Bible Encyclopedia: Dragon: Symbolical

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Constantine's Letter to Eusebius and Other Bishops, Respecting the ...
... More probably for his wickedness, and perhaps with thought of the "dragon" of the ...
speaks of the serpent as the "subtlest." For historical and symbolical use of ...
/.../the life of constantine/chapter xlvi constantines letter to eusebius.htm

But Besides, if Birds of Augury Converse with one Another...
... A mighty dragon shot, of ... the poet and the majority of mankind, it is the "Olympian
himself who sent him to the light." And it is with a symbolical meaning [4043 ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xci but besides if.htm

New Testament History and Prophecy.
... events, then, that we must find the explanation of much of this symbolical language. ...
born to the woman is the Christian church; the great red dragon that seeks ...
/.../gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter x new testament history.htm

The Old Faith Preparing for the New - Development of Hellenist ...
... on heathenism than in the apocryphal story of Bel and the Dragon,' or in ... stories,
or to the popular beliefs, and by tracing the supposed symbolical meaning of ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iii the old faith.htm

The Protevangelium.
... the opinion of those who maintain that the serpent is only a symbolical signification
of ... xx.2), Satan is called the great dragon, and the old serpent; the last ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the protevangelium.htm

The Revelation and Career of the Anti-Christ.
... and of the stars to the ground and stamped upon them (probably a symbolical reference
to ... a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the Dragon (the Devil ...
/.../pink/the redeemers return/4 the revelation and career.htm

The Articles of Smalcald. AD 1537.
... They accordingly took their place, together with the Appendix, among the symbolical
books of the ... [481] Luther calls it also 'the dragon's tail (Drachenschwanz ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 44 the articles of.htm

The Apocalypse.
... The three enemies are the dragon (12:3-17), the beast from the sea (12:18-13:10),
and the beast from the earth, or ... (c) The number is symbolical of Antichrist ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 101 the apocalypse.htm

The Synod of Jerusalem and the Confession of Dositheus, AD 1672.
... were by the Synod of Jassy, and thus clothed with a semi-symbolical authority. ... p.
467): The Wisdom of Solomon, Judith, Tobit, History of the Dragon, History of ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 17 the synod of.htm

Acts x. 4-Jan
... sword of the Spirit" (Ephesians 6:17), the sword by which the dragon is beheaded. ...
seen and heard, and to be sensible of what the things shown were symbolical. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxii acts x 4-jan.htm

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Ezekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his rivers, which has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
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Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
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Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:
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Revelation 13:1
And I stood on the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy.
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Revelation 16:13
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
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Subtopics

Dragon

Dragon of the Sea

Dragon Well

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Dragon: A Serpent or the Desert

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Dragon: A Term Applied: To Satan

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