Testimony
TESTIMONY
The whole revelation of God, testifying to man what he is to believe, do, and hope, Psa 19:7 119:88,99 1Co 1:6 Jer 1:2 . The two stone tables of the law were a visible “testimony” or witness of God’s covenant with his people; and hence the ark of the covenant was called sometimes the testimony, or the ark of the testimony, Exo 25:22 34:29. See ARK.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Testimony
See Martyr, Trial-at-Law.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Testimony
(1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thess. 1:10).
(2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa. 8:16, 20).
(3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Josh. 22:10).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
TESTIMONY
See WITNESS.
Fuente: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
Testimony
TESTIMONY.See Ark, 1; Tabernacle, 7 (a); Witness; and, for 2Ki 11:12, Ornaments, 4.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Testimony
TESTIMONY, TESTIMONIES
These words would need no explanation in their simple sense and meaning, whether as they relate to the Lord’s testimony or to man’s. Every one cannot but know, that the direct tendency of a testimony is to witness to some certain truth. Thus the whole Bible is a testimony of JEHOVAH’S sovereign will; and the Gospel a special testimony of the riches of his grace in Christ Jesus to the church and people.
But we meet with the word testimonies in the book of the Psalms, in a sense so peculiarly sweet and blessed, that I could not prevail upon myself to pass it by, without calling the reader’s attention to it.
If the reader will turn to Psa 119:1-176 he will find the word testimonies, together with nine other words there evidently placed for the same meaning, which mutually serve to throw a light upon each other. The ten words are-testimonies, way, law, commandments, precepts, word, judgments, truth, (or faithfulness) statutes, and righteousness. And what is very remarkable, one or other of these ten words is in every verse of that Psalm, except one, (as far as my memory helpeth me) namely, Psa 119:122.
I beg the reader first to inform himself of his very striking circumstance, and then to consider, from the manner and occasion in which the words are applied, what is their obvious sense and meaning. If, for example, we consider the common and general acceptation of the word law, surely the Psalmist David could never be supposed to say, that the law of Moses as a covenant of works was his delight and joy, as he saith the law was in this Psalm, (Psa 119:72; Psa 119:97, etc.) Had he been looking to his own personal performance of the law of God, the conviction of his manifold breaches of the law would have made him rather tremble. But if the law spoken of in this Psalm be considered with an eye to what the Holy Ghost saith by his servant the apostle, “that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth,” (Rom 10:4) -and if Christ himself be the speaker represented by his servant the Psalmist, the whole then is abundantly clear and evident. Jesus might well say, and Jesus alone could say it, “I delight to do thy will O my God, yea thy law is within my heart”-or as the margin renders it, “in the midst of my bowels,” (Psa 40:8) -meaning that it was wrapt up, yea forming his very nature, from the entire holiness of that nature. (See Heb 7:26)
In like manner the word testimonies, these had evidently a reference to the table of testimony in the Jewish church. It was before this testimony the omer of manna was placed. (See Exo 16:33-34) Now, as the whole of this service plainly typified Christ, we cannot be at a loss to discover what is meant under the term of testimonies in this Psalm, when we hear the blessed speaker saying, “Thy testimonies have I taken as mine heritage for ever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.” (Psa 119:111)
Similar observations might be offered on each of the other words in this Psalm, but these are enough in point. I only desire to add, what may be considered as a key to the whole, that one verse in the middle of the Psalm determines at once to whom the whole refers, and who is the speaker; and the evangelist’s application of the words to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ very fully confirms it: “My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words,” (Psa 119:139; Psa 69:9; Joh 2:17)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Testimony
See WITNESS.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Testimony
Legal
Evidence; Witness
Ark of
Ark
Religious:
– General references
1Ch 16:8-9; Psa 9:11; Psa 18:49; Psa 26:6-7; Psa 119:27; Psa 119:172; Psa 145:11-12; Isa 12:4-6; Isa 32:4; Isa 43:10; Isa 44:8; Isa 45:24; Jer 51:10; Mar 4:21; Mat 5:15; Luk 8:16; Mar 5:16; Mar 5:19-20; Luk 8:38-39; Luk 12:8-9; Mat 10:32; Luk 24:48; Joh 4:28-30; Joh 4:39; Joh 4:41-42; Joh 15:27; Act 1:8; Act 1:22; Rom 10:9-10; 1Co 1:5-6; 1Co 12:3; 1Co 13:1; Eph 5:19; Phi 3:7-14; 1Ti 6:12-13; 2Ti 1:8; Heb 2:3; Heb 2:12; 1Pe 3:15; 1Pe 5:1; Rev 12:11 Confession
– Religious, exemplified
Job 19:25-27; Psa 16:5-9; Psa 18:2-3; Psa 18:35-36; Psa 22:22; Psa 23:1-6; Psa 26:12; Psa 27:1-6; Psa 27:13; Psa 28:6-8; Psa 30:1-6; Psa 34:1-4; Psa 34:8-9; Psa 35:28; Psa 40:1-3; Psa 40:9; Psa 54:7; Psa 57:7-9; Psa 62:1-2; Psa 66:16-20; Psa 71:15-18; Psa 71:24; Psa 73:23-26; Psa 73:28; Psa 77:12; Psa 89:1; Psa 91:2-13; Psa 116:1-14; Psa 119:13; Psa 119:26-27; Psa 119:46; Psa 119:67; Psa 119:71; Psa 145:4-7; Psa 145:10-12; Dan 4:1-37; Joh 9:17; Joh 9:30-33; Act 2:4-11; Act 3:15; Act 4:18-20; Act 5:31-32; Act 13:31; Act 26:12-23; Act 22; 1Co 15:15; 2Co 4:13-14; 2Co 5:1; Gal 2:20; Phi 3:4-14; 2Ti 1:12; 2Ti 4:7-8; Tit 1:1-2; Tit 3:3-7; 1Pe 5:12; 2Pe 1:16; 1Jn 1:1-4
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Testimony
“a testimony, witness,” is almost entirely translated “testimony” in both AV and RV. The only place where both have “witness” is Act 4:33. In Act 7:44; Jam 5:3, the RV has “testimony” (AV, “witness”).
In 2Th 1:10, “our testimony unto you,” RV, refers to the fact that the missionaries, besides proclaiming the truths of the gospel, had borne witness to the power of these thruths. Kerugma, “the thing preached, the message,” is objective, having especially to do with the effect on the hearers; marturion is mainly subjective, having to do especially with the preacher’s personal experience. In 1Ti 2:6 the RV is important, “the testimony (i.e., of the gospel) to be borne in its own times,” i.e., in the times Divinely appointed for it, namely, the present age, from Pentecost till the church is complete. In Rev 15:5, in the phrase, “the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in Heaven,” the “testimony” is the witness to the rights of God, denied and refused on earth, but about to be vindicated by the exercise of the judgments under the pouring forth of the seven bowls or vials of Divine retribution. See WITNESS.
“witness, evidence, testimony,” is almost always rendered “witness” in the RV (for AV, “testimony” in Joh 3:32-33; Joh 5:34; Joh 8:17; Joh 21:24, and always for AV, “record,” e.g., 1Jo 5:10-11), except in Act 22:18 and in the Apocalypse, where both, with one exception, have “testimony,” Act 1:2, is objective, the “testimony” or witness given to Him (cp. Act 1:2, Act 1:9; as to those who will bear it, see Rev 12:17, RV). The statement “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy,” is to be understood in the light, e.g., of the “testimony” concerning Christ and Israel in the Psalms, which will be used by the godly Jewish remnant in the coming time of “Jacob’s Trouble.” All such “testimony” centers in and points to Christ. See WITNESS.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Testimony
a witnessing, evidence, or proof, Act 14:3. The whole Scripture, or word of God, which declares what is to be believed, practised, and expected by us, is called God’s testimony, and sometimes in the plural testimonies, Psa 19:7. The two tables of stone on which the law or ten commandments were written, which were witnesses of that covenant made between God and his people, and testified what it was that God had required of them, have the same title, Exo 25:16; Exo 25:21; Exo 31:18.