been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23. For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom. 8:10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

1 John 1:1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life: 2. (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

LIGHT. Created, Gen. 1:3-5; Isa. 45:7; 2 Cor. 4:6. Miraculous, Matt. 17:2; Acts 9:3. FIGURATIVE AND SYMBOLICAL: 1 Kin. 11:36. And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

Psa. 27:1. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psa. 119:105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 130. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Prov. 6:23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;

draw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Matt. 4:16. The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Matt. 5:14. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Luke 2:32. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

Luke 11:34. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Luke 16:8. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

John 1:4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 7. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

John 3:19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 5:35. He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

ness.

Isa. 8:20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isa. 49:6. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isa. 58:8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Isa. 60:19. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon with

John 9:5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

John 12:35. Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

Acts 26:18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Eph. 5:8. For ye were sometimes darkness,

LIGHT.

but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

LOD.

19:19; Deut. 22:11. The body of Jesus wrapped in, Mark 15:46; John 20:5.

FIGURATIVE: Pure and white, of righteousness, Rev. 15:6; 19:8,14.

LINUS, a Christian at Rome, 2 Tim. 4:21. LION. King of beasts, Mic. 5:8. Fierce

1 Thess. 5:5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

1 Tim. 6:16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto;

Jas. 1:17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

1 Pet. 2:9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

2 Pet. 1:19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts:

1 John 1:5. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Rev. 21:23. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

LIGHTNING, Job 28:26; 37:3; 38:25,35; Psa. 18:14; 77:18; 78:48; 97:4; 135:7; 144:6; Jer. 10:13; 51:16; Ezek. 1:13,14; Dan. 10:6; Nah. 2:4; Zech. 9:14; 10:1; Matt. 24:27; 28:3; Luke 10:18; Rev. 4:5; 8:5; 11:19; 16:18.

LIGN-ALOE, a tree, not identified by naturalists, Num. 24:6.

LIGURE, a precious stone, Ex. 28:19;

39:12.

LILY. The principal chapiters of the temple ornamented with carvings of, 1 Kin. 7:19,22,26. Molded on the rim of the molten laver in the temple, 1 Kin. 7:26; 2 Chr. 4:5. Lessons of trust gathered from, Matt. 6:28-30; Luke 12:27.

FIGURATIVE: Of the lips of the beloved, Song 5:13.

LIME, Isa. 33:12; Amos 2:1.

LINEN. Exported from Egypt, 1 Kin. 10:28; Ezek. 27:7; from Syria, Ezek. 27:16. Curtains of the tabernacle made of, Ex. 26: 1; 27:9. Vestments of priests made of, Ex. 28:5-8,15,39-42. Livery of royal households made of, Gen. 41:42; Esth. 8:15. Garments for men made of, Gen. 41:42; Ezek. 9:2; Luke 16:19; for women, Isa. 3:23; Ezek. 16:10-13. Bedding made of, Prov. 7:16. Mosaic law forbade its being mingled with wool, Lev.

Jer. 2:15: 49:19; 50:44; Hos. 13:8. The roaring of, Psa. 22:13; Prov. 20:2. Strength of, Prov. 30:30; Isa. 38:13; Joel 1:6. Instincts of, in taking prey, Psa. 10:9; 17:12; Lam. 3:10; Amos 3:4; Nah. 2:12. Lair of, in the jungles, Jer. 4:7; 25:38. The bases in the temple ornamented by mouldings of, 1 Kin. 7: 29,36. Twelve statues of, on the stairs leading to Solomon's throne, 1 Kin. 10:19,20. Samson's riddle concerning, Judg. 14:14, 18. Proverb of, Eccl. 9:4. Parable of, Ezek. 19: 1-9. Kept in captivity, Dan. 6. Sent as judgment upon the Samaritans, 2 Kin. 17: 25,26. Slain by Samson, Judg. 14:5-9; David, 1 Sam. 17:34,36; Benaiah, 2 Sam. 23:20; saints, Heb. 11:33. Disobedient prophet slain by, 1 Kin. 13:24-28; an unnamed person slain by, 1 Kin. 20:36. Used for the torture of criminals, Dan. 6:16-24; 7:12; 2 Tim. 4:17.

FIGURATIVE: Of a ruler's wrath, Prov. 19:12; Jer. 5:6; 50:17; Hos. 5:14; of Satan, 1 Pet. 5:8; of divine judgments, Isa. 15:9.

SYMBOLICAL: Gen. 49:9; Isa. 29:1 [marg. ]; Ezek. 1:10; 10:14; Dan. 7:4; Rev. 4:7; 5:5; 9: 8,17; 13:2.

LITIGATION, to be avoided, Matt. 5: 25; Luke 12:58; 1 Cor. 6:1-8.

See ACTIONS AT LAW: ADJUDICATION; ARBITRATION; COMPROMISE.

LITTER, an Oriental contrivance for carrying persons, Isa. 66:20.

LIVER. Burnt in sacrifice, Lev. 3:5. Superstitious rites with, Ezek. 21:21.

LIVERY, of seizin. See LAND, CONVEYANCE OF.

LIZARD, Lev. 11:30; Prov. 30:28 [R. V.]. LO-AMMI, a symbolical name given to a son of Hosea, Hos. 1:9.

LOAVES. Miracle of the five, Matt. 14: 15-21; 16:9; Luke 9:12-17; of the seven, Matt. 15:34-38; 16:10.

See BREAD.

LOBBYING, Ezra 4:4,5.

See DIPLOMACY; INFLUENCE, POLITICAL. LOCK, Judg. 3:23-25; Neh. 3:13,14; Song 5:5.

LOCUST. Authorized as food, Lev. 11: 22; used as, Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6. Plague of, Ex. 10:1-19; Psa. 105:34,35. Devastation by, Deut. 28:38; 1 Kin. 8:37; 2 Chr. 7:13; Isa. 33: 4; Joel 1:4-7; Rev. 9:7-10. Sun obscured by, Joel 2:2,10. Instincts of, Prov. 30:27.

In A. V. often inaccurately translated grasshopper, as in Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:20; Jer. 46:23.

See GRASSHOPPER.

FIGURATIVE: Jer. 46:23 [R. V.].
SYMBOLICAL: Rev. 9:3-10.

LOD. A city in Benjamin, 1 Chr. 8:12; Ezra 2:33; Neh. 7:37; 11:35. Called Lydda, Acts 9:38.

LO-DEBAR. A city in Manasseh, 2 Sam. 9:4,5; 17:27. Home of Mephibosheth, the lame son of Jonathan, 2 Sam. 9:3-5.

LOG, a measure for liquids, holding about a pint, Lev. 14:10,12,15,24.

LOIS, grandmother of Timothy, commended by Paul for her faith, 2 Tim. 1:5.

LONGEVITY. Gen. 6:3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Ex. 20:12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

1 Pet. 3:10. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11. Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. See OLD AGE.

INSTANCES OF: Adam, 930 years, Gen. 5:5. Seth, 912 years, Gen. 5:8. Enos, 905 years, Gen. 5:11. Cainan, 910 years, Gen. 5:14. Mahalaleel, 895 years, Gen. 5:17. Jared, 962 years, Gen. 5:20. Enoch, 365 years, Gen. 5:23. Methuselah, 969 years, Gen. 5:27. Lamech, 777 years, Gen. 5:31. Noah, 950 years, Gen. 9:29. Shem, Gen. 11:11. Arphaxad, Gen. 11:13. Salah, Gen. 11:15. Eber, Gen. 11:17. Peleg, Gen. 11:19. Reu, Gen. 11:21. Serug, Gen. 11:23. Nahor, Gen. 11:25. Terah, 205 years, Gen. 11:32. Sarah, 127 years, Gen. 23:1. Abraham, 175 years, Gen. 25:7. Isaac, 180 years, Gen. 35:28. Jacob, 147 years, Gen. 47:28. Joseph, 110 years, Gen.

Job 5:26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Psa. 21:4. He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

Psa. 34:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psa. 90:10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psa. 91:16. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Prov. 3:1. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 16. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

Prov. 9:11. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Prov. 10:27. The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Isa. 65:20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

123 years, Num. 33:39. Moses, 120 years, Deut. 31:2; 34:7. Joshua, 110 years, Josh. 24:29. Eli, 98 years, 1 Sam. 4:15. Barzillai, 80 years, 2 Sam. 19:32. Job, Job 42:16. Jehoiada, 130 years, 2 Chr. 24:15. Anna, Luke 2:36,37. Paul, Philem. 1:9.

LONGSUFFERING. 1 Cor. 13:4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; 7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

2 Cor. 6:4. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6. By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost,

Gal. 5:22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Eph. 4:1. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2. With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Col. 1:11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Col. 3:12. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you, so also do ve.

1 Tim. 1:16. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

2 Tim. 3:10. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

2 Tim. 4:2. Preach the word; be instant

join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar;

Jer. 2:2. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3. Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: Mark 12:29. Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 32. Änd the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 33. To love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Matt. 22:37,38.

Luke 11:42. Ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

John 5:42. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Rom. 5:5. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Rom. 8:28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,

1 Cor. 8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Phil. 1:9. I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

2 Thess. 3:5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

2 Tim. 1:7. God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

1 John 2:5. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 15. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 3:17. Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

1 John 4:12. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 16. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19. We love him, because he first loved us. 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 John 5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:

2 John 6. This is love, that we walk after his commandments.

Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God,

OF MAN FOR JESUS: Matt. 10:37. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. v. 38.

Matt. 25:34. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36. Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38. When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39. Or when saw we thee. sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matt. 27:55. And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: 56. Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. 57. When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59. And when Joseph had taken the body,