Bible Dictionary: Iron: Figurative

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2 Samuel 23:7
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
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Jeremiah 15:12
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
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1 Timothy 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... to a word or sentence turned from its literal signification to a figurative sense ...
So the false prophet Zedekiah "made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

'Thy Free Spirit'
... It must either be entirely figurative, taking sin and death as two great tyrants ...
Paul had found that, by an inexorable iron sequence, sin worked in himself the ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/thy free spirit.htm

Of the Reason Why Forty Generations (Not Including Christ Himself) ...
... of Zion!" [687] For the good, too, are ruled with a rod of iron, as it is ... Thus was
God making preparations then in a figurative manner for things which were to ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter iv of the reason why.htm

The Eternity of God
... The Roman emperors have three crowns set upon their heads, the first of iron, the
second ... There is a figurative description of God in Daniel 7:7. The Ancient of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/3 the eternity of god.htm

Introduction.
... which pervade the works of God, and constitute the basis of all figurative language,
whether ... and equal in size, the one of wood and the other of iron; and let ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/introduction.htm

Interpretation of Prophecy.
... Assyrian monarch's progress through the land of Judea, ending with a figurative
account of ... he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxviii interpretation of prophecy.htm

Some Rules for Discerning what is Said About Christ the ...
... Christ is oftentimes called a Stone in parable, and in figurative speech Jacob ... For
your first circumcision was and is performed by iron instruments, for you ...
/.../chapter cxiv some rules for discerning.htm

An Unalterable Law
... EVERYWHERE under the old figurative dispensation, blood was sure to greet your eyes. ...
his conscience seared, as it were, with a hot iron, and henceforth he will ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 60 1914/an unalterable law.htm

How Throughout all the East the Services of Tierce, Sext, and None ...
... of hell, and, bursting its brazen gates and breaking the iron bars brought ... offered
every day continually in the temple, although with figurative offerings, we ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter iii how throughout all.htm

The Form of Concord, Concluded.
... properties to the fire, nor the fire to the iron; neither are ... would lead to
transubstantiation rather than the semi-figurative (synecdochical) consubstantiation ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 46 the form of.htm

Subtopics

Iron

Iron and Bronze

Iron of a Hard Barren Soil

Iron of Greater Gravity than Water

Iron of Severe Affliction

Iron of Severe Exercise of Power

Iron of Small Comparative Value

Iron of Strength

Iron of Stubbornness

Iron used from the Earliest Age

Iron: (Seared With) Insensibility of Conscience