Bible Dictionary: Water: Symbolical

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Isaiah 8:7
Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
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Revelation 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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Revelation 12:15
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
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Revelation 16:4
And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
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Revelation 17:1,15
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show to you the judgment of the great whore that sits on many waters:
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Library

Pretended Symbolical Explanations.
... Chapter XXII."Pretended Symbolical Explanations. ... If, then, Zeus is fire, and Hera
the earth, and Aïdoneus the air, and Nê stis water, and these are elements ...
/.../a plea for the christians/chapter xxii pretended symbolical explanations.htm

The Change of Water into Wine. --Character and Import of The
... revealed life. But it has a further and a great symbolical import: Christ
employed water, one of the commonest sup. ports of life ...
/.../section 116 the change of.htm

Of the Testimony of John to Jesus in Matthew's Gospel,
... works done by the Saviour in the cures He wrought, which are symbolical of those ...
benefited by them to an exercise of faith, so the washing with water which is ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/17 of the testimony of.htm

Nicodemus.
... His baptism with water was of course symbolical; that is to say, the water itself
exercised no spiritual influence, but merely represented to the eye what was ...
/.../dods/the expositors bible the gospel of st john vol i/vii nicodemus.htm

The Destroyers and the Restorer
... a 'river of water of life.' And as the ancient name of that Temple was the 'Tent
of Meeting,' the place where Israel and God, in symbolical and ceremonial form ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the destroyers and the restorer.htm

The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
... "For the use of symbolical speech is ... of children embraces the interpretation of the
four elements; for it is said that the Phrygians call water Bedu, as also ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter viii the use of the.htm

Meditation viii. Institution of the Holy Eucharist.
... aside during the Paschal meal, also a jar containing wine and water, and three ... this
custom (which had hitherto been no more than a symbolical and figurative ...
/.../meditation viii institution of the.htm

Entire Sanctification in Prophecy.
... and committed sins, symbolical of the New Testament washing of regeneration, symbolical
also of ... of their past sins: "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you ...
/.../clark/the theology of holiness/chapter v entire sanctification in.htm

In the Last, the Great Day of the Feast'
... His words must refer to the Holy Spirit, since the rite was universally regarded
as symbolical of His outpouring. The forthpouring of the water was immediately ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter vii in the last.htm

(On the Mysteries. Ii. )
... things, which were done by you in the inner chamber [2394] , were symbolical. ... that
saving confession, and descended three times into the water, and ascended ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xx on the mysteries.htm