CHAPTER XVII.
GLOSSARY.
These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, — He that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth: “I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” — Revelation.
IN Christian Science we learn that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scriptural word often elucidates the meaning of the inspired writer. On this account this chapter is added. It contains the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms, — giving their spiritual sense, which is also their original meaning.
Abel. Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to
the Creator the early fruits of experience.
Abraham. Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and
eternal Principle of Being.
This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in Good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.
Adam. Error; a falsity; the belief in “original sin,”
sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of Good, or God,
and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter,
finiteness, and mortality; “dust to dust;” red
sandstone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not
God's man, who represents the one God, and is His own
