Psalm 72:6
He shall come down like rain on the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
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On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xxi. 19, Where Jesus Dried up ...
... If we are parched, let us beg for rain, that we may grow green ... of these at once,
both its own literal interpretation, [2972] and a figurative signification also ...
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Elements of Prophetic Interpretation.
... statutes and keep my commandments, and do them: then I will give you rain in due ...
Prophecy is figurative when it abounds in tropes, as in much of ISAIAH and the ...
/.../a brief commentary on the apocalypse/elements of prophetic interpretation.htm

Translated from Latin of Rufinus.
... the whole earth, yet, by one and the same operation of the rain, that soil ... I think
there is no absurdity in explaining the tropical or figurative [2326] nature ...
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Psalm LXXII.
... it is perceived, that the very word Salomon is used in a figurative sense, so ... 9.
"And He shall come down like rain into a fleece, and like drops distilling ...
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Concerning Loans Prohibition of Usury and the Usurious Spirit. The ...
... ungrateful who deserved to have their gratitude"even He, whose sunshine and rain
even you ... [4128] For in applying to these heretics the figurative words which ...
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Chapter vii
... Flood would be what would normally be expected, namely the rain from above ... the fact
that the heavens poured down torrential rains, the figurative expression is ...
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Even the Metaphorical Descriptions of this Subject in the ...
... the resurrection by means of the language of the prophets, which is equally figurative. ...
on a general condition once for all made to man, "sending rain on the ...
/.../chapter xxvi even the metaphorical descriptions.htm

Exposition of the Present State of the Churches.
... billows and whirled up from the deep, while a vehement torrent of rain pours down ...
77. Turn now I beg you from this figurative description to the unhappy reality ...
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Whether Sufficient Reason Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies ...
... The figurative meaning of these things is that the boards of which the tabernacle
was ... the curtains of goats' hair, which were exposed to wind and rain, as the ...
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Interpretation of Prophecy.
... monarch's progress through the land of Judea, ending with a figurative account of
his ... grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." The mind ...
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