FROGS
Frogs
(See EGYPT and (See EXODUS). Zeparda’; only found in Exodus and the psalms copied from it. The word is Egyptian; an undesigned coincidence confirming the authenticity of Exodus. The magicians, though permitted to increase the plague of frogs, could neither remove it or any of the other plagues. The three unclean spirits like frogs (Rev 16:13) symbolize
(1) “proud infidelity”, opposing Christ and God, “out of the dragon’s mouth”;
(2) “the spirit of the world”, whether lawless socialistic democracy or despotism, setting man above God, “out of the beast’s mouth”;
(3) “lying spiritualism”, superseding the harlot and proceeding “out of the false prophet’s mouth.”
Awful parody of the Trinity. As frogs croak by night in marshes, so already in our days these unclean spirits in dark error teach lies amidst the mire of filthy lusts. But though the frogs croak at the surface, it does not follow there are not many good. fish beneath, an elect remnant.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Frogs
Plague of
Exo 8:2-14; Psa 78:45; Psa 105:30
Symbolic
Rev 16:13
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
FROGS
Frogs are represented, by Aristophanesf1 and Juvenal,f2 as the proper inhabitants of the Stygian Lake.
Horace gives them, as being an hellish kind of animal,f3 the epithet of nasty; and makes their blood an ingredient in sortilegious charms. The same epithet is also given them in Ovid f4 and Martial.f5
The Oriental Oneirocritics are not so clear in this point as they usually are;f6 for they content themselves to rank the frogs among serpents and other creeping things, taking them to signify enemies in general.
Philo says, they are the symbol of vain opinions and glory, having only noise and sound, void of reason.f7
Artemidorus, Lib. 2. c. 15, says, , – (Frogs signify impostors and flatterers, and bode good to them that get their living out of the common people.)
The frogf8 by the Egyptians was made the symbol of an impudent, quick-sighted fellow; the frog, according to them, having blood no where else than in its eyes.
F1 Aristoph. Ran.
F2 Juvenal. Sat. 2. ver. 150.
F3 Horat. Epod. 5:19.
F4 Ovid. Met. lvi.
F5 Mart. Lib. x. Ep. 37.
F6 Oneir. c. 176.
F7 Philo. Ind. de Sacr. Abel. p. 95.
F8 Hor..tEg. Hierogl. 96. Lib. 2.
Fuente: A Symbolical Dictionary
FROGS
Exo 8:2; Psa 78:45; Psa 105:30; Rev 16:13