LOAVES, masses of bread, 1 Sam. 17:
17; John 6:9, 26.
LOCK, the fastening of a door, Sol. Song
5:5; Judg. 3:23, 24: a curl of hair,
Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5.
LOCKED, fastened with a lock, Judg.
3:23, 24.
LOCUST, a devouring insect, larger but
resembling a grasshopper, Exod. 10:4-19.
Innumerable multitudes swarm in Arabia
and Africa, overspreading a country, con-
suming or infecting every green vege-
table and the corn, and causing a pesti-
lence by their corrupting of the air when
dead. Such plague has been known to
destroy 80,000 or 100,000 persons at a
visitation, Joel 1:3-10. A species of the
locust was allowed for food by the law
of Moses, Lev. 11:22: and it was used
by JohnBaptist, Matt.
3:4.
LOCUSTS, great and terrible armies, as
employed by the false prophet Moh_m-
m_d, and by his successors, who pre-
vailed over the countries in which Chris-
tianity had been corrupted by the priests
and wicked teachers, Rev. 9:3-11.
LODGE, a small house in a retired
place, Isa. 1:8.
LODGE, to repose for the night, Gen.
24:23, 24; Acts 10:6.
LODGED, did lodge, Gen. 32:13:
did dwell for a season, Acts 10:18-23.
LODGING, temporary habitation, Acts
28:23.
LOFT, an upper floor, Acts 20:9.
LOFTILY, haughtily, scornfully, Psal.
73:8.
LOFTINESS, pride, haughtiness, Jer.
48:29.
LOFTY, elevated, as God on the throne
of the universe, Isa. 57:15: haughty, as
proud men, Isa. 2:11, 12.
LOG, a Hebrew measure of about three
quarters of a pint, Lev. 14:10. See MEASURES.
LOINS, the lower parts of the back
where the girdle is worn, Exod. 12:11;
28:42: the whole body, Psal. 66:
11. "Gird up the loins of the mind,"
1 Pet. 1:13, means, have the mind well
furnished with truth, and the heart with
grace, as a traveller prepared for a jour-
ney, 2 Kings 4:29.
LO'IS, Λωις
(better), a pious Jewess, the
grandmother of Timothy, 2 Tim. 1:5.
LONG, great in distance, Deut. 14:24:
extended time, Exod. 20:12.
LONG, to desire vehemently, as for
relief in suffering, Job 6:8; or for en-
joyment, Psal. 63:1: to love greatly,
Gen. 34:8.
LONGED, did regard with affection,
2 Sam. 13:39: did love greatly, Psal.
119:40; Phil. 2:26.
LORD, a governor, applied
especially
to God, Deut. 10:14, 17: to Christ, Phil.
2:11: to the Holy
Spirit, 2 Thess. 3:5;
2 Cor. 3:17, 18. Lord, as applied to
man, indicates authority, as of a king,
Acts 25:26; a chief ruler, Gen. 45:8,
9: to nobles, Dan. 5:6: to tyrants, 1 Pet.
5:3. Lord is used as a title of reverence
to a husband, Gen. 18:12: to a master,
Matt. 10:24: to a person of property,
Gal. 4:1: to persons of apparent worth,
Gen. 24:18.
LOVE, to regard with natural affection,
Gen. 22:2; Eph. 5:25: to pity, Mark
10:21: to compassionate, John 3:16: to
benevolently regard, Matt. 5:43, 44: to
esteem and prefer, Matt. 10:37: to delight
in, John 3:35.
LUKE,
Λουκας (luminous), the evangelist,
the writer of the "Gospel according to
Luke," and the "Acts of the
Apostles,"
is believed to have been a physician, as
some say, of Antioch, Col. 4:14: he
was for many years a companion of Paul in his missionary labours, Acts 16:
10, "whose praise was in all the churches,
and who was chosen by the brethren to
travel with the apostles," 2 Cor. 8:18,
19. Luke continued the faithful fellow-
labourer with Paul till his martyrdom,
Phil. 23, 24; 2 Tim. 4:11; and was hon-
oured as the writer of two of the most
valuable of the books of Scripture.
LUST, to desire vehemently, Deut. 12:
20, 21: to covet things unlawfully, 1 Cor.
10:6. The "flesh lusting against the
Spirit," is the opposition of passion
against inward piety, Gal. 5:15; and
"the Spirit lusting against the flesh," is
the influence of grace against the natu-
ral appetites, constituting the conflict
experienced by every Christian, Rom.
8:13.
