BLINDNESS.-SPIRITUAL.

Ezek. 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Dan. 12:10. None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Hos. 4:1. The LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: 14. The people that doth not understand shall fall.

Hos. 5:4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: . . . and they have not known the LORD.

Hos. 7.11. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart:

Amos 9:10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

Mic. 4:12. They know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel.

Matt. 6:23. If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Isa. 6:9,10.

Matt. 13:13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. Mark 4: 15; Luke 8:12.

whether is greater, the gift, or the alta that sanctifieth the gift? 24. Ye blind guides which strain at [out, R. V.] a gnat, and swallow a camel. 26. Thou blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. vs. 16-24.

Mark 4:11. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12. That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Luke 8:10.

Mark 6:52. They considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

Luke 4:18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to Matt. 5:15. Neither do men light a candle, heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverand put it under a bushel, but on a candle-ance to the captives, and recovering of sight stick; and it giveth light unto all that are to the blind, to set at liberty them that are in the house. 16. Let your light so shine bruised, before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Mark 7:18. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man it cannot defile him;

Matt. 22:29. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Mark 12:24.

Matt. 23:19. Ye fools and blind: for

Luke 11:52. Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye enter not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Luke 12:48. He that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. 57. Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

Luke 19:42. If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luke 23:34. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

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John 1:5. The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

John 3:4. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 7. Marvel not that ! said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 19. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20. Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 31. He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the

Matt. 15:14. They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matt. 16:3. O ye hypocrites, ye can dis-earth: vs. 9-12. cern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

John 4:10. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 22. Ye worship ye know not what: vs. 11,15.

John 12:38. That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been re-eth thee to repentance? vealed? Isa. 53:1.

John 14:17. The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:

John 15:21. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

BLINDNESS.

1 Cor. 15:34. Some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

2 Cor. 3:14. Their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; 15. Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

2 Cor. 4:3. If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Gal. 4:8. Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Eph. 4:18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Eph. 5:8. Ye were sometimes [once, R. V.] darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: Col. 1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

1 Thess. 4:4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God.

Jude 10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

1 Thess. 5:4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6. There- Rev. 3:17. Thou sayest, I am rich, and infore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us creased with goods, and have need of nothwatch and be sober. 7. For they that sleeping; and knowest not that thou art wretchsleep in the night; and they that be drunken ed, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and are drunken in the night. naked:

2 Thess. 1:8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Thess. 2:11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Tim. 3:7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 13. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

BLOOD.

a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculia people; that ye should shew forth the praise of him who hath called you out of darknes into his marvellous light:

2 Pet. 1:9. He that lacketh these things i blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath for gotten that he was purged from his old sins, 2 Pet. 3:16. As also in all his epistles. speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

1 John 1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:4. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 9. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 John 1:6.

1 John 3:1. The world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 6. Whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

1 John 4:8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

3 John 11. He that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Tit. 1:16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him,

Heb. 5:11. Ye are dull of hearing. 12. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

1 Pet. 1:14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

1 Pet. 2:9. But ye are a chosen generation,

See AFFLICTION, OBDURACY IN; MAN, IGNORANCE OF; GOD, PROVIDENCE OF, MISUNDERSTOOD.

INSTANCES OF: Israelites, Num. chapters 16; 17. Moab, 2 Kin. 3:27. Scribes, Matt. 9:3. See in the printed text above for other instances.

BLOOD. Is the life, Gen. 9:4; Lev. 17: 11,14; 19:16; Deut. 12:23; Matt. 27:4,24. Forbidden to be used as food, Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3: 17; 7:26,27: 17:10-14; 19:26; Deut. 12:16,23; 15: 23; Ezek. 33:25; Acts 15:20,29; 21:25. Plague of, Ex. 7:17-25; Psa. 78:44; 105:29.

SACRIFICIAL: Without shedding of, no remission, Heb. 9:22. Sprinkled on altar and people, Ex. 24:6-8; Ezek. 43:18,20. Sprinkled on door posts. Ex. 12:7-23; Heb. 11:28.

OF SIN OFFERING: Sprinkled seven times before the vail, Lev. 4:5,6,17; on horns of the altar of sweet incense, and at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. Ex. 30:10; Lev. 4: 7,18,25,30; 5:9; 9:9,12. Of bullock of sin offering, put on the horns of the altar, Ex. 29:12; Lev. 8:15; poured at the bottom of the altar. Ex. 29:12; Lev. 8:15. See OFFERINGS.

OF TRESPASS OFFERING: Sprinkled on the altar, Lev. 7:2. See OFFERINGS.

OF BURNT OFFERING: Sprinkled round about, and upon the altar, Ex. 29:16; Lev. 1: 511.15; 8:19; Deut. 12:27. See OFFERINGS. Used for cleansing of leprosy, Lev. 14:6,7, 17.28,51,52. See OFFERINGS.

OF PEACE OFFERING: Sprinkled about the altar, Lev. 3:2,8,13; 9:18. Blood of the ram of consecration put on tip of right ear, thumb, and great toe of, and sprinkled upon, Aaron and his sons, Ex. 29:20,21; Lev. 8:23,24,30. See OFFERINGS.

OF ATONEMENT: Sprinkled on mercy seat, Lev. 16:14,15,18,19,27; 17:11. See OFFERINGS. BLOOD OF THE COVENANT : Ex. 24:5-8; Zech. 9:11; Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:18,19,22; 10:29; 13:20. See OFFERINGS.

FIGURATIVE: Of victories, Psa. 58:10; of oppression and cruelty, Hab. 2:12; of destruction, Ezek. 35:6; of guilt, Lev. 20:9; 2 Sam. 1:16; Ezek. 18:13; of judgments, Ezek. 16:38; Rev. 16:6.

dedicated without blood: 19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

OF CHRIST: Matt. 26:28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20.

OF SACRIFICES, TYPICAI OF THE ATONING BLOOD OF CHRIST. Heb. 9:6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new Christ Jesus: 25. Whom God hath set forth testament, that by means of death, for the to be a propitiation through faith in his redemption of transgressions that were un-blood, to declare his righteousness for the der the first testament, they which are called remission of sins that are past, through the might receive the promise of eternal inherit- forbearance of God; ance. 16. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18. Whereupon neither the first testament was

Rom. 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in

John 6:53. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

John 19:34. But one of the soldiers with a

spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

Acts 20:28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Rom. 5:9. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

1 Cor. 10:16. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,

BLOOD.

BOASTING.

is it not the communion of the body of with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ Christ? his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 Cor. 11:25. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Eph. 1:7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Eph. 2:13. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 16. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Col. 1:14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 20. And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Heb. 9:12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb. 10:19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, though the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Heb. 12:24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Heb. 13:12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 20. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

1 John 5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. 8. There are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Rev. 1:5. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.

Rev. 5:9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Rev. 7:14. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Rev. 12:11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;

INSTANCES OF: Goliath, 1 Sam. 17. Benhadad, 1 Kin. 20:10. Sennacherib, 2 Kin. 18:19; Isa. 10:8-15. The disciples, Luke 10:17, with v. 20.

SPIRITUAL: Psa. 49:6. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7. None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8. (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9. That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Psa. 52:1. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Psa. 94:4. How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Rom. 3:27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. vs. 1–31.

1 Pet. 1:2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and Rom. 11:17. And if some of the branches sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: 18. be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not re-tree, wert graffed in among them, and with deemed with corruptible things, as silver them partakest of the root and fatness of and gold, from your vain conversation re- the olive tree; 18. Boast not against the ceived by tradition from your fathers; 19. branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest But with the precious blood of Christ, as of not the root, but the root thee. 19. Thou a lamb without blemish and without spot: wilt say then, The branches were broken 1 John 1:7. But if we walk in the light, as off, that I might be graffed in. 20. Well; he is in the light, we have fellowship one because of unbelief they were broken off,