect of the internal form which doth … and falsifie true things, making them seem to be what they are not. Also in … of the vain minde of the Idolater, who wickedly imagineth some divinity to be in the Idol, whereas there is but one true God in the world. Therefore worthily is an Idol said to be nothing, being a false and lying sign, a very fiction, being nothing for signification, though something for substance, a piece of wood, stone, &c. 1 Cor. 8. 4. An Idol ought to represent either God, which it cannot, he being unlike to any mortal thing: or Gods, which are none, for there is but one God.
An Idol is nothing in the world, 1 Cor. 8. 4. The meaning of this assertion of the Gnosticks, and concession of St. Paul's, that an idol is nothing in the world, must needs be … from the notation of the Heb. word, foreign, from foreign, that signifies nothing, that … hath no existence, so far from being gods, that they are foreign, nothing in the world, no parts of Gods first Creation, only inventions and sancies of men, creatures of mens … creating. Wicked men are the formers first, and then the worshippers of their wicked deities. Dr. Hamm. Annot. a.
Idolater]
An Idol-worshipper, who being forgetfull of God, Deut. 8. 19. and … from him, Ezek. 14. 15. loveth, serveth, walketh after, seeketh to, and worshippeth …, Jer. 8. 2. … himself with them, Isa. 57. 5. is mad upon them, Jer. 50. 38. trusteth in them, Psal. 115. 8. … a whoring after them, Ezek. 6. 9. setteth them up in his heart, Ezek. 14. 3, 4, 7. asketh counsell at them, Hos. 4. 12. lifteth up his eyes to them, Ezek. 18. 6, 12, 15. prayeth unto them, Isa. 44. 17. his heart going after them, Ezek. 20. 16.
Idolater, or with Idolaters]
1 Cor. 5. 10 That foreign here is not to be restrained to the particular sin of worshipping pictures or images, will be probable by the rest of the sins which are joyned with it, for which a Christian Professor is to be excommunicated, v. 11. It seems rather to referre either to the joyning in the Idol seasts, of which the Gnostick hereticks were guilty; or else to those filthy practises, so frequent and customary in their mysteries, as prime rites of the Heathen false Worships, and taken up in a most vile manner by the Gnosticks also. That the word should thus be used, will appear most reasonable,
1 Because of the words used in the Old Testament, to signifie an idol, foreign, is one, which signifies pollution or filth, by which any man is contaminated, and which is sometimes rendred foreign, abomination, and the false god, or Idol meant sometime, when foreign, abomination is used, as Wisd. 12. 23.
2 Because their Heathen worships were so full of these soul sins, Ib. 14. 23, & 26, 27. Jer. 44. 19. 1 King. 14. 24. See Levit. 18. 24, 25, 27, 28, 29. To which purpose no doubt it was, that the sign of Gods Covenant with his people, was that of Circumcision, a sign of the excision of pleasures, … the casting off that … of naughtinesse, which had been … among those Nations; and the same is more then intimated in our Baptisme, the outward part of which is the washing away the filth of the flesh, and … the sorsaking of all the … lusts thereof. So 1 King. 15. 12. the Idols and the Sodomites are mentioned together. And 2 King. 23. 7. the … of the Sodomites are cast down. So Isa. 57. 5. You that inflame your selves with idols under every green tree. Noting that prostitution of men and women in the groves, about their Idol-Temples, in honour of their false gods. Dr. Ham. Annot. i.
Idolater]
;;One who maketh Images for Religious use, or worshipeth the Image of the true God, or of the false. Rev. 21. 8. And Idolaters.
Idolatrous]
2 King 23. 5. The idolatrous Priests. The root foreign, Camar, whence this word cometh, is used to set forth the heat and ardency of the bowels, when one is moved in compassion as Gen. 43. 30. 1 King. 3. 26. Hos. 11. 8. It is also used (1 Sam. 5. 10.) for the blacknesse or shrinking of the skin with famine. This title Chemarim was given to idolatrous Priest, either by reason of their preposterous zeall and fervency about their …; or, because they used to wear black cloaths, or because they were much exercised in burning Sacrifices and Incense. ….
Idolatry]
;;The worship or adoration of an Image, or of God, before, and by an Image, 1 Cor. 10. 7. Neither be Idolaters, as they were. Deut. 5. 9. Thou shalt neither … to them, nor serve them.
;;2. The making of any Image or likenesse of God, or of any creature in heaven or earth, for a religious end. Deut. 5. 8. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, or likenesse, &c. Gal. 5. 20. Idolatry, witchcrast, &c. 1 Cor. 6. 9. All worship of false gods, and false worship of the true God, is Idolatry.
;;3. All humane inventions thrust into Divine service. Deut. 12. 32. … I command you, that doe, put nothing thereto.
;;4. Setting the heart inordinately upon any creature, by fearing, loving, trusting in it more then in God, and above him. Thus is covetousnesse called Idolatry, Col. 3. 5. and Wantons make their belly their God, Phil. 3. 19. Eph. 5. 5. Here an Idolater is one addicted and bent to the service of Idols.
5. The immoderate love unto, and distrustfull care for the things of the world. Col. 3. 5. And covetousnesse, which is Idolatry.
Idolatry]
… given to Idolatry, Act. 17. 16. That Athens was a City full of Images, or Idols, or Altars erected to the gods, and much given to the worship of them, appears by Pausanias, the number of the Simulachra, or foreign there, being more then in all Greece beside. Which is also affirmed by others. Dr. Ham. Annot. a.
Idumea]
Red, earthy; or, bloody. A part of … the stony; thus called from Edom or Esau the Son of Isaac, Gen. 25. 30.