ascend

1. to go up

2. to rise, mount, be borne up, spring up

of separation

1. of local separation, after verbs of motion from a place i.e. of departing, of fleeing,...

2. of separation of a part from the whole

   1. where of a whole some part is taken

3. of any kind of separation of one thing from another by which the union or fellowship of the two is destroyed

4. of a state of separation, that is of distance

   1. physical, of distance of place

   2. temporal, of distance of time

of origin

1. of the place whence anything is, comes, befalls, is taken

2. of origin of a cause

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

the office of a governor or prefect

the region subject to a prefect

1. a province of the Roman empire, either a larger province, or an appendage to a larger province, as Palestine was to that of Syria

to get upon, mount

1. to embark in

2. to go aboard (a ship)

to set foot in, enter

the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night

1. in the daytime

2. metaph., "the day" is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness

of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)

1. Eastern usage of this term differs from our western usage. Any part of a day is counted as a whole day, hence the expression "three days and three nights" does not mean literally three whole days, but at least one whole day plus part of two other days.

of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom

used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.

Jerusalem = "set ye double peace"

1. denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants

2. "the Jerusalem that now is", with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location

3. "Jerusalem that is above", that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built

   1. metaph. "the City of God founded by Christ", now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom

4. "the heavenly Jerusalem", that is the heavenly abode of God, Christ, the angels, saints of the Old and New Testament periods and those Christians that are alive at Christ's return

5. "the New Jerusalem", a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed

Caesarea = "severed"

1. Caesarea of Philippi was situated at the foot of Lebanon near the sources of the Jordan in Gaulanitis, and formerly called Paneas; but afterward being rebuilt by Philip the tetrarch, it was called by him Caesarea, in honour of Tiberias Caesar; subsequently called Neronias by Agrippa II, in honour of Nero.

2. Caesarea of Palestine was built near the Mediterranean by Herod the Great on the site of Strabo's Tower, between Joppa and Dora. It was provided with a magnificent harbour and had conferred upon it the name of Caesarea, in honour of Augustus. It was the residence of Roman procurators, and the majority of its inhabitants were Greeks.

with, after, behind

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so

three

[Porcius] Festus = "festival"

1. the successor of Felix as procurator of Judea