DOVE, THE

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Clean and used as food

Deuteronomy 14:11

Offered in sacrifice

Genesis 15:9 Leviticus 1:14

Impiously sold in the court of the temple

Matthew 21:12 John 2:16

Mournful tabering of, alluded to

Dwells in rocks

Song of Solomon 2:14 Jeremiah 48:28

Frequents streams and rivers

Song of Solomon 5:12

Sent from the ark by Noah

Genesis 8:8 Genesis 8:10 Genesis 8:12

Why considered the emblem of peace

The harbinger of spring

Song of Solomon 2:12

CHARACTERISED BY

Simplicity

Comeliness of countenance

Song of Solomon 2:14

Softness of eyes

Song of Solomon 1:15

Sweetness of voice

Song of Solomon 2:14

Richness of plumage

ILLUSTRATIVE

Of the Holy Spirit

Matthew 3:16 John 1:32

Of the meekness of Christ

Song of Solomon 5:12

Of the church

Song of Solomon 2:14 Song of Solomon 5:2

Of mourners

Isaiah 38:14 Isaiah 59:11

Of converts to the church

(In its flight,) of the return of Israel from captivity