wrote the dream, and told the Dan. vii, 28. Hitherto is the Dan. vill, 1, 2, 8. 9. 15, 16. 26. 27. In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I asat Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulal. The he-goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones, toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulal, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shat thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. And I Daniel fainted,and was sick certain days: afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. Dan. x, 1, 7-9. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, bat the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. Амов. them in the head, all of them: and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away; and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. (ZECHARIAH, See under PARABLES AND EMBLEMS.) ANANIAS. Acts ix, 10. And there was a certain disciple at Damascus. named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. CORNELIUS. Acts x, 3. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming into him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. PAUL. Acts xxii, 18. And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. 2 Cor. xil, 1-4. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory: I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. JOHN. Rev. vi, 1. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. Rev. xvii, 7-14. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names were not written in the book of life from I the foundation of the world,) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. Amos ix, 1. I saw the LORD standing upon the altar; and he Bald, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut The seven heads are seven moun- 721 and And the tinue a short space. beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour mind, and shall give their power with the beast. These have one and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. THE DISCIPLES. Matth. xvii, 2, 3. And was transdid shine as the sun, and his raifigured before them: and his face ment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Luke ix, 32, 33. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him. And it came to pass, as said unto Jesus, Master, it is they departed from him, Peter good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. NIGHT AND SLEEP. 1 Sam. ix, 6. And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we should go. Esther vi, 1. On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the Chronicles; and they were read before the king. Ps. iii, 5. I laid me down and slept, I awaked; for the Lord sus tained me. Ps. iv, 8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, safety. Lord, only makest me dwell in Ps. lxxvi, 5. The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. Prov. iii, 24. When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Prov. iv, 16. For they sleep not except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall. Eccles. v, 12. The sleep of a 2Z labouring man is sweet, whether Cant. ii, 7. I charge you, O ye Cant. ill, 1, 2. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. Cant. viii, 4. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. Jer. xxxi, 26. Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Jer. li, 39. In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord. Dan. vi, 19. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the deu of lions. Micah ii, 1. devise iniquity, and work evil Woe to them that upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. Matth. xxvi, 43. And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. Mark xiv, 40. And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. 1 Thess. v, 6, 7. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. DREAMS. NATURAL AND SUPER- Job vil, 13, 14. When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. Job xxxiii, 14-17. speaketh once, yea twice, yet man For God perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed: openeth the ears of men, and sealThen he eth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. cometh through the multitude of Eccles. v, 3, 7. For a dream business; and a fool's voice is For in the multitude of dreams known by multitude of words. and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. Isa. xxix, 7, 8. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and dream of a night-vision. It shall that distress her, shall be as a but he awaketh, and his soul is even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; dreameth, and, behold, he drinkempty: or as when a thirsty man eth; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite. a ..... ANXIETY TO INTERPRET DISAPPOINTED. in the morning, that his [Pharaoh's] Daniel il, 2-13. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorshew the king his dreams. So they cerers, and the chaldeans, for to came and stood before the king. have dreamed a dream, and my And the king said unto them, I spirit was troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chal The king, live for ever: tell thy ser- ye shew the dream, and the inshall be made a dunghill: But terpretation thereof, ye shall regreat honour: therefore shew me ceive of me gifts and rewards, and the dream, and the interpretation thereof. They answered again, servants the dream, and we will and said, Let the king tell his shew the interpretation of it. The king answered and said I know of certainty that ye would thing is gone from me. But if yo gain the time, because ye see the you; for ye have prepared lying will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for me, till the time be changed: and corrupt words to speak before therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a mi upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is astrologer, or Chaldean. And such things at any magician, no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked quireth; and there is none other is a rare thing that the king rethat can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. For this cause stroy all the wise men of Babylon. furious, and commanded to dethe king was angry and very And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. I a decree to bring in all the wise THE TRUE INTERPRETA- ledge and skill in all learning and Daniel 1, 17. As for these four wisdom to Arioch the captain of Arioch the king's captain, Why the decree so hasty from the Ing? Then Arioch made the Ling known to Daniel. Then Daniel went in, and desired of e king that he would give him me, and that he would shew the ag the interpretation. Therere Daniel went in unto Arioch, hom the king had ordained to stroy the wise men of Babyn: he went and said thus nto him, Destroy not the wise es of Babylon: bring me in bere the king, and I will shew to the king the interpretation. ben Arioch brought in Daniel fore the king in haste, and said as unto him, I have found a an of the captives of Judah that it make known unto the king - interpretation. The king anered and said to Daniel, whose me was Belteshazzar, Art thou de to make known unto me the eam which I have seen, and the terpretation thereof? Daniel anered in the presence of the ng, and said, The secret which e king bath demanded cannot A wise men, the astrologers, the agicians, the soothsayers, shew to the king, But there is a God heaven that revealeth secrets, d maketh known to the king buchadnezzar what shall be in latter days. Thy dream, and ⚫ visions of thy head upon thy 4, are these; As for thee, O g, thy thoughts came into thy nd upon thy bed what should me to pass hereafter; and he it revealeth secrets maketh thy father, made master of the reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. to pass at the time that the cattle Gen. xxxi, 10, 11. And it came eyes, and saw in a dream, and, beconceived, that I lifted up mine hold, the upon the cattle were ring-straked, rams which leaped speckled, and grisled. And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob. And I said, Here am I. LABAN. Laban the Syrian in a dream by Gen. xxxi, 24. And God came to night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. JOSEPH. Gen. xxxvii, 5-10. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round INSTANCES IN SCRIPTURE. about, and made obeisance to my ABIMELECH. Gen. xx, 3-8. But God came to own to thee what shall come to and said to him, Behold, thou art Abimelech in a dream by night, . But as for me, this secret but a dead man, for the woman not revealed to me for any wis-which thou hast taken; for she is m that I have more than any a man's wife. But Abimelech had ing, but for their sakes that ill make known the interpreta- not come near her: and he said, a to the king, and that thou LORD, wilt thou slay also a rightegbtest know the thoughts of ous nation? Said he not unto me, heart. This is the dream; she herself said, He is my brother. She is my sister? and she, even 1 we will tell the interpretation In the integrity of my heart, and reof before the king. innocency of my hands, have I done this. And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine. Theretore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. Dan. iv, 8, 9. But at the t Daniel came in before me, hose name was Belteshazzar, ording to the name of my 1, and in whom is the spirit of holy gods,) and before him I d the dream, saying, O Beltezzar, master of the magicians, Cause I know that the spirit of holy gods is in thee, and no ret troubleth thee, tell me the tons of my dream that I have , and the interpretation there Dan. v, 11-14, 16, 17. There is in thy kingdom in whom is spirit of the holy gods: and, in days of thy father, light and derstanding, and wisdom, like wisdom of the gods, was found him; whom the king Nebuchadzzar thy father, the king, I say, sheaf. And his brethren said to over us? or shalt thou indeed him, Shalt thou indeed reign they hated him yet the more for have dominion over us? And And he dreamed yet another his dreams, and for his words. dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun, and the moon, and the eleven he told it to his father, and to his stars, made obeisance to me. And brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I, and thy mother, and thy brethren, indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? THE CHIEF BUTLER. Gen. xl, 9--13. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup said unto him, This is the interinto Pharaoh's hand. And Joseph pretation of it: The three branches are three days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place; and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former mauner when thou wast his butler. THE CHIEF BAKER. Gen. xl, 16-19. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head. basket there was of all manner of And in the uppermost bake-meats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. terpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise, for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. SOLOMON. 1 Kings iii, 5, 8-15. In Gibe the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God, Ask what I shall give thee, And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a Give therefore thy servant an USgreat people, that cannot be nu bered nor counted for maltitude. derstanding heart to judgethypes ple, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able la judge this thy so great a people And the speech pleased the Low, that Solomon had asked this thing And God said unto him, Beca thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed, and well-favoured; and they fed in a meadow: And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. And when they had eaten them up, it could them; but they were still ill-fanot be known that they had eaten voured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. And I saw in my dream, in and, behold, seven ears came up one stalk, full and good: And, behold,seven ears, withered, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me. And Jo-life; neither hast asked richest thine enemies; but hast asked ir Gen. xl, 21, 22. And he restored seph said unto Pharaoh, The thyself, nor hast asked the fed dream of Pharaoh is one: God the chief butler unto his butler-bath shewed Pharaoh what he is thyself understanding to dis ship again; and he gave the cup about to do. The seven good judgment; Behold, I have d into Pharaoh's hand: But he hang-kine are seven years; and the given thee a wise and as according to thy words: le, I kum ed the chief baker, as Joseph had seven good ears are seven years: derstanding heart; so that thes interpreted to them. the dream is one. And the seven was none like thee before the neither after thee shall any ar like unto thee. And I have als given thee that which thou ha not asked, both riches and bo so that there shall not be among the kings like unto the all thy days. And if thet w walk in my ways, to keep my tutes and my commandments thy father David did walk, that will lengthen thy days. And lomon awoke; and, behold, 8 x Gen. xll, 11-13. And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he: we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams: to each man according to his dream he did interpret. And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. PHARAOH. Gen. xli, 1-7, 17-32. And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed; and, behold, he stood by the river. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well-favoured kine, and fat-fleshed; and they fed in a meadow. Aud, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine, upon the brink of the river. And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the .seven well-favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. And he slept, and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And, behold, seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And Pharaoh said thin and ill-favoured kine that MIDIANITE Soldier. a dream. NEBUCHADNEZZAR Dan. 11, 1, 31-45. And in second year of the reign of Nebuchadnes buchadnezzar, dreamed dreams, wherewith i spirit was troubled, and bis s brake from him. Thou, 0 sawest, and behold a great imys This great image, whose bri ness was excellent, stood be thee; and the form thereal en Jud. vii, 13-15. And when terrible. This image's bead Gideon was come, behold, there of fine gold, his breast and was a man that told a dream unto arms of silver, his belly and ta his fellow, and said, Behold, I thighs of brass, His legs of dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake his feet part of iron and p Thou sawest till that of barley bread tumbled into the of clay. host of Midian, and came unto a a stone was cut out a tent, and smote it that it fell, and hands, which smole the overturned it, that the tent lay upon his feet that were of along. And his fellow answered and clay, and brake them & and said, This is nothing else save pieces. Then was the tr the sword of Gideon the son of clay, the brass, the silver, and Joash, a man of Israel: for into gold, broken to pieces toge his hand hath God delivered and became like the chaff Midian, and all the host, And it summer thrashing-floors, was so, when Gideon heard the wind carried them away telling of the dream, and the in-place was found for the the stone that smote the image | visions of mine head in my bed: I became a great mountain, and saw, and behold a tree in the alled the whole earth. Thou, midst of the earth, and the height O king, art a king of kings: thereof was great. The tree for the God of heaven hath given grew, and was strong, and the bee a kingdom, power, and height thereof reached unto heastrength, and glory. And where- ven, and the sight thereof to the Dever the children of men dwell, end of all the earth. The leaves be beasts of the field, and the thereof were fair, and the fruit owls of the heaven, hath he given thereof much, and in it was meat nto thine hand, and hath made for all: the beasts of the field had tee ruler over them all. Thou shadow under it, and the fowls of ort this head of gold. And after the heaven dwelt in the boughs bee shall arise another kingdom thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. oferior to thee, and another third I saw in the visions of my head ingdom of brass, which shall upon my bed, and, behold, a ear rule over all the earth. And watcher and an holy one came be fourth kingdom shall be strong down from heaven: He cried s iron: forasmuch as iron break- aloud, and said thus, Hew down th in pieces and subdueth all the tree, and cut off his branches, Mings; and as iron that breaketh shake off his leaves, and scatter il these, shall it break in pieces his fruit: let the beasts get away nd bruise. And whereas thou from under it, and the fowls from awest the feet and toes, part of his branches: Nevertheless, leave otter's clay, and part of iron, the the stump of his roots in the ingdom shall be divided; but earth, even with a band of iron bere shall be in it of the strength and brass, in the tender grass of of the iron, forasmuch as thou the field; and let it be wet with awest the iron mixed with miry the dew of heaven, and let his day. And as the toes of the feet portion be with the beasts in the ere part of iron, and part of clay; grass of the earth: Let his heart the kingdom shall be partly be changed from man's, and let a trong, and partly broken. And beast's heart be given unto him; hereas thou sawest iron mixed and let seven times pass over ith miry clay, they sball mingle him. This matter is by the debemselves with the seed of men; cree of the watchers, and the at they shall not cleave one to demand by the word of the holy nother, even as iron is not mixed ones; to the intent that the living ith clay. And in the days of may know that the most High bese kings shall the God of hea- ruleth in the kingdom of men, en set up a kingdom, which shall and giveth it to whomsoever he ever be destroyed: and the king-will, and setteth up over it the lom shall not be left to other basest of men. This dream I king eople, but it shall break in pieces Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now ad consume all these kingdoms, thou, O Belteshazzar, declare nd it shall stand for ever. For- the interpretation thereof, forassmuch as thou sawest that the much as all the wise men of my tone was cut out of the mountain kingdom are not able to make vithout hands, and that it brake known unto me the interpretation: pieces the iron, the brass, the but thou art able; for the spirit of lay, the silver, and the gold; the the holy gods is in thee. Then Teat God hath made known to Daniel (whose name was Beltehe king what shall come to pass shazzar) was astonied for ereafter: and the dream is cer- hour, and his thoughts troubled ain, and the interpretation thereof him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was 725 jure. Dan. iv, 4, 5, 10-24. I NebuchadJezzar was at rest in mine house, ind flourishing in my palace: I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Thus were the one strong, whose height reached unto the beaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earthi. And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field till seven times pass over him; This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king. DANIEL. Dan. vii, 1. In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. WISE MEN. Matth. ii, 12. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. JOSEPH. Matth. 11, 13. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying. Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. PILATE'S WIFE. Matth. xxvii, 19. When he was set down on the judgment-seat his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him |