Bible Dictionary: Lion: Symbolical

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Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelled! add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
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Library

The Four Gospels.
... The symbolical poesy of the church compares them with the four rivers of Paradise ...
representatives of the creation, assigning the man to Matthew, the lion to Mark ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 78 the four gospels.htm

Five Catechetical Lectures the Same Author,
... our adversary the devil, as was just now read, as a roaring lion, walketh about ... into
the Holy of Holies [2392] , we shall there know the symbolical meaning of ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/five catechetical lectures the same.htm

Matthew.
... Jerome then applies the four symbolical figures of Ezekiel to the Gospels: the Man
is Matthew, the Lion, Mark, the Calf, Luke, "because he began with Zacharias ...
//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the principal works of st jerome/matthew.htm

We Arrive Now at a Branch of Our Subject Upon which the Lord's ...
... Dan.7:4 says "The first was like a lion." 7:5 says "The second was like ... dreadful
and terrible." Now, in Rev.13:1, 2, where we have a symbolical description of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/we arrive now at a.htm

Symbolic Ornaments of the Church
... made by the interlacing of three portions of circles, is also symbolical of the ... Rock;
but most commonly the Evangelistic symbols are the Man, the Lion, the {84 ...
/.../regester/the worship of the church/symbolic ornaments of the church.htm

The First vision "In Heaven": Chapters 4-5
... A v.1-7. The Throne and the Book: the Lion and the Lamb ... on their heads [131] crowns
of gold] The common interpretation is that the Elders are symbolical of the ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the first vision in heaven .htm

Jesus Only
... could exchange spiritual fellowship with Jesus for outward acts and symbolical
representations. ... God, there might have remained to them only the lion who roared ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 16 1870/jesus only.htm

The Middle Ages.
... These were built so as to be almost as symbolical as the Temple had been. ... Our own
Richard the Lion Heart did his best, and so did the excellent French king, St ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xxxi the middle ages.htm

The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... dwell with the lamb, the leopard lie down with the kid, the lion eat straw ... But the
symbolical action that follows"the joining of two sticks into one"seems ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

New Testament History and Prophecy.
... events, then, that we must find the explanation of much of this symbolical language. ...
and sitting thereon the Lamb that was slain, who is also the Lion of the ...
/.../gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter x new testament history.htm

Subtopics

Lion

Lion of a Ruler's Anger

Lion of Divine Judgments

Lion of Satan

Lion used for the Torture of Criminals

Lion: An Unnamed Person Killed By

Lion: Disobedient Prophet Killed By

Lion: Fierceness of

Lion: Instincts of, in Taking Prey

Lion: Kept in Captivity

Lion: Killed by Benaiah