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The studies in The Symbolism of Scripture, What Men Make, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Symbolism of Scripture, What Men Make holds 22 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in one kind.
- 22 studies ask what one word or picture carries wherever Scripture uses it.
The studies by kind
Symbols and words
A picture or a word traced across the canon, from its first mention to the place it comes to rest.
22 studies, 0 as cards, 22 in the register
The register: 22 studies of this kind
- Blue, Purple and Scarlet
- Gold, Silver, Bronze & IronScripture uses four metals: gold, silver, bronze and iron: and it uses them in a fixed order.
- Precious Stones
- Sackcloth
- The Altar
- The CrownThe crown is Scripture's picture of honour conferred.
- The Furnace & the Refiner's FireA furnace is fire with walls around it and a job to do.
- The Garment and the Robe
- The HornThe horn is Scripture's picture of strength, specifically the kind of strength that pushes, the way a bull or a ram uses its head.
- The KeyThe key is a small symbol with a single meaning: the authority to open and shut.
- The Name
- The Right HandIn Scripture the right hand is the strong side and the favoured side, and it is used two ways: God's own right hand acting in power, and a place beside Him that somebody is given.
- The Rod and the Staff
- The Sceptre
- The Scroll & the BookA scroll in Scripture is what has been written down and therefore cannot be argued with.
- The Seal & the SignetA seal in the ancient world is a signature, not a fastening.
- The SwordThe sword is Scripture's picture of division and judgment, something that separates, decisively and without appeal.
- The ThroneThe throne is Scripture's picture of settled authority, not the display of power but the place decisions are made.
- The Trumpet & the Shofar
- The Whole ArmourEphesians 6:10-18 is one sentence about equipment, and almost everything in it is borrowed.
- The YokeThe yoke is Scripture's picture of being under something: slavery, foreign rule, a king's taxes, the law's demands, or a Master's teaching.
- White
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The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.