Rock: Figurative
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2 Samuel 22:32,47
For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
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2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
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Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
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Psalm 31:2
Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.
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Psalm 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
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Isaiah 17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips:
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Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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Matthew 16:18
And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... For the ascertaining of figurative language, a few simple rules will be, in ... of the
ancient Israelites that "they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

Christ's Connection with the Creator Shown Many Quotations Out of ...
... we read of His being placed "for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence ... fit
than a name which might have been derived from no figurative description of ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xiii christs connection with the.htm

Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ.
... Acknowledge that His "spoils" are figurative whose weapons you have learnt to be ...
new law's grace), after our circumcision with "a knife of rock" [1291] (that is ...
/.../tertullian/an answer to the jews/chapter ix of the prophecies of.htm

Living Stones on the Living Foundation Stone
... He had heard from Christ's lips, 'Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will ... The context
explains the figurative expression, in the very next verse or two, by ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/living stones on the living.htm

Elements of Prophetic Interpretation.
... (c.) "The figurative terms are always predicates, or are employed in ... Examples.""He
is the Rock." Deut.32:4. "Her gates shall lament and mourn." Isa.3:25. ...
/.../a brief commentary on the apocalypse/elements of prophetic interpretation.htm

Elucidations.
... Peter is called a stone or a rock; a usage to which neither Luther nor ... Thus He fulfilled
the figurative law of His priesthood, as given by Moses, (Deuteronomy ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/elucidations.htm

The Great Confession - the Great Commission - the Great ...
... Christ's contemporaries may have regarded the world as reared on the rock of faithful ...
the leaven' in a literal, which He had meant in a figurative sense, that ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxxvii the great confession.htm

Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power ...
... If the apostles understood these (figurative meanings of the Law) better, of course
they ... If, because the Lord has said to Peter, "Upon this rock will I build ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter xxi of the difference between.htm

Touching Jacob, However, that which He did at his Mother's Bidding ...
... And Christ a Rock, and the stony heart of the Jews; also, Christ a Lion ... All these
modes of speaking shall be accounted lies, if figurative speech or action ...
/.../augustine/against lying/section 24 touching jacob however.htm

Some Rules for Discerning what is Said About Christ the ...
... shown that Christ is oftentimes called a Stone in parable, and in figurative speech
Jacob ... that we are happy to die for the name of the good Rock, which causes ...
/.../chapter cxiv some rules for discerning.htm

Resources
Is Christian rock music appropriate? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that God is the Rock of salvation? | GotQuestions.org

What is the Dome of the Rock? | GotQuestions.org

Rock: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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