Bible Dictionary: The Palm-Tree: The Church

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Songs 7:7,8
This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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The Washing Away of Sins is Indicated by the White Robes of the ...
... 39. The Church is beautiful in them. ... Thy stature is become like that of a
palm-tree, and thy breasts like bunches of grapes." [2879]. 40. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vii the washing away.htm

Firm to the End.
... We do not find the early Church talking in this way. ... There is a fable of the Persians
which tells us how a gourd wound itself round a lofty palm-tree, and in a ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon liii firm to the.htm

Being About to Prove that the Will, the Calling...
... As, then, God the Father called the Church, so, too, Christ called it, and so ... as
the prophet said: "The righteous shall flourish as the palm-tree, and shall be ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter x being about to.htm

Visions of Future Glory
... is as a storm against the wall," God will be to His church "a refuge ... is dried up,
and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 60 visions of future.htm

His Head is as the Most Fine Gold, his Locks as the Clusters of ...
... through His death. Then the bud of the palm-tree opened and the church emerged
from the heart of her Bridegroom. There the adorable ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/11 his head is as.htm

The Secret of Gladness
... formalist's form, whether it be the elaborate ritual of the Catholic Church, or
the ... true Christian form is elastic, like the stem of a palm-tree, which curves ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the secret of gladness.htm

The General Service to one Hieromartyr
... The Versicle: The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like
a ... Thy sacred deeds as an ascending gradual hath acquired the church which thou ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xvi the general service.htm

The General Service to one Martyr.
... is illumined with the rays of the passion-bearer, and the church of God ... The Versicle :
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xiv the general service.htm

Psalm XCII.
... The old age of the Church will be white with good works, but it shall not decay
through death. ... "The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree" (ver.12). ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xcii.htm

Fruits of Recognized Union
... words, "Return, return," an indication of the rapture of the Church; and explain ...
Grace has made her like the palm-tree, the emblem alike of uprightness and of ...
/.../taylor/union and communion/section v fruits of recognized.htm

Subtopics

Palm-Tree

The Palm-Tree: Blasted As a Punishment

The Palm-Tree: First Mention of, in Scripture

The Palm-Tree: Flourishing

The Palm-Tree: Fruitful to a Great Age

The Palm-Tree: Jericho Celebrated For

The Palm-Tree: Represented in Carved Work on the Walls and Doors of The

The Palm-Tree: Requires a Moist and Fertile Soil

The Palm-Tree: Tall

The Palm-Tree: Tents often Pitched Under the Shade of

The Palm-Tree: The Branches of, Were used for Constructing Booths