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changed. Greek. allasso. see Act_6:14.
glory. Greek. doxa. See p. 1511.
uncorruptible. Greek. aphthartos. Here; 1Co_9:25; 1Co_15:52. 1Ti_1:17. 1Pe_1:4, 1Pe_1:23; 1Pe_3:4.
image, &c. = likeness (Greek. homoioma. Here, Rom_5:14; Rom_6:5; Rom_8:3. Php_1:2, Php_1:7. Rev_9:7) of an image of.
image. Greek. eikon. Occurs twenty-three times; always so rendered. This is the Figure of speech Pleonasm. App-6.
corruptible. Greek. phthartos. Here, 1Co_9:25; 1Co_15:53, 1Co_15:54; 1Pe_1:18, 1Pe_1:23.
birds, &c. In Egypt they worshipped the hawk and the ibis.
fourfooted beasts. Greek. tetrapous. See Act_10:12. As the bull and the cow, held by the Egyptians sacred to. Apis and Hathor (Venus); the dog to Anubis; &c.
creeping things. Greek. herpeton. See Act_10:12. The asp, sacred to the gods of Egypt and found in every heathen pantheon; indeed, the worship of the serpent plays a prominent part in all forms of Paganism. The crocodile, tortoise, frog, and the well-known Scarabaeus beetle, sacred to the sun and to Pthah, and used as an emblem of the world (Wilkinson).