Urim and Thummim references

Bibliographic criteria: none (All documents document(s)) Search criteria: urim and thummim Your search found 27 occurrences Click here for a KWIC Report Occurrences 1-27: 1. Jonathan Edwards. A History of the Work of... [page 253 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] lost at that time, though the same commands were preserved in the Book of the Law. These tables also were withdrawn on the approach of their antitype. Again (d.). another thing that was lost that the Jews had before was the Urim and Thummim . This is evident by Ezra 2:63, "And the Tirshatha [said unto them], that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and with Thummim." And we have no account of this being ever 2. Jonathan Edwards. A History of the Work of... [page 253 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] 2:63, "And the Tirshatha [said unto them], that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and with Thummim." And we have no account of this being ever restored, but the ancient writings of the Jews say the contrary. What this Urim and Thummim was I shall not now inquire, but only shall observe that it was something by which the high priest inquired of 3.12v. God and received immediate answers from him, or by which God gave forth immediate oracles on particular 3. Jonathan Edwards. A History of the Work of... [page 253 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] high priest inquired of 3.12v. God and received immediate answers from him, or by which God gave forth immediate oracles on particular occasions. This was now withdrawn, the time approaching when Christ, the great antitype of the Urim and Thummim , the great word and oracle of God, was to come. Another (e.). thing that the ancient Jews say was wanting in the second temple was the Shekinah or cloud of glory over the mercy seat. 4. Jonathan Edwards. A History of the Work of... [page 288 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] of the Jewish church wherein there was kept up a more extraordinary intercourse between God and them, and while he used to dwell among them, as it were, visibly revealing himself to them by the Shekinah, 4.17v. by Urim and Thummim , and by prophecy, and so more immediately to order their affairs. And it [was] necessary that we should have some account of the great dispensations of God in prophecy that were to be after the finishing of inspired history. And so it was exceeding suitable and needful that there 5. Jonathan Edwards. A History of the Work of... [page 534 | Paragraph | Section] of tables of law3.12r  (d.)Loss of Urim and Thummim  (e.)Loss of Shekhinah3.12v 6. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 150 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] t, 21, [25], 424, 1159 Unpardonable sin, 297, 355, 380, 406, 475, 703, 706, 707, 872, see note on Luke 11:24–26 Unregenerate men, 164 Urim and thummim , 240 Usury, 1117 V Vanity of the world, 725 Virtue, true, makes God its supreme end, 1208 Visible Christians, 335, 338, 345, 377, 462, 689, 722, 873, 1011 Visible church, its head, 1011 Vision beatifical, 7. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] of God" [1 Corinthians 2:14]. 240. URIM AND THUMMIM. There has been great inquiry, what was that urim and thummim that was in the breastplate of the high priest, whereas I think we have it plainly described in Exodus 28:17–21. Matthew Poole summarized the inquiry up to his time in 8. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] in the same year as the first volume of Poole's Synopsis, but Poole ignored it in the Annotations (1683). Prideaux (see n. 2 below) mentioned Spencer but dismissed his ideas as "absurd and impious." Spencer had identified the urim and thummim with the teraphim and had cited parallels from Egyptian priestly divination. Poole considered the urim and thummim a "singular piece of Divine Workmansip," now indescribable, required as a condition for obtaining answers from God, and for Prideaux they meant simply the "divine vertue and 9. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] in the Annotations (1683). Prideaux (see n. 2 below) mentioned Spencer but dismissed his ideas as "absurd and impious." Spencer had identified the urim and thummim with the teraphim and had cited parallels from Egyptian priestly divination. Poole considered the urim and thummim a "singular piece of Divine Workmansip," now indescribable, required as a condition for obtaining answers from God, and for Prideaux they meant simply the "divine vertue and power" which the breastplate possessed when properly used. And I don't see that, from anything said in 10. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] said in Scripture about it, we have reason to think it any other than those twelve precious stones with the names of the twelve tribes on them. And when it is said in Exodus 28:30, "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the urim and thummim ," it is as if he had said thus, thou [shalt] put in the breastplate the urim and thummim which has been described. The drift of this verse does not seem to be to order anything new, but only to give a name to that which had been before described and to tell the use of it, viz. that Aaron 11. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] stones with the names of the twelve tribes on them. And when it is said in Exodus 28:30, "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the urim and thummim," it is as if he had said thus, thou [shalt] put in the breastplate the urim and thummim which has been described. The drift of this verse does not seem to be to order anything new, but only to give a name to that which had been before described and to tell the use of it, viz. that Aaron might bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord 12. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 355 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] Every jewel stood for a tribe, and had the name of that tribe written on it that it stood for. God's people are called his jewels. So Christ bears our judgment; that is, he is our representative in judgment and, as to God's dealings with respect to his law, he stands for us. The name " urim and thummim " signifies light and perfection; and it being 'tis the plural number, may more properly be rendered "glisterings" (or "brightnesses") and "beauties," because of the charming appearances that the jewels made by their different kinds of glisterings, and the beautiful proportion 13. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 356 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] that those jewels represented is in Psalms 50:2 called by a name that is much like to this, viz. "the perfection of beauty.") Some say there was an extraordinary brightness given those jewels beyond what was natural to them. That the urim and thummim were not two distinct things in the breastplate appears, because sometimes when they are spoken of, but one of the names are mentioned; it's called urim only, as Numbers 27:21 and 1 14. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 356 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] was engraved "holiness to the Lord"; which the high priest was to have on his forehead, that he might bear the iniquity of the children of Israel, and that he might be accepted when he came in before the Lord (as Exodus 28:38). By the urim and thummim he was to bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart; by this plate of gold he was to bear the iniquity of the children of Israel on his head. We find them both mentioned after the same manner, where we have an account of Moses putting the holy garments upon Aaron, as in 15. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 356 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] the miter, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses." That which was properly called the breastplate, was a cloth curiously wrought, doubled (as Exodus 28:15–16), and the urim and thummim was Here occur the words, "that plate of gold that was fastened on it with"; JE deleted them at the same time he changed the page reference to Prideaux (see next note). the four rows of stones set in it Exodus 16. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 356 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] n. 2]), and then or later went back and changed the page reference in No. 240 to fit that edition. In the passage to which JE refers, Prideaux contends that the ark which the Israelites carried into battle was not the ark of the covenant but a chest containing the ephod and breastplate. The urim and thummim , by the beauty and excellency of its appearance was as proper to obtain acceptance and counsel of God, as incense by the sweetness of its smell was to render their prayers and sacrifices acceptable. It will [be] objected, that if the urim and thummim were nothing but 17. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 357 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] and breastplate. The urim and thummim, by the beauty and excellency of its appearance was as proper to obtain acceptance and counsel of God, as incense by the sweetness of its smell was to render their prayers and sacrifices acceptable. It will [be] objected, that if the urim and thummim were nothing but that plate of gold with the jewels in it, why is it said in Ezra and Nehemiah, that those priests that could not prove their genealogy should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with urim and thummim (as Ezra 18. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 357 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] acceptable. It will [be] objected, that if the urim and thummim were nothing but that plate of gold with the jewels in it, why is it said in Ezra and Nehemiah, that those priests that could not prove their genealogy should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with urim and thummim (as Ezra 2:63)? for if it had been only gold and jewels they could have gotten them before now. I answer, so if it had been any other material thing they could have gotten them as well as those jewels. But it seems that being 19. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 357 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] But it seems by this, that they expected to get them in a short time; which if it had been something that must be immediately given by God, they had not so much reason to expect it, for it seems that God had denied them hitherto. But if the objection be allowed, all that it can argue is that the urim and thummim was not any material thing, but a power given to the breastplate of foretelling or of obtaining divine responses. For we can't imagine in reason, that any material thing was expected to be sent down from heaven, to be put into the breastplate; but Lev. 20. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 357 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] but Leviticus 8:8 proves it was [a] material thing. Therefore, if they had those jewels in the breastplate at that time, the reason of their speaking in this manner must be, because they did not think them worthy the name of urim and thummim till they had such a power given them as MS: "and." the former urim and thummim had. 241. REGENERATION. It may be in the new birth as it is in the first birth. The 21. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 357 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] thing. Therefore, if they had those jewels in the breastplate at that time, the reason of their speaking in this manner must be, because they did not think them worthy the name of urim and thummim till they had such a power given them as MS: "and." the former urim and thummim had. 241. REGENERATION. It may be in the new birth as it is in the first birth. The vivification of the fetus in the womb is exceeding gradual; the vital operations of it arise from the most imperfect 22. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies": (Entry Nos.... [page 432 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section] MS: "most." importance that we should have the history of those times of the Jewish church, wherein there was kept up a more immediate and extraordinary intercourse between God and them, and [God] used to dwell amongst them as it were visibly, revealing himself by shechinah, by urim and thummim , and by prophecy, and so more immediately to order their affairs. It was exceeding suitable that there should be a number of prophets raised up successively, one after another, who should foretell the coming of the Son of God, and the nature and glory of his kingdom, to be as so many 23. Jonathan Edwards. Notes on Scripture (WJE Online... [page 91 | Paragraph | Section] in the breastplate of judgment the Urim," etc. Called "the breastplate of judgment," because in matters of judgment that were too hard for the judge, they I.e. the Children of Israel. Word broken at margin. were to come to the priest, who was to inquire of God by Urim and Thummim in the breastplate for a determination, according to Deuteronomy 17:8–9. 144. Deuteronomy 12:20. "When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy 24. Jonathan Edwards. The "Blank Bible" (WJE Online Vol.... [page 242 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section] Deuteronomy 17:8–9 ff. Exodus 28:30.] See no. 143. Works, 15, 91. " Urim and Thummim ," see "Miscellanies," no. 240. Ibid., 13, 355–57. This sentence and the remainder of the paragraph are later additions. See Mr. Glas's Notes on Scripture-Texts, No. 3, pp. 9 ff. 25. Jonathan Edwards. The "Blank Bible" (WJE Online Vol.... [page 242 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section] 9 ff. No copy of John Glas, Notes on Scripture-Texts, No. 4, has been located, but that publication is printed in The Works of Mr. John Glas (2nd ed., 5 vols. Perth, 1782–83). In an essay entitled " Urim and Thummim ," Glas (1695–1773), a Scottish minister of the independent Presbyterian type, identifies these terms as references to "lights" or "shinings from the Shechinah" on the stones in the breastplate of the high priest. Glas also asserts that Christ, the true high priest, is the true Urim 26. Jonathan Edwards. The "Blank Bible" (WJE Online Vol.... [page 242 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section] and Thummim," Glas (1695–1773), a Scottish minister of the independent Presbyterian type, identifies these terms as references to "lights" or "shinings from the Shechinah" on the stones in the breastplate of the high priest. Glas also asserts that Christ, the true high priest, is the true Urim and Thummim (III, 168–74). JE received Glas's publications from John Erskine, his correspondent in Scotland. See Works, 15, 579, n. 7. See SSS. Poole, Synopsis 27. Jonathan Edwards. Minor Controversial Writings (WJE... [Paragraph | Section] 17:4 Numbers 17:4, Leviticus 16:2, Leviticus 9:6. ANOTHER STANDING MIRACLE promised, was God's manifesting his mind by Urim and Thummim , if that was different, as Exodus 28:30, Numbers 27:21. And This paragraph is deleted with a vertical line.