SNAIL, a slimy reptile with a shell on
its back, Lev. 11:3. As snails waste
themselves by their own motion, so do
the wicked in their irreligious courses,
Psal. 58:8.
SNARE, a trap or net to catch birds or
fishes, Prov. 7:23; Job 40:24: that
which hinders or entangles for hurt,
Judg. 8:27: evil example, Josh. 23:
13; Psal. 106:36: an occasion of sin or
misery, 1 Cor. 7:35; 2 Tim. 2:26. God
rains snares on men when He allows their
sins to bring distress upon them,
Psal.
11:6.
SNATCH, to seize greedily, Isa. 9:20.
SNORTING, the noise of well-fed horses,
especially in order of battle, Jer. 8:16.
SNOUT, the nose of a beast, Prov. 11:
22.
SNOW, frozen vapours falling in white
flakes: though not common in Palestine,
it sometimes falls on the mountain regions
in very large flakes, from which the ex-
pression "He giveth snow like wool,"
Psal. 147:16; 68:14[;] Jer. 18:14.
Various allusions are made to snow by
the sacred writers, on account of its
whiteness and purity, especially as the
emblem of holiness, Psal. 51:7; Isa. 1:18;
Lam. 4:7.
SNOWY, having snow, 1 Chron. 11:22.
SNUFF, to draw in the breath as a
beast, Jer. 2:24; 14:6: to express con-
tempt, Mal. 1:13.
SNUFF-DISHES, trays for holding the
sacred snuffers and the snuffs of the
lamps, Exod. 25:28; Num. 4:9.
SNUFFERS, a kind of tongs for trim-
ming the sacred lamps, Exod. 37:38;
2 Kings 12:13.
SOCKET, a hollow foot in which the end
of a pillar may be fixed, Exod. 38:
27. Vast numbers of sockets were re-
quired for the extensive frame-work of
the tabernacle, some of which were of
brass and others of silver, 26:19; 27:
10.
SOD, did seethe, boil, or stew, Gen. 25:
29; 2 Chron. 35:13.
SODERING, fastening parts together
with metallic cement: gold and silver
idols were thus put together by a process
in the fire, Isa. 41:7.
SOD'OM, [h] (their secret or their
cement),
the capital city of a district on the south-
east of Canaan. Beauty and fertility
distinguished this region, through which
the Jordan flowed, and therefore it was
chosen as his residence by Lot the nephew
of Abraham, Gen. 13:10, 13. But
irre-
ligion and crime prevailed fearfully
in
Sodom, so that God destroyed it by fire
from heaven, with three neighbouring
cities, equally corrupt, Gomorrah,
Admah,
and Zeboim, 18:20; 19:24, 25; Deut.
29:23. This direful visitation of the
Divine wrath caused the waters of the
Jordan to overflow and stagnate upon
the ruins, thus forming the sea of the
plain, or salt sea, usually called the
Dead
sea, Gen. 14:3; Deut. 3:17; Josh. 15:5.
Vol. describes the district of Sodom
thus :--"The south of Syria, that is, the
hollow through which the Jordan flows,
is a country of volcanoes; the bituminous
and sulphureous resources of the lake As-
phaltites, the lava, the pumice-stones
thrown upon its banks, and the hot baths
of Tabaria, demonstrate that this valley
has been the seat of a subterraneous fire,
which is not yet extinguished. Clouds
of smoke are often observed to issue from
the lake, and new crevices to be formed
upon its banks. If conjectures in such
cases were not too liable to error, we
might suspect that the whole valley has
been formed only by a violent sinking of
a country which formerly poured the
Jordan into the Mediterranean." This
description, by a modern infidel, confirms
the language of Moses, Deut. 29:23.
Sod_m's Sin. Tract.
e.g. San Francisco, Washington, D.C., etc.
SOFT, moist, as the ground after rain,
Psal. 65:10. A soft heart is humble
and penitent, Job 23:16. A soft
tongue
is mild in expression, Prov. 15:1; 25:15.
Soft clothing is costly raiment, Matt. 11:8.
SOJOURN, to dwell in a country with-
out, a fixed habitation, Gen. 12:10; 47:
4; Ruth 1:1.
SOJOURNED, did sojourn, or dwell for
a time, Gen. 20:1; 35:27; Heb. 11:9.
SOJOURNER, a stranger or visitor, Gen.
23:4. Such is every true Christian in
this world having his everlasting habi-
tation and home in Heaven, Psal.
39:
12; Heb. 11:13, 16.
SOJOURNING, the act of dwelling in a
country without being settled in a habi-
tation, Judg. 19:1. The time of the
sojourning of the Israelites is said to
have been 430 years, Exod. 12:40: but
this includes the period from the call of
Abraham to leave Ur of the Chaldees, to
become a sojourner, to the emancipation
of Israel from Egypt, Gen. 15:13; Acts
7:1; Gal. 3:17.
SOLACE, to cheer, to delight, Prov. 7:
18.
SOLD, did sell, Gen. 25:33; 47:20,
22: did engage, as Ahab to work iniquity,
1 Kings 21:20.
SOLD, disposed of for a price, Lev. 25:
25: burdened, Rom. 7:14.
SOL'OMON, [h] (peaceable,
perfect, or that recompenses). Solomon was the son of David by Bathsheba, born in the year
B.C. 1033. At his birth the prophet Nathan was inspired to declare that the
Lord loved him, and to call him Jedidiah,
or Beloved of the Lord, 2 Sam. 12:24,
25. Solomon was educated for the throne
of Israel: he was favoured with extra-
ordinary intellectual endowments; and
his fame was spread through the sur-
rounding countries for wisdom and pru-
dence, in which he exceeded all the sages
of the East and of Egypt. Solomon
enjoyed universal peace, reigning over
the several countries from the Nile to
the Euphrates; and foreigners flocked
to hear his discourses on the various
works of God: his songs were above one
thousand, and his proverbs were three
thousand. He commenced his reign by
a sacrifice of a thousand burnt-offerings
which were accepted of God, who favoured
him with visions. He erected the mag-
nificent temple of Jehovah, and
flourished
in unexampled prosperity, riches, and
glory: but his excessive indulgences led
him to establish idolatry for the gratifi-
cation of his thousand heathenish wives
and concubines, who drew him to comply
with their blasphemous abominations, by
which he provoked the LORD. Solomon
appears to have returned to the LORD
by repentance; and his books of Proverbs
and Ecclesiastes are evident proofs of
his
sincerity; still the deplorable effects of
his iniquities were seen in the dissolution
of the nation, under his foolish son Reho-
boam, and in a long series of calamities
to Israel. Every Christian should study
the various records of the deeply instruc-
tive history of Solomon, 1 Kings 1:11; 11:
1 Chron. 22.; 29.; 2 Chron. 1.; 9.
SOME, a few of a number, Gen. 33:
15: a part of the whole, Lev. 4:7.
SOMEBODY, one body, Luke 8:46: a
person of dignity or worth, Acts 5:36.
SOMETHING, a thing of any sort, as a
piece of money, John 13:29; a portion
of food, Mark 5:43: a calamity, 1 Sam.
20:26: information, Acts 23:15, 18: a
person of consequences, Gal. 6:3.
SOMETIMES, formerly, Eph. 2:13: a
certain time, 1 Pet. 3:20.
SON OF GOD, one created
of God, as Adam, Luke 3:38: an angel, Job 1:1;
38:7: a regenerated
person bearing
the moral image of God and adopted
into
the family of God, John 1:12; Rom. 8:
14; 1 John 3:1. Professors of the true religion are called sons of God, Gen.
6:
2-4.
SON OF GOD, a title of our Lord and Saviour. Christ is regarded as the Son
of God, by the miraculous production
of
his human nature of the virgin Mary,
Luke 1:36: by His commission as sent of
God, John 10:36: by His
resurrection, as
the first-born from the dead, Acts 13:
33: by actual possession of all things as
the appointed heir, Heb. 1:2, 5: by an
ineffable generation, John 3:16; Rom.
8:3, 32; 1 John 4:9.
SONG, a hymn or
psalm, Exod. 15:1;
2 Sam. 22:1; Rev. 5:9: a poem for
popular use by repetition, as that pre-
pared by Moses for the Israelites, Deut.
31:19, 30: the subject of a song, Exod.
2:2; Psal. 69:12.
SOON, early, Exod. 2:18: in a short
time, Deut. 4:26: quickly, Prov. 14:
17; Tit. 1:7.
SOONER, in a shorter time, Heb. 13:19.
SOOTHSAYER, a prognosticator, magi-
cian, astrologer, or fortune-teller, Dan. 2:
27; 5:7; Exod. 7:11. These pretenders
were generally a class of the heathen
priests, and they abounded in all pagan
nations, practising upon the credulity of
the ignorant people.
SOOTHSAYING, pretending to foretel
future events, Acts 16:16.
SOP, a piece of bread or other food
steeped in liquor, John 13:26 [juice].
SOUGHT, did seek, Exod. 2:15; 1 Sam.
10:21; Luke 2:44.
SOUL, the human
mind; the vital,
immaterial, active substance in man, by
which he understands, remembers,
rea-
sons, and wills: it is the immediate pro-
duction of God, partaking of his spiritual
nature, created originally in his moral
image, in knowledge, righteousness, and
true holiness, Gen. 1:26; 2:7; Eccles. 3:
21; 12:7; Matt. 10:28; 22:37. This
intelligent noble distinction of man con-
stituted its likeness to God, and its
accountability to its Creator; but the fall of Adam defaced
the Divine image:
and though it still possesses its physical
powers of understanding will, and affec-
tions, they are corrupted by sin, and
every unregenerated soul cherishes en-
mity against the moral character of the
blessed God. "[S]pirit and soul and
body[,]"
1 Thess. 5:23, intend, by the spirit, the
rational mind, which man possesses in
common with angels; and, by soul and
body, the animal faculties and parts which
we possess in common with brutes.
SOUL. The importance of your
soul.
Booklet: How To Find God.
SOUL is used also for a person, Gen. 12:
5; 14:21; Acts 2:43: life, Psal. 7:5;
23:3: affection, Gen. 34:8: appe-
tite, Prov. 6:30; 1 Sam. 18:1: a dead body, it having been the residence of the
soul, Psal. 16:10: so Num. 6:6; 9:6,
in Hebrew. Soul or spirit is used to
denote the life of a perishable animal,
Eccles. 3:21.
SPICERY, the commodity of spices, as
articles of commerce, Gen. 37:25.
SPIDER, a well-known insect, of which
there are many species, remarkable for
their webs and nests of curious texture,
Job 8:14; Isa. 59:5. Solomon is be-
lieved to have intended a small lizard
by the word rendered spider, Prov. 30:
28.
SPIRIT: God is a spirit, the self-exist-
ent, eternal, and infinitely excellent Spirit,
the Author, Source, and Preserver of all
created spirits, John 4:23, 24; Num.
16:22; Heb. 12:9.
SPIRIT OF GOD, God Himself, the
Deity, Job 27:3; 33:4. This title
is especially applied to the Holy
Spirit,
Gen. 1:2; Exod. 31:3; Matt. 3:16;
Rom. 8:9-15. Spirit of God denotes
the extraordinary gifts of wisdom, know-
ledge, and practical skill, Exod. 31:3.
SPIRITUAL BODY, a
body adapted to
the heavenly state, as the glorified body
of the Christian at the
resurrection,
formed after the body of Christ, 1 Cor.
15:44; Phil. 3:21.
SPIRITUAL HOUSE, the regenerated
family of Christians, 1 Pet. 2:5.
SPIRITUALLY, devoutly, religiously,
Rom. 8:6: morally, or according to
the moral quality, Rev. 11:8.
SPRINKLING, scattering, as ashes, Heb.
9:13; or blood, 11:28.
SPROUT, to germinate, Job 14:7.
SPUE, to vomit, Lev. 18:28; Jer.
25:27; Rev. 3:16.
SPUN, did spin, Exod. 35:25, 26.
SPUNGE, a submarine substance, formed
by a species of worms, and most fitted of
all bodies to imbibe a large quantity of
fluid, Matt. 27:48; John 19:29.
STANDARD-BEARER, the man who car-
ries the standard before or in the midst
of a division in a camp; a leader, Isa. 10:18.
STANDING, power to stand, Mic. 1:2.
STANDING, being on the feet, 1 Sam.
22:6: being erect, Lev. 26:1: being
in the appointed station, 1 Sam. 19:20;
1 Kings 22:19: continuing, Heb. 9:8.
STANK, did stink, Exod. 7:21: became
abhorred, 2 Sam. 10:6.
STAR, a celestial luminary, 1 Cor. 15:
41. Stars, in common language, include
all the heavenly bodies except the sun
and moon: some revolve round the sun,
and are called planets and comets; others
retain the same relative distance from
the stars which surround them, and are
therefore called fixed stars. Godcreated
all these, probably [during the same week as]
that of the creation of our world,
or of the solar system, and for purposes
worthy of His infinite wisdom. God calls
them all by their names, Psal. 147:4:
but how many are the stars, no human
being knows. About a thousand are
visible to the naked eye. Tycho Brahe,
about the year 1590, gave a catalogue of
770 stars: Mr. Flamsted's telescopes
enabled him to discover about three
thousand: but Riccioli supposed there
are 400,000,000! Astronomers have cal-
culated that Sirius, or the Dog Star, is
the nearest of the fixed stars to us, and
that its distance is not less than 400,000
times greater than that of the sun; while
some of them are six hundred times more
remote than Sirius! Several thousand
years are therefore required for the light
of some of the stars to reach the earth,
although light travels at the rate of
thirteen millions of miles in a minute!
And as new stars have been discovered
within the last few years, it is thought
probable that some exist whose light
has not yet reached our world. How in-
finitely glorious therefore must be the
majesty and greatness of God the Creator!
See SUN. CONSTELLATION.
STO'ICS,
Στωικοι,
philosophers of a
Grecian sect, founded by Zeno, a native
of Cyprus, who died in the year B. C.
264: they were called Stoics from Zeno
having taught in the stoa or portico, at Athens, Acts 17:18. The Stoics
held
that God is eternal, underived, and in-
corruptible, possesses infinite wisdom and
goodness, the Creator of all things from
an original and eternal matter, and the
constant preserver and governor of the
world, yet bound by an irresistible fate.
Philosophers of this sect taught that
external evils were only imaginary; that
virtue was its own reward: some of them
held that all spirits, both of men and of
their gods, would at length be absorbed
in the Deity. Some of their notions are
absurd, while others were evidently bor-
rowed from the Old Testament.
STOLE, did steal, Gen.
31:20; Eph.
4:28: gained by corrupt means, 2 Sam.
15:16: secreted, 2 Kings 11:2.
STOLEN, taken by theft, Gen. 31:19,
30: retained fraudulently, 30:33.
STOMACH, the ventricle of digestion,
the appetite, 1 Tim. 5:23.
STOMACHER, a garment for the breast
or waist, a kind of girdle, Isa. 3:24.
STONE, to put to death by throwing
stones at a condemned person, Lev. 20:
2; 1 Kings 21:10.
STONED, did stone to death, Josh. 7:
25; 1 Kings 21:15; Acts 7:58.
STONED, killed, beaten with stones,
Exod. 19:13: persecuted with the throw-
ing of stones, Acts 14:19.
STONING, execution with the throwing
of stones, 1 Sam. 30:6.
STONY, rocky, abounding with stones,
Matt. 13:5.
STONY-HEART, a senseless impious mind, Ezek. 11:19.
STOOD, did stand, Gen. 18:22: did
flow, Josh. 3:16.
STOOD, were stationed, Isa. 6:2: con-
sisted, Heb. 9:10.
STOODEST, didst stand, Deut. 4:10.
STOOL, a seat without a back, 2 Kings
4:10.
STOOP, to bend forward, Mark 1:7:
to yield or submit, Job 9:13: to be de-
graded, Isa. 46:1.
STOOPED, did stoop, John 8:6.
STOP, to hinder, 1 Kings 18:44: to
obstruct, Psal. 35:3: to prevent, 2 Cor.
11:10.
STOPPED, closed, Gen. 8:2; Neh. 4:
7: covered or concealed, Gen. 26:15:
confounded, Tit. 1:2.
STORE, an abundance, Gen. 26:14:
a large quantity, 1 Kings 10:10; Neh. 5:
18: reserve, 1 Cor. 16:2; 2 Pet. 3:7.
STORE, to heap up, Amos 3:10.
STORE-CITIES, towns consisting of store-
houses, 1 Kings 11:19.
STORE-HOUSES, houses for the preser-
vation of corn, arms, and needful things,
Gen. 41:56; 2 Chron. 32:28.
STORIES, flights of rooms in a house,
Gen. 6:16; Ezek. 41:16.
STORK, a large bird resembling the
crane, remarkable for its annual migra-
tions, and for tenderness in supporting
its dam in decrepitude. On this account
the stork is still an object of veneration
among the common people in some parts
of Europe, Lev. 11:19; Psal. 104:17; Jer.
8:7.
STORM, a tempest, violent wind with
rain, Isa. 4:6; Mark 4:37. See
TEMPEST.
STORMY, tempestuous, violent with
wind and rain, Psal. 148:8; Ezek. 13:
11-13.
STRENGTH, vigour or power, as of the
body, 1 Sam. 28:22; Acts 3:7: of
the mind, Psal. 138:3: of a king,
Isa. 30:3: of a country, Ezek. 30:15:
of the earth, to be fruitful, Gen. 4:12. God, as the source of being
and blessed-
ness to His people, is their strength,
Exod. 15:2. Men, as guilty,
destitute of holiness, are without strength, Rom. 5:6.
STRENGTHEN, to make strong, Judg.
16:28; Neh. 6:9: to invigorate, 1 Pet.
5:10: to instruct and encourage, Luke
22:32: to repair what is decayed, Rev.
3:2.
STRENGTHENED, did strengthen, Gen.
48:2; Dan. 10:18.
STRENGTHENED, made strong, Ezra
7:28: invigorated, Col. 1:11.
STRETCH, to reach out or extend,
Exod. 7:19. To stretch out the hand
to God, is to worship, Job 11:13; Psal.
68:31: to stretch out the hand to a
person, is to afford relief, Prov. 31:20;
or to inflict evil, Acts 12:1.
SUBURBS, the environs of a city, Josh.
14:4. The tribe of Levi having no
division of the land of Canaan, had forty-
eight cities with some adjacent grounds
for them to inhabit: their grounds or
suburbs extended 1000 cubits for small
buildings, and 2000 more for gardens and
pastures, Num. 35:3-7.
SUCCEED, to come in the place of
another, Deut. 2:12; 12:29; 25:6.
SUCCOTH, a city east of Jordan allotted
to the tribe of Gad, Gen. 33:17; Josh.
13:27; Judg. 8:5.
SUCCOTH-BENOTH, [h] (the taber-
nacles of young women), tents or booths set
up by the Assyrians for the devoting of
young maidens to the licentious worship
of the false goddess Venus, 2 Kings
17:
30.
SUCCOUR, to help or relieve, 2 Sam.
8:5; Heb. 2:18.
SUCCOURED, did help or relieve, 2 Sam.
21:17; 2 Cor. 6:2.
SUCCOURER, a helper, as the generous
matron Phebe, Rom. 16:2.
SUCH, of the like kind, Gen. 4:20;
Matt. 18:5; Heb. 5:12.
SUCK, to draw in with the mouth, as
children their mother's milk, Joel 2:16;
or as eaglets the blood of prey, Job
39:30: to derive riches, as from the
treasures of the seas, Deut. 32:13. To
"suck honey out of the rock," is to enjoy
temporal prosperity, 32:13. To "suck
the milk of the Gentiles," and "the breast
of kings," is to prosper by means of foreign
commerce, Isa. 60:16.
SUCKING, nourished by its mother's
milk, as a sucking child, Num. 11:12;
or a sucking lamb, 1 Sam. 7:9.
SUCKLING, an infant nourished by the
breast, Jer. 44:7; 1 Sam. 22:9.
SUFFERINGS of Christ: those circum-
stances of humiliation, pains of body and
agonies of soul, which Christ endured in
making atonement for the sins of the
world, as our Redeemer, Phil. 3:10;
1
Pet. 1:11; Isa. 53.
SUFFICE, to satisfy the appetite, Num.
11:22: to be enough, Deut. 3:26.
SUFFICED, did satisfy, as the appetite,
Ruth 2:14: was enough, Judg. 21:14.
SUN, the glorious orb which is the
principal source of light and heat to our
earth, by the wise and powerful appoint-
ment of the Creator, Gen. 1:16.
Benefits
so many and valuable as those which we
enjoy by means of this wonderful monu-
ments of Almighty goodness, have engaged
the contemplation of the most intelligent
of mankind. Astronomers have there-
fore discovered that the sun is the centre
of a magnificent system, in which there
are numerous planets and comets per-
forming their periodical revolutions in
perfect harmony, according to the will of
the Almighty Creator. Our
distance
from the sun is estimated at about
95,000,000 of miles, and the diameter of
the sun is reckoned to exceed 800,000
miles: but the following table will aid
the reader in forming a more accurate
notion of the solar system, as a part of
THE MANIFOLD WORKS OF GOD.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE SOLAR
SYSTEM.
Names.
Periodical Revolution.
Greatest distance
from the Earth
in English miles.
Least distance
from the Earth
in English miles.
Diameter
in English
miles.
Sun
yrs. d. h. m. s.
97 [million]
93 [m]
886,473
Mercury
0 87 23 14 33
132 [m]
58 [m]
3,191
Venus
0 224 16 41 27
164 [m]
26 [m]
7,63[?]
Earth
1 0 5 48 48
-- -- --
-- -- --
7,954
Moon
0 27 7 43 5
254,084
222,920
2,172
Mars
1 321 22 18 27
241 [m]
50 [m]
4,135
Jupiter
11 315 14 39 2
592 [m]
401 [m]
86,396
Saturn
29 164 7 21 50
1,006 [m]
815 [m]
79,405
Saturn's King
29 164 7 21 50
1,006 [m]
815 [m]
185,280
Herschel
83 294 8 39 0
1,918 [m]
1,727 [m]
34,457
Ceres
-- -- -- -- --
345 [m]
155 [m]
1,624
Pallas
-- -- -- -- --
365 [m]
175 [m]
2,000
Juno
-- -- -- -- --
385 [m]
190 [m]
1,425
Vesta
-- -- -- -- --
unknown.
unknown.
unknown.
Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, were
all discovered at the beginning of the
nineteenth century; our knowledge of
them is therefore but imperfect. Igno-
rance and superstition have led mul-
titudes of the heathen to pay divine
honours to the sun: hence he was wor-
shipped by the ancients under the names
of Baal, Chemosh,
Moloch, Phebus, Fire,
and the King of heaven, as the moon was
called the Queen, Jer. 7:18; 44:17,
18.
Three miraculous events are related
regarding the sun: that it stood still for
a day at the command of Joshua, Josh.
10:
12, 13: that it returned back in the time
of Hezekiah, 2 Kings 20:9-11: that it
was involved in darkness at the cruci-
fixion of Christ, Matt. 27:45.
Divine
inspiration refers to the sun as furnish-
ing the most noble similitudes, besides
giving to the Messiah the title of the
"Sun of Righteousness," Mal. 4:2.
His
illustrious and glorious reign is said to
"continue as long as the sun," Psal. 72:
17; 89:36; and under his influence,
wisdom and knowledge shall so greatly
increase, that the intelligence and happi-
ness of the world are signified by the
light of the moon being equal to the light
of the sun, and the light of the sun being
seven times more than ordinary, Isa. 30:
26. "A woman clothed with the sun
having the moon under her feet," repre-
sents [National Israel] clothed with the
righteousness and grace of Christ, rising
superior to the attractive glories of this
sublunary world, Rev. 12:1. See STAR.
SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, a title of Messiah, employed to denote the bene-
ficial influence of His divine doctrine and
grace, in the illumination of the world,
and in saving all who become obedient
to the ordinances of Christ, Mal.
4:2.
SUNDER, division, separation, or parts,
Isa. 27:9; Nah. 1:13; Luke 12:26.
SUNDERED, separated, Job 41:17.
SUNDRY, several or various, Heb. 1:
1.
SUNG, did sing, Ezra 3:11; Matt.
26:30.
SUP, to take an evening meal, Luke
17:8: to destroy or consume, Hab. 1:9.
Christ offering to sup with His people,
denotes the communication of blessings
to the obedient believer, Rev. 3:20.
SUPERFLUITY, an overflow: "super-
fluity of naughtiness," denotes the over-
flowing of unholy affections and passions,
Jam. 1:21.
SUPERSCRIPTION, the writing on a
thing, as on a coin, Matt. 22:20: the
writing over a suffering prisoner, stating
the accusation against him: such a writing
was made by Pilate regarding Christ, and
exhibited in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin,
Matt. 15:2; John 19:19-22.
SUPERSTITION, false religion, as the
extravancies of idolatry were, and as the
Roman governor regarded even the reli-
gion of the Jews and of Paul, Acts 17:
22; 25:19.
SUPPER, the Lord's, the principal sym-
bolical ordinance of Christianity, so called
because, consisting of bread and [juice], it
was instituted in the evening, after the
commemoration of the Passover supper,
by our Lord with His apostles.
This
[church] ordinance is to be [seriously]
observed by the [baptized] disciples of Christ, as
the appointed memorial of His body and
blood sacrificed for our redemption, by
the doctrines of which our minds are
nourished and excited to duty, as our
bodies are fed by the bread and [juice].
The Lord's supper was observed by the
first Christians at [some] of their solemn
meetings, especially on [Tues]day,
Matt. 26:26, 36; 1 Cor. 11:20, 30; Acts
20:7. Besides the "Lord's supper[,]"
this
ordinance is called the "breaking of
bread," Acts 2:42; "the feast," 1 Cor.
5:[8];
and the "communion[:]" but
several others
have been added by designing teachers,
representing its table as an altar,
its
symbols as a sacrifice or sacrament, and
its ministers as priests, to the
fearful
injury of the cause of religion and
the
perversion of Christianity.
SUPPER, The Lord's. To be
scriptural: unleavened bread and grape juice. Tract &
List: New Testament Church.
SURELY, certainly, Gen. 2:17; 50:24:
confidently, Heb. 6:14.
SURETISHIP, the obligation of a surety,
Prov. 11:15.
SURETY, certainty, Gen. 15:13; Acts
12:11: one who undertakes to discharge
the obligations of another, Gen. 43:9;
Prov. 11:15.
SURETY, Christ, as the surety of the
better testament, undertook to render a
perfect obedience to the law of God and
to satisfy the claims of divine justice,
thereby making an atonement for sinners,
and to preserve believers in their
course
of holiness to everlasting glory and im-
mortality, Heb. 7:22.
SYCHEM, Sychar, or Shechem, Acts 7:
16. See SHECHEM.
SYE'NE, [h] (a bush), a fortified
place
or city on the southern frontiers of Egypt
towards Ethiopia, Ezek. 29:10; 30:6.
SYNAGOGUE, an assembly or congre-
gation, John 9:22; 12:42; Rev. 2:4: the
building in which a Jewish congregation
assembled to read the law and worship God, Luke 7:5; Acts 18:20. Build-
ings of this kind were erected in most of
the cities of Judea and Galilee after the
return of the Jews from Babylon, and the
completion of the Old Testament. Ezra
is thought to have suggested this pro-
vision; and it became common after the
time of the Maccabees; though there were
previously places of prayer erected at a
short distance from the cities, Acts 16:
13: they are also called synagogues,
Psal. 74:8.
SYRACU'SE, [g] (that draws vio-
lently), a famous city on the east of Sicily,
Acts 28:12. The history of this
place, honoured by the birth of the great
mathematician Archimedes, is identified
with that of Sicily: it was once the
largest city of the Greeks; it was taken
by the Romans about the year 206 B.C.,
when they slew that extraordinary man.
Syracuse still continues, and contains
about 15,000 inhabitants, nominally Chris-
tians.