UNSAVOURY, tasteless, or of an ill taste, or smell; it denotes, (1.) What is void of sense, Job vi. 6. (2.) What is horrid and abominable, Jer. xxiii. 13. his glory, nor the real good of them- || tries, still following after the idols aselves, or others, Psal. xiv. 3. Philem. || round, and still eager after new gods, 11. The ceremonial law was unfro- Ezek. xvi. 18. fitable; the guilt and power of sin could not be removed by the observance of all its rites, Heb. vii. 18.The grieving of ministers is unprofitable to their people, as it mars their studies and the discharge of their of- UNSEARCHABLE, that cannot fice, leads them out to complain of the be fully known in number, properties, injury to God, who will not fail to or extent; so the heart, or secret punish it in this or in the world to schemes of kings, is unsearchable, hard come, Heb. xiii. 17. to be known or pryed into, Prov. xxv. UNQUENCHABLE, that can ne-3. But the riches of Christ, the judgver be put out, and made to ceasements of God, and his greatness, are from burning, Matth. iii. 12. UNREASONABLE, without and contrary to reason and common sense, Acts xxv. 27. Unreasonable men, are such as either know not, or regard not || reason, but furiously act as their lusts excite them, 2 Thess. iii. 2. UNREBUKABLE, UNREPROVABLE. See UNBLAMEABLE. UNRIGHTEOUS, UNJUST, without or contrary to justice or equity, Heb. vi. 10. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, or what is unrighteous, is either, (1.) What is contrary to the law of God in general, 1 Cor. vi. 9. 1 John i. 9 ;|| or, (2.) What is contrary to the duty we owe to men, Rom. i. 8. Exod. xxiii. 1; or, (3.) What is deceitful, false, and erroneous, and unjustly tends to mislead men, John vii. 18. Unjust or unrighteous persons, are, (1.) Such as wrong their neighbours, as David's opposers under Saul or Absalom did him, Psal. xliii. 1; or, (2.) Sinners in general, who wrong God, robbing him of his due service and honour, and in his sight greatly wrong their neighbours, 1 Pet. iii. 3.† UNSATIABLE, that can never get what they reckon enough. The Jews were unsatiable in their idola much more so, and cannot be fully understood by any but God himself, Eph. iii. 8. Rom. xi. 33. Psal. cxlv. 3. UNSEEMLY; (1.) Abominable, what is not fit to be seen, heard, or thought of, Rom. i. 27. (2.) Unmannerly, indiscreetly, 1 Cor. xiii. 5. UNSHOD. Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: Do not wear out your shoes in going to seek foreign alliances and foreign idols; do not eagerly desire that which will issue in your future || misery, Jer. ii. 25. UNSKILFUL, without knowledge and experience, Heb. v. 13. UNSPEAKABLE, what cannot be expressed in words proportioned to its excellency and greatness, 2 Cor.. xi. 15. 1 Pet. i. 8. UNSPOTTED from the world; not defiled with the sinful fashions of the world, without offence towards God, and towards men, James i. 27. UNSTABLE, not fixed in affection or condition, like a man upon one leg, who is easily overturned; or like a rolling wave of the sea tossed to and fro, Gen. xlix. 4. James i. 8. 2 Pet. ii. 14. «nd iii. 16. 5. UNSTOPPED, opened, Isa. xxxv. UNTEMPERED, not duly mixed In Luke xvi. 9. The mammon of un- and wrought together. The flatteries right wsne.s, or unrighteous mavimon, de-of false teachers are like mortar made notes false or deceitful riches; as appears of sand not mixed or wrought with from its being contrasted in ver. fi. with lime; and hence all the plausible e true riches. Campbel schemes they build therewith shait quickly come to an end, Ezek. xiii. | person, righteousness and blessings, 10, 15. and xxii. 28. 1 Cor. xi. 27, 29. UNTIMELY, not in the proper season. Wicked men pass away like an untimely birth, which happens too soon, and so the embryo or child is imperfect; their ruin comes on them suddenly ere they expect it, and ere they get time to enjoy their honour, ease, or wealth, Psal. lviii. 8. The Heathen persecutors are likened to untimely figs that fall off the tree ere they be ripe; they were destroyed by Constantine ere they expected it, Rev. vi. 13. VOCATION, that effectual calling whereby God brings men out of a state of sin and misery, into a state of salvation, by his word and Spirit, Eph. iv. 1. VOICE in general, signifies any kind of noise, whether made by animals or not. God's voice is, (1.) The thunder, which is very terrible, and loudly declares the existence and providence of God, Psal. xxix; or, (2.) His laws, and the offers of his grace, in which he declares his will to men, Exod. xv. 26; or, (3.) His alarming providences, wherein he publishes his own excellencies, awakens us from our stupidity, and calls us to turn from our sin to duty, Mic. vi. 9. Amos i. 2. Christ's voice is the declaration of his gospel, and the influence of his Spirit, Song ii. 8, 12. Men's voice denote their words of command, instruction, and advice, Judg. xx. 13. and xiii. 9. 1 Sam. ii. 25. and xix. 6. One changes his voice, when, from sharp reproofs, he turns to commendation and comfort, Gal. iv. 20. Voices UNWISE; (1.) Such as never in the Revelation, denote, (1.) The learned sciences, Rom. i. 14. (2.) glorious and loud proclamation of the Foolish without the true knowledge gospel, by the authority of God, Rev. of God and his ways, Eph. v. 17. iv. 5. and xi, 19; or, (2.) The astonUNWITTINGLY (1.) With-ishing events of providence, that rouse out intending it, Josh. xx. 3. (2.) || and alarm the world, Rev. viii. 5, 13. Not knowing it, Lev. xxii. 14. UNTOWARD, perverse, rebellious against the calls of the gospel, and the language of providence: such were the Jews who contemned, opposed, and crucified our Saviour, and persecuted his followers, Acts ii. 40. UNWALLED, without walls built around them for their defence, Ezek. xxxviii. 11. and x. 3; or, (3.) The great joy of the saints, and their praises of God, for his deliverance of the church, and the destruction of her enemies. Rev. xi. 15. To mark John Baptist as not the true Messiah, but a proclaimer of his appearance, he is called a UNWORTHY, not meet, not deserving, 1 Cor. vi. 2. The Jews judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life, when they acted as if set upon ruining themselves, Acts xiii. 46. Men eat and drink unworthily at the Lord's table, when they do it invoice, Isa. xl. 6. Terrible outcries an unworthy state of voluntary subjection to sin and Satan. and while under the broken law, in an unworthy frame of spirit, ignorant, unbelieving, impenitent, envious, malicious, and with an unworthy end of self-applause, self-righteousness, or to qualify for a civil post; and when the elements are used as if they were common provision, not as the symbols of Jesus's from cities, which use to attend the approach of a furious enemy towards them, are called a voice, Isa. x. 30. The ceasing of the voice, or sound of harps, mirth, millstones, and of the light of candles, &c. import, that the place is reduced to desolation, Isa. xv. 1. Jer. vii. 34. and xlviii. 33. Rev. xviii. 22, 23. VOID; (1.) Empty, without ia UPPERMOST; (1.) Highest in place, Gen. xl. 17. (2.) Highest in dignity and honour, Matth. xxiii. 6. habitants or furniture, Gen. i. 2. (2.) | lives, offices, or estates, be ruined, Destitute of; quite wanting, Deut. Psal. liv. 4. Ezek. xxx. 6. Job's mainxxxii. 28. (3.) Clear from, Acts taining his ways before God, imports xxiv. 16. (4.) Of no force or effect: his defending of his integrity and hence vows are said to be made void, candour, and his continuance therein, when they are broken, Numb. xxx. Job xiii. 15. 12-15. The counsel of Judah was made void, when their projects had no good success, Jer, xix. 7. God's law is made void, when men break it, and live as if it had no obligation upon them, Rom. iii. 31. Psal. cxix. 126;|| and faith is made void, when it is useless, as all the promises of God, and our faith that embraces them, would he, if happiness could come by the works of the law, Rom. iv. 14. VOLUME. See ROLL. VOLUNTARY; not required by any law; but proceeding from one's free inclination, Ezek. xlvi. 12. Col. ii. 18. VOMIT. See SPUE. UPBRAID; (1.) Seriously and sharply to reprove men for their faults; so our Saviour upbraided the people of Capernaum, Bethsaida, and Chorazin, for their faults, Matth. xi. 20. (2.) To scoff and scold at one, to his face, James i. 5. Judg. viii. 15. UPHAZ; a place where there was fine gold; but whether it was the same as OPHIR, or some other place called PAZ, or Topaz, we know not. Calmet thinks it was the river Phasis on the east of the Black or Euxine sea, Jer. x 9. Dan. x. 5. UPRIGHT; (1.) Straight pointed towards heaven; standing like pillars, Jer. x. 5. (2.) Perfect, without sin, or tendency thereto, Eccl. vii. 29. (3.) Honest, candid, sincere, without allowed guile, Mic. vii. 2. The Jews might be the upright ones, that attended Antiochus the Great to Egypt, and adhering to their own religion, were more to be trusted than others; or the text may import, that Antiochus did many things upright in appearance, and made agreements on terms seemingly right, Dan. xi. 17. Jesus's righteousness is called his uprightness, Job xxxiii. 23. UPROAR. See TUMULT. UR; an ancient city of Chaldea of Mesopotamia, where Terah and A||braham dwelt. Some think, it was the same as Orchoe in proper Chaldea: but I rather suppose it was Ura, which stood in eastern Mesopotamia, between the city Nisibis and the river Tigris. About A. D. 360, as Jovinian retreated this way, after the mad invasion of Persia by Julian his predecessor, he found a Persian fort here, Acts vii. 2. Gen. xi. 28. URGE; (1.) To entreat earnestly, Gen. xxxiii. 12. (2.) To provoke to the utmost of one's power, Luke xi. 53. UPHOLD; to MAINTAIN and preserve; to cause things to continue in their being and station. God upholds Christ and his people: by his providences, he strengthens and bears them URIAH, URIJAH, URIAS, (1.) up against every foe, and under every An Hittite, one of David's worthies, pressure; and by his promises and and husband of BATHSHEBA. The influences, he refreshes and invigo- defilement of his wife by David, and rates their spirits, Isa. xlii. 1. Psalm the calling him from the army, and cxix. 16. He upholds all things, main-endeavouring to fill him drunk, and tains them in existence and operation, by his providential influences, Heb. i. 3. Men uphold others, when they encourage, comfort, and assist them, that their spirits sink not, nor their VOL. II. cause him sleep with his wife, in order to father the spurious child; and his resistance of these temptations, and being made the carrier of a letter directing to murder himself; his 4 I that Moses was to chuse the most shining and perfect stones of the vari plate. Prideaux thinks, the words chiefly denote the clearness of the oracles dictated to the high-priest, though perhaps the lustre of the stones in his death, and the vengeance of God upon David and his family, on account of his conduct towards him, are rela-ous kinds, to be put into the breastted in the article DAVID, 2 Sam. xxiii. 39. and xi. (2.) The idolatrous high-priest, who, by the direction of AHAZ, formed an altar like to another idolatrous one at Damascus, and of-breastplate might represent this clearfered sacrifices thereon, instead of the ness. When this oracle of Urim and altar of the Lord, 2 Kings xvi. 10, 11, Thummim was to be consulted, it is 12. (3.) A faithful prophet, who warn- said, the high-priest put on his golden ed the Jews of their approaching ruin, vestments, and in ordinary cases went and admonished them to repent of into the sanctuary, and stood with his their evil ways; but JEHOIAKIM hear-face to the holy of holies, and the coning thereof, resolved to put him to sulter stood as near him as the law death. He fled into Egypt, but Je-allotted: but how the answer was gi hoiakim sent and brought him back, ven, whether by an articulate voice and having ordered him to be murder from the mercy-seat, or by the outed, caused his corpse to be dishonour-standing or lustre of the letters in the ably cast into the graves of the com- breastplate, we know not. This oracle was never consulted in matters of mon people, Jer. xxvi. 20, 21.... URIM and THUMMIM, signify faith, as in these the Jews had the lights and perfections, and are men-written law for their rule, nor was it tioned as in the high-priest's breast-consulted in matters of small moplate; but what they were, we cannot ment; and it is even said, I suppose determine. Some think they were two without ground, that none but soveprecious stones added to the other reign judges, kings, and generals, It is certain, David twelve, by the extraordinary lustre of consulted it. which, God marked his approbation consulted the Lord in this manner, of a design, and by their dimness, his before he came to the throne. While disallowance of it: others think, these Moses lived, there was no occasion to two words were written on a precious consult this oracle, as the Lord spake stone or plate of gold, fixed in the to him face to face. After his death, breastplate: others will have the naine it was consulted till the age of the temJEHOVAH to have been inscribed on a ple and prophets, the latter of which plate of gold, and therein fixed: others seem to have supplied its room; for think, the letters of the names of the we read not of one single instance of tribes, were the Urim and Thummim; any consulting it in that age. Nor did and that the letters, by standing out, Josiah, when terrified with the threator by an extraordinary illumination, enings of God, consult it, but Huldah marked such words as contained the the prophetess, in order to know the answer of God to him who consulted mind of God, 2 Kings xxii. 14. Josethis oracle. Le Clerc will have them phus will have the stones of the Uto be the names of two precious stones, rim and Thummim to have retained set in a golden collar, and coming their lustre till about A. M. 3890; down to his breast, as the magistrates but it is certain, the oracle was wanting of Egypt wore a golden chain, at the some ages before, in the days of Ezra end of which hung the figures of Jus- and Nehemiah, Ezra ii. 63. Neh. vii. tice and Truth, engraven on precious 65. Nor do I know of the least ground to believe that it existed under the sestones. Weems thinks, they were somenament formed by God him-cond temple. The Jews pretend that self, and given to Moses. Hottinger the Bathcol supplied its place, whose thinks, they might mean no more but oracles, they say, were often attended |