firm

1. metaph. faithful

verily, amen

1. at the beginning of a discourse - surely, truly, of a truth

2. at the end - so it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled. It was a custom, which passed over from the synagogues to the Christian assemblies, that when he who had read or discoursed, had offered up solemn prayer to God, the others responded Amen, and thus made the substance of what was uttered their own.

   The word "amen" is a most remarkable word. It was transliterated directly from the Hebrew into the Greek of the New Testament, then into Latin and into English and many other languages, so that it is practically a universal word. It has been called the best known word in human speech. The word is directly related — in fact, almost identical — to the Hebrew word for "believe" (amam), or faithful. Thus, it came to mean "sure" or "truly", an expression of absolute trust and confidence. — HMM

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

himself, herself, itself, themselves

an image, likeness

1. i.e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary

2. used of the shades of the departed, apparitions, spectres, phantoms of the mind, etc.

the image of an heathen god

a false god

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

a little child

in the NT used as a term of kindly address by teachers to their disciples

to guard

1. to watch, keep watch

2. to guard or watch, have an eye upon: lest he escape

3. to guard a person (or thing) that he may remain safe

   1. lest he suffer violence, be despoiled, etc. to protect

   2. to protect one from a person or thing

   3. to keep from being snatched away, preserve safe and unimpaired

   4. to guard from being lost or perishing

   5. to guard one's self from a thing

4. to guard i.e. care for, take care not to violate

   1. to observe

to observe for one's self something to escape

1. to avoid, shun flee from

2. to guard for one's self (i.e. for one's safety's sake) so as not to violate, i.e. to keep, observe (the precepts of the Mosaic law)