SOMETIMES (sum'tims), (Gr. tort, pot-eh'), (Eph. ii:13; v:8; Col. i:21; Tit. iii:3), once, once upon a time, in reference to the past.
SON (sun), (Heb. 1; bane ; Gr. vi6s, hwee-os', son), a word used in several senses, both in the Old and New Testaments. It denotes: 1. The immediate offspring.
2. Grandson: so Laban is called son of Nahor (Gem xxix :5), whereas he was his grandson, be ing the son of Bethuel (Gen. xxiv:29) Mephibo sheth is called son of Saul, though he was the son of Jonathan, son of Saul (2 Sam. xix :24).
3. Remote descendants: so we have the sons of Israel, many ages after the primitive ancestor.
4. Son-in-law :—There is a son born to Naomi (Ruth iv:17).
5. Son by adoption, as Ephraim and Manasseh, to Jacob (Gen. xlviii).
6. Son by nation ; sons of the East (I Kings iv :3o ; Job i :3 ) 7. Son by education ; that is, a disciple; Eli calls Samuel his son (t Sam. iii :6). Solomon calls his disciple his son, in the Proverbs, often; and we read of the sons of the prophets (I Kings xx:35, et al.), that is, those under a course of instruction for ministerial service. In nearly the same sense a convert is called son (I Tim. i:2; Titus i:4; Philem. to; I Cor. iv:is; I Pet. v:t3).
9• Son by disposition and conduct, as sons of Bclial (Judg. xix :22 ; I Sam. ii:i2), unrestrain able persons ; sons of the mighty (Ps. xxix marg.) ; sons of the band (2 Chron. xxv :13), sol diers rank and file; sons of the sorceress, who study or practice sorcery (Is. Ivii :3).
9. Son in reference to age; son of one year .
(Exod. :5), that is, one year old; son of sixty years, etc. The same in reference to a beast (Micah vi:6, see marg.).
10. A production, or offspring, as it were, from any parent; sons of the burning coal, that is, sparks, which issue from burning wood (Job v :7). Son of the bow, that is, an arrow (Job iv :to), because an arrow issues from a bow; but an arrow may also issue from a quiver, therefore son of the quiver (Lam. Hi:13). Son of the floor, thrashed corn (Is. xxi :to). Sons of oil (Zech. iv:14), the branches of the olive tree.
11. Son of beating, that is, deserving beating (Dent. xxv :3). Son of death ; that is, deserving death (2 Sam. xii :3). Son• of perdition; that is, deserving perdi tion (John xvii:I2).
12. Son of God, by excellence above all; Jesus the Son of God (Mark i:1; Luke i :35 ; John i :34 ; Rom. i:4; Heb. iv :14 ; Rev. ii :18). The only-begotten ; and in this he differs front Adam, who was the son of God, by immediate cre ation (Luke iii 18) 13. Sons of God, the angels (Job i:
6; xxxviii :7), perhaps so called in re spect to their possessing power dele gated from God; his deputies, his vice gerents, and in that sense among others his offspring.
14. Genuine Christians, truly pious persons; perhaps also so called in ref erence to their possession of principles communicated from God by the Holy Spirit, which, correcting every evil bias, and subduing every perverse propen sity, gradually assimilates the party to the temper, disposition and conduct, called the image, likeness or resemblance of God.
Believers are sons of God. (See John i :12 ; Phil.
ii :is ; Rom. viii :14 ; 1 John iii a.) 15. Sons of this world (Luke xvi :8) are those who by their overweening attention to the things of this world, defnonstrate their principles to be derived from the world; that is, worldly-minded persons. Sons of disobedience (Eph. ii:2; v:61 are persons whose conduct proves that they are sons of Bolial, of unrestrainableness, sons of lib ertinism. Sons of hell (Matt. xxiii :5). Sons of the devil (Acts xiii :to).
SONG (song), (Heb. -el, sheer; Gr. o-day').
Songs were used on occasions of thanksgiving and triumph, as the song of Moses at the deliver ance from Pharaoh (Exod. xv :1) ; the song of Israel at the well of Beer (Num. xxi:t7) • the song of Moses in Deuteronomy (ch. xxxii) ; of Deborah (Judg. v :12) ; of David on bringing the ark to Jerusalem (t Chron. xiii :8) •, of Hannah (t Sam., ch. ii) ; of the Virgin Mary (Luke i :46) ; the songs in heaven (Rev. v :9, sq.; xiv :3; xv :3, sq.; xix:4, sq.).
Figurative. (I) God is the song of his peo ple; his excellencies and favors are the subject matter of it (Exod. xv :2). (2) Job and David were the song of their enemies; i. e., were the object of their mockery and derision (Job xxx :9 ; Ps. lxix :72). (3) New songs, are such as are newly made, or for new mercies, and are ever sweet and delightful (Ps. xxxiii :3 and x1:3). (4) Spiritual songs, are those whose subject-mat ter is spiritual and divine, in opposition to empty, false, fulsome, and impure songs, called the song of fools (Eph. v :i9 ; Col. iii :z6; Eccles. vii :5). They are called the Lord s song, or the song of the Lamb, because God and his Christ form the sub ject-matter of them, and to his honor they are sung (Ps. xlii :8 and cxxxvii :3; Rev. xv :3). (5) The Jews had songs sung almost the whole night of their more solemn feasts, especially on the first night of the Passover (Is. xxx :29).