LODGE, TO (16j).
I. This word in the A. V. represents the He brew verb 1117, /oon, or 0 leen, which usually has the force of "passing the night" (I Kings xix:9; Chron. ix:27; ls. x:29; Neh. iv:22; xiii:2o, 21; Cant. vii:t 1; Job xxiv:7; xxxi:32, etc.). The same Hebrew word is otherwise translated in the A. V. by "lie all night" (2 Sam. xii:16; Cant. in3; Job xxix:19); "tarry the night" (Gen. xix:2; Judg. xix to; Jer. xiv:8);"remain" (Ex. xxiii:18).
2. In Josh. ii :t the word in the original means "to lie," generally in allusion to sexual inter course.
LOFT (16ft), (Heb. 71:14/„ al-ee-yale, lofty), the upper room of a house (I Kings xviin9; Acts xx: 9), either over the gate (2 Sam. xviii :24) or built on the roof (2 Kings xxiii:i2).
LOG (16g), (Heb. lohg), a liquid measure, two-thirds of an imperial pint. (See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.) LOGOS (16g'os), (Gr. Aleyor, logos, a word), as used in John in it means the Word, symbolic ally referring to the creative law-giving, reveal ing activity of God.
(1) It designates especiallythe mediatorial char acter of our Redeemer, with special reference to his revelation of the character and will of the Father. It appears to be used as an abstract for the concrete, just as we find this same writer employing light for enlightener, life for lif e-giver, etc.; so that it properly signifies the speaker or interpreter, than which nothing can more ex actly accord with the statement made ( John i :18) : "No man hath seen God at any time ; the only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father, hath declared him." e. communicated to us the true knowledge of his mind and character. (2) That the term is merely expressive of a divine attribute, a position which has been long and variously maintained by Socinians. though aban doned as untenable by some of their best authori ties, is in total repugnance to all the circum stances of the context, which distinctly and ex pressly require personal subsistence in the subject which it describes. (3) He whom John styles the Logos, has the creation of all things ascribed to him; is set forth as possessing the country and people of the Jews; as the only begotten (son) of tbe Father ; as as suming the human nature, and displaying in it the attributes of grace and truth, etc. Such things
could never, with the least degree of propriety, be said of any mere attribute or quality. (4) Nor is the hypothesis of a personification to be reconciled with the universally admitted fact, that the style of John is the most simply his torical and the furthest removed from that species of composition to which such a figure of speech properly belongs. To the Logos, the Apostle at tributes eternal existence, distinct personality, and strict and proper Deity—characters which he also ascribes to him in his first epistle—besides the possession and exercise of perfections which ab solutely exclude the idea of derived or created being.
LOIN (loin), (Heb. 721, kha-rats'). the part of the back and side between the ribs and hip.
The place of the girdle (Job xxxviii:3; x1:7; Is. v :27; xxxii :II) : euphemistically for the seat of generation (Gen. xxxv :II ; Kings viii :19 ; 2 Chron. vi :9). Being the pivotal part of the body it was supposed to be most sensibly af fected by pain or terror (Deut. xxxiii :it ; Job xl :16 ; Ps. xxxviii :7 ; lxix :23 ; Is. xxi :3 ; Jen xxx :6 ; Ezek. xxi :6).
FiguratiVe. The dress of the Oriental na tions being loose, it was necessary, when they were traveling or working, to gird up their gar ments and fasten them about their loins, hence, "to gird up the loins" (1 Kings xviii :46; Job xxxviii:3; x1:7; Prov. xxxi :17, etc.) is used as a figure for vigorous effort. In I Pet. i :13, it is used to denote a state of mind in which the soul is prepared to work and exert itself under the influence of divine grace.
LOIS (16'is), (Gr. Aids, lo-ece', perhaps agree able), the grandmother of Timothy, not by the side of his father, who was a Greek, but by that of his mother.
Hence the Syriac has 'thy mother's mother.' She is commended by St. Paul for her faith (2 Tim. i :5) ; for although she might not have known that the Christ was come, and that Jesus of Nazareth was he, she yet believed in the Mes siah to come, and died in that faith. (A. D. 69).