ons being turned into serpents, or the people being produced from serpents'

teeth.

HOARY; whitish, as the head of an old man, Job xxxviii. 29. and xli. 32. Lev. xix. 32.

they are like God in their nature, haters of sin, and set apart by God and. themselves to his service, Rev. xviii. 20. The third person of the Godhead is called holy, because he is holy in nature, and gives holiness to men, HOBAB, the son of Jethro, and Acts x. 38. Preserve my soul, for I brother-in-law to Moses. As the am holy ; i. e. innocent of what is laid Hebrews were on the point of leaving to my charge; favoured of God, and mount Sinai, Hobab came to visit benevolent to men, Psal. lxxxvi. 2. Moses, and, at his entreaty, went a-(2.) What is set apart to the service long with Israel, Numb. x. 29. Some think that the Kenites were his descendants.

of God: so the Hebrews, the Levites, priests, tabernacle, temple, Jerusalem, Zion, sacrifices, oil, days, &c. are called holy, Numb. xv. 40. and xviii. 17. The inmost apartment

HOLD. See FORT. TO HOLD; (1.) 'To keep fast, Gen. xxi. 18. (2.)||Jer. xi. 15. To restrain, Psal. xxxii. 9. Rev. vii. 1.of the tabernacle, or temple was calGod's not holding men guiltless, is to led the holy of holies, or the holy place, account them, and deal with them, as or most holy place; and some parts guilty, Exod. xx. 7. He holds his of the offering are called most holy, as people by their right hand; keeps, they were not to be eaten but by the strengthens, and comforts them un-priests in the holy place, Exod. xxviii. der their weakness, Psal. Ixxiii. 23.39. Lev. x. 18. Heaven is a holy To take hold of God, and his covenant, place: separated to be the peculiar is to embrace him as given in the residence of God, and of his holy angospel; and by faith to plead his pro-gels and saints; and into it enters nomises and relations, Isa. Ixiv. 7. and thing that defileth, Isa. Ivii. 15. Heb. lvi. 4. Christians hold forth the word ix. 12. Israel was holiness to the Lord; of life; they, by practising it in their they were separated to his service, lives, give light and instruction to o- and made a fair shew of holiness and thers, Phil. ii. 16. Their not holding || purity, at their coming out of Egypt, of Christ the head, is their neglecting || Jer. ii. 3. to draw gracious influence from him, and to yield due subjection to him; and their admitting saints and angels as mediators in his stead, Col.naan; and so it is represented as a land ii. 19. flowing with milk and honey. There bees deposited their honey in rocks, Deut. xxxii. 13; or on trees, 1 Sam. xiv. 26. John Baptist lived in the desart on locusts and wild honey, Matth. iii. 4; and butter and honey were common fare, Isa. vii. 15. To restrain the Hebrews from imitating the Heathens, who used the honey in their sacrifices, and to represent the im propriety of carnal pleasure in God's worship, they were prohibited to use honey in their sacrifices, Lev. ii. 11. Whatever is sweet, delightful, and

HOMER; the same measure as the con, Isa. v. 10.

HONEY much abounded in Ca

HOLY. (1.) What is free from, and opposite to sin. God is the holy One of Israel; he is infinitely free from, and opposite to, every thing sinful. He only is holy; he alone is infinitely and independently holy, and is the author of all holiness, that is to be found among angels and men, -Lev. xix. 2. Isa. i. 4. I Sam. ii. 2. Christ is God's holy One, holy Child; infinitely boly as God, perfectly pure as man, Psal. xvi. 10. and lxxxix. 19; but, in the last text, some think Samuel is meant, to whom God reveal-medicinal, is likened to honey; as the ed his intention of setting up David. Good angels and saints are holy

word of God, Psal. xix. 10. and cxix, 103; the prayers, praises, and edify

allusion hereto, he is called an horn of|| in Longobards; and the Greeks in salvation, 1 Kings ii. 28. Luke i. 69: the eastern part of the empire. Bishop and his having seven horns, denotes Lloyd ranks them according to the the perfection of his power and au- time of their settlement into states, thority, Rev. v. 6. The horns coming thus: the Huns, about A. D. 356 ; out of God's hand, wherein was the Ostrogoths, 377; Visogoths, 378; hiding of his power, are the rays of the Franks, 407; the Vandals, 407; glorious brightness that attended him the Burgundians, 407; the Heruli at Sinai, and the mighty displays of and Rugians, 476; the Longobards his power, in which his might was in Hungary, 526. Sir Isaac Newton nevertheless but very partially dis- ranks them thus: the kingdoms of the played, Hab. iii. 4. Vandals and Alans, in Africa and Spain; of the Suevians, in Spain; of the Visogoths, of the Alans, in Gaul, or France; of the Burgundians, of the Franks, of the Britons, of the Huns, of the Lombards; and, finally, the exarchate of Ravenna. According to Bishop Newton they stood thus, in the eighth century: the senate of Rome; the Greek state of Ravenna; the Lombards; the Huns; the Alemans; the Franks; the Burgundians; the Goths; the Britons ; the Saxons. The frequent convulsions of these states, occasions their being differently reckoned; and it is observable, that almost ever since, there have been ten principal states ; and though they had not been alway

Horns also signify kings and kingdoms; the two horns of Daniel's visionary ram, are the united kingdoms of Media and Persia; the notable horn of his he-goat between his eyes, is Alexander the first king of all Greece, amid his sagacious generals: the four horns coming after it, are the four kingdoms into which the Grecian empire was divided after his death, viz. Egypt, Syria, Thrace, and Greece; the little horn that sprung out of one of them, is Antiochus Epiphanes, who, from the contemptible rise of a base person, and Roman hostage, rose to so much power, and did so much mischief in Egypt and Judea; or Antichrist, Dan. viii. The ten crowned horns of the Romish em-ten, they might be called ten frora pire, and of Antichrist, are the ten toes, or kingdoms, into which the Romish empire was at last divided, and over which the Pope extends his influence. In Bishop Chandler's list, these ten stand thus: the Ostrogoths, in Mæsia; the Visogoths, in Panonia, or Hungary; the Suevior Alans, in Gascoigne and Spain; the Vandals, in Africa; the Franks, in France; the Burgundi, in Burgundy; the Heruli and Thuringi, in Italy; the Saxons and Angles, in Britain; the Huns, in Hungary; and the Lombards, on the banks of the Danube, and afterward in Italy. Mede says, they stood thus: in A. D. 456, the Britons, the Saxons, both in Britain: the Franks, the Burgundians, the Visogoths, the Suevi and Alans, the Vandals, the Alemans, in Germany the Ostrogoths, and their successors

their original form. At present, we may reckon them thus: the states of Italy; the two Sicilies; Portugal; France; Spain; Britain; Holland; Germany; Switzerland; Hungary; for Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, did not pertain to the ancient Roman empire. The horn with eyes, and a look more stout than his fellows, and who pluckt up three horns, is the crafty Romish Pope, whose high pretensions to authority are superior to that of earthly princes, and who has often deposed and excommunicated them; and who, quickly after his rise, got himself made master of three sovereignties; of the dukedom of Rome, the exarchate of Ravenna, and the region of Pentapolis, Dan. vii. 20-26. Rev. xii. 3. and xiii. 1. and xvii. 3, 7, 12. Antichrist's twe horns as a lamb, may denote his civil

and ecclesiastic power, or his power || strength, and fitness for burden, of binding and loosing church-cen- draught, or war, Job xxxix. 19-25. sures. But perhaps this beast with God prohibited the Hebrews to multhe two horns, may denote the papal tiply horses: he ordered Joshua to power of monasteries; as the first hough, hamstring, or cut the sinews with the ten, may denote the power of the legs of all the horses of the Caas resident in the Pope and his coun- naanites, and to burn their chariots cils, Rev. xiii. 11. The four horns with fire: the design of which laws that scattered Judah, were their ene- no doubt were, to prevent their cormies from every airth, particularly respondence with foreigners, or trustthe Ammonites, Arabs, Samaritans, ing in war to their chariots and horsePhilistines, and Syro-grecians, Zech. men, Deut. xvii. 16. Josh. xi. 6. In i. 21. this manner, David served the horses HORNETS; a kind of bees, with and chariots of Hadadezer the Syrian, a black breast, and double black spots; 2 Sam. viii. 4, 5. Solomon having they are very troublesome and mis- married the daughter of Pharaoh, chievous; their stings are attended || procured a fine breed of horses from with great pain and inflammation, and Egypt, some of them at the rate of even danger of death. It seems that 600 shekels of silver, which, accordgreat swarms of them plagued the ing to Prideaux, is $400; and acCanaanites in the days of Joshua,cording to Arbuthnot, whom we folDeut. vii. 20. Josh. xxiv. 12. Elian low, $ 304 22, 1 Kings x. 26. tells us, that the Phaselites, who dwelt first of the Hebrews began to multiabout the mountains of Solyma, were ply horses, and had 4000 stables, driven out of their native country by 40,000 stalls, and 12,000 horsemen, wasps. As these Phaselites were 1 Kings iv. 26. 2 Chron. ix. 25. As Phoenicians, or Canaanites, it is pro- the eastern Heathens, who worshipbable, this event is the same as took ped the sun, imagined, that he rode place in the days of Joshua.* along the sky in a chariot drawn with fleet horses, to communicate his light and warmth to mankind, they conse crated to him the finest steeds, or chariots: with these, they either rode to the eastern gates of the city as the sun rose, or they held them so sacred, that none might ride on them. Josiah removed from the Jewish temple the horses, or images of horses, which his father or grandfather had conse crated to the sun, 2 Kings xxiii. 17. Horses are sometimes put for warriors on horseback, Ezek. xxxix. 12.

HORRIBLE; dreadfully hateful and affrighting: so great and aggravated wickedness is horrible, Jer. v. 30. Hos. vi. 10. Fearful affliction or punishment is horrible, Psal. xl. 2. and xi. 6. HORROR, is such excessive fear and terror, as almost makes one's hair to stand on end, Psal. lv. 5. and cxix. 53.

HORSE; one of the noblest animals of the brute kind, noted for comeliness, swiftness, pride, wantonness, natural fierceness, tameableness,

He

God's instruments of accomplishing his purpose, and displaying his greatness and might, are represented * God could make the hornets drive out the Canaanites before his people, as well as his horses, or chariots, Zech. x. 5. as lions, Exod. xxiii. 28. Josh. xxiv. 12. and xii. 4. Jer. li. 21, White horses, It is said, that a Christian city being be- denote the gospel, whereby Christ sieged by Sapores king of Persia, was de-shews his glory, conquers, and comes livered by hornets: for the elephants and to his people, and whereby they are other beasts, being stung by them, became outrageous and put his army into such supported, borne forward in their headisorder, that he was forced to raise the venly journey, and enabled to conquer siege. their foes; or they may be an emblem

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