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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78394" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78394" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Ἔσοπτρον''''' ''' (Strong'S #2072 Noun Neuter esoptron es'-op-tron ) </div> <p> rendered, "glass" in the AV, is used of any surface sufficiently smooth and regular to reflect rays of light uniformly, and thus produce images of objects which actually in front of it appear to the eye as if they were behind it. "Mirrors" in Biblical times were, it seems, metallic; hence the RV adopts the more general term "mirror;" in 1 Corinthians 13:12 , spiritual knowledge in this life is represented metaphorically as an image dimly perceived in a "mirror;" in James 1:23 , the "law of liberty" is figuratively compared to a "mirror;" the hearer who obeys not is like a person who, having looked into the "mirror," forgets the reflected image after turning away; he who obeys is like one who gazes into the "mirror" and retains in his soul the image of what he should be. </p> 2 Corinthians 3:18Behold | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_144369" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_144369" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52647" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52647" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Mirror]] </strong> See Glass. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16660" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16660" /> == | ||
<p> See | <p> See [[Looking Glass]] </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67710" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67710" /> == | ||
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== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16166" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16166" /> == | ||
<p> Fig. 254—Egyptian [[Metal]] [[Mirrors]] </p> <p> | <p> Fig. 254—Egyptian [[Metal]] [[Mirrors]] </p> <p> Mirror . In the first of these passages the mirrors in the possession of the women of the Israelites, when they departed from Egypt, are described as being of brass; for 'the laver of brass, and the foot of it,' are made from them. In the second, the firmament is compared to 'a molten mirror.' In fact, all the mirrors used in ancient times were of metal; and as those of the Hebrew women in the wilderness were brought out of Egypt, they were doubtless of the same kind as those which have been found in the tombs of that country, and many of which now exist in our museums and collections of [[Egyptian]] antiquities. These are of mixed metals, chiefly copper, most carefully wrought and highly polished; and so admirably did the skill of the [[Egyptians]] succeed in the composition of metals, that this substitute for our modern looking-glass was susceptible of a luster which has even been partially revived at the present day in some of those discovered at Thebes, though buried in the earth for so many centuries. The mirror itself was nearly round, and was inserted in a handle of wood, stone, or metal, the form of which varied according to the taste of the owner. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51024" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51024" /> == | ||
