Bible Encyclopedia: The Lion:

◄ The Lion: (Tamed) the Natural Man Subdued by Grace ►

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Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will, and Miserably Enslaved.
... a nature, that it can be tamed and gradually ... that the discourse related to the natural
man (August. ... The French adds, "Ancien evesque de Lion;" ancient bishop ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 2 man now deprived.htm

Human Inability
... a sheep sigh after carrion; it could not live on lion's food. ... Can it not be tamed? ...
which we so specially marked in our reading, "The natural man receiveth not ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/human inability.htm

The Creation of Terrestrial Animals.
... has strong passions, the wolf cannot be tamed, the fox ... and thou shalt trample under
feet the lion and the ... wish that the Son should keep His natural likeness to ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily ix the creation of.htm

A New Order of Priests and Levites
... They had no inbred faculty, no natural genius that qualified ... and how every word that
the lion-tamer chooses to ... a great sinner, after he has tamed him, removed ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/a new order of priests.htm

The Hymns of Isaac Watts
... of metre; but Watts found no metre ready tamed for his ... other hand, we have this pleasing
picture of supernatural natural history ... But Judah's Lion guards the way. ...
/.../manning/the hymns of wesley and watts five papers/the hymns of isaac watts.htm

The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgment:
... for though there dwell never so much of the Spirit and grace of God ... it is laid into
the earth a mere lump of man's nature""It is sown a natural body;" but ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the resurrection of the dead.htm

The Holy War,
... and Father, to rescue his people from their natural state of ... their skill To make
it manifest to any man, That reason ... joy, and roared on it as a lion upon the ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy war.htm

An Exposition on the First Ten Chapters of Genesis, and Part of ...
... is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the ... which is spiritual, but that which
is natural; and afterwards ... not concerned in a covenant of grace; they think ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/an exposition on the first.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 11:7
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.
Torrey's Topical Textbook