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What Does Lion Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn’t turn away for any;
What does lion mean in the Bible?
Lion: the mind at peace in its own innocence, standing unafraid because it has nothing to hide and nothing to run from
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 28:1
Where lion appears in the Bible
Ezekiel 1:10
As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.
1 Chronicles 11:22
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
1 Kings 7:29
and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
Lion through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 30:30
Christian Psychology
True strength in the mind does not retreat, because it has nothing to defend and therefore nothing to fear. The awakened self meets every appearance without flinching, not by conquering an enemy but by knowing there is none, so no threat can turn it from its course. What looks like courage is really the certainty of a mind that has laid down the belief in attack.
The correction is to stop mistaking hardness for strength. A mind that turns away for nothing is not braced for battle but settled in truth, and its steadiness comes from knowing that what love is cannot be opposed.
- Lion: the mind established in true strength, which does not retreat because it knows there is no real enemy to face
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Esoteric · Ezekiel 1:10
Esoteric
The 4 living creatures are the 4 powers moving in one nervous system: mind, will, labor, and spirit turning together as a single wheel. The number 4 fixes them to the flesh, the 4 corners of the body's temple, yet each face looks outward at once so a whole person is seen from every side. Reason governs, courage stands to the right, the working body bears the load, and vision lifts above all of it. These are not beasts in a sky; they are the driving forces alive in one who has awakened them.
- Man: the reasoning mind that names and weighs
- Lion: the courage and royal will seated on the right
- Ox: the laboring body that carries the daily burden on the left
- Eagle: the spirit that rises above the flesh and sees far
- The number 4: the 4 corners of the body, spirit fastened to matter
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What lion means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisJudah as a lion's cub: The lion symbolises kingship, courage and solar power. In alchemy the lion is raw energy to be transformed.Genesis 49:1-28
Commentaries on lion
Swedenborg (1887) · lion
LION, in a good sense, 8. divine truth in power. A. R. 241, 471, 574. L. s. the Lord as to his humanity, or the power of his divine truth; hence he is called the |. of the tribe of Judah. A. RK. 241. L.5. L., in a bad sense, s. the false principle destroying the truths of the Word. A. R.573.
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