The Complete Emmet Fox Biblical Symbolism Reference
...The Bible revealed (part 3)
The Bible is a powerful book rich in symbolism and metaphor for those willing to examine it. Emmet Fox was an early 20th Century New Thought Christian minister who taught of the symbolism contained within the Bible. Understanding the Bible and its symbolism is crucial to getting the most from the Bible's spiritual teachings.
This series of posts is the result of time spent over a lengthy period of time carefully taking notes on the Bible symbols that Emmet Fox mentions in his many writings. It is my sincere hope that the reader grasps the value of his message.
| Symbolic Phrase | Meaning according to Emmet Fox | Emmet Fox Book | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| East | The east traditionally stands for God. | Alter your life | 25 |
| East | The east always stands for spirit, for truth. | Diagrams For Living | 122 |
| Egypt | Egypt in the Bible, stands for materialism, sin, sickness, and death. | Alter your life | 107 |
| Egypt | Egypt in the Bible means limitation, our belief in matter, time, space, our fears - all things that clamp us down, the things that make us unhappy, and old, and bitter. Egypt is always basically the same thing - a lack of faith in God. | Ten Commandments | 14 |
| Egypt | Egypt stands for bondage. Egypt means matter, giving power to material things. Egypt means physical limitation, poverty, pain, and ill health. | Diagrams For Living | 64, 72 |
| Emerald | Emerald means Divine Life. | Diagrams For Living | 45 |
| Enemies | In the bible enemies are always our fears and doubts, our troubles and problems. | Stake your claim | 4 |
| Enemies | "The wicked" and "mine enemies" as always in the Bible , stand for our own thoughts, for our fears and doubts of every kind. | Power Through Constructive Thinking | 81 |
| Enemies | Heathens, enemies, strangers, these mean your own negative thoughts, which are the things that are causing your difficulties. They do not mean other human beings. Wrong thoughts are heathens because they do not know God. They are strangers to your real self, and, of course, they are the only enemies that you can have. All such enemies are to be destroyed, not by wrestling with them which only gives them power, but by righteous judgement - refusing to believe in them. | Make Your Life Worthwhile | 67 |
| Eve | Eve means the soul or human mind, which consists of the intellect and the feeling nature. (In the Bible, woman always means the soul.) | Alter your life | 63 |
| Evening | Evening stands for limitation, fear, trouble, or lack of some needed good. | Alter your life | 37 |
| Evil | Evil as referenced in the phrase, "For they consider not that they do evil" means that man's thoughts are often negative, and negative thoughts can only bring trouble in their wake. | Stake your claim | 37 |
| Exodus, book of | Exodus means an exit, a going or a getting out - getting out of trouble. The book of Exodus deals with the getting out of limitation, which means the getting out of evil, because all evil is limitation of one kind or another. | Ten Commandments | 4 |
| Face / face of the waters | The face stands for the power of recognition. We usually recognize people by their faces and the coming of the light is the recognition of the Truth. | Alter your life | 36 |
| Face / forehead | Face and forehead traditionally stand for intellect. | Alter your life | |
| Father | In the Bible, father means the knowledge nature. | Around the Year | 217 |
| Father and child | In the symbology of the Bible, you are a father, and your children are your works, the works of your hands, of your brain - people sometimes refer to an author's book or a man's invention, as his brain child - the things you produce, and the things you do. | Ten Commandments | 63 |
| Fear of God | In the Bible the fear of God means reverence for God, not fear in the usual sense of the word. | Make Your Life Worthwhile | 58 |
| Feet | Feet always represent understanding. | Diagrams For Living | 141 |
| Female | In the scriptures, the female stands for feeling nature. | Alter your life | 50 |
| Flee to the mountains | Pray. - Especially that quick switching of thought to the presence of God | Find and use... | 37 |
| Flying eagle | Represents the emotional nature, or the red horse. | Alter your life | 19 |
| Foot | Foot as in from "keep thy foot". Foot in the Bible stands for spiritual understanding. So keep thy foot means to maintain your spiritual understanding. | Stake your claim | 36 |
| Foot | In the Old Testament the people were told that they could claim any land which they occupied or upon which they "put their foot." In the Bible, land always means manifestation, and spiritually the foot symbolizes understanding, and in psychology concentration. The necessary understanding is, of course, to be obtained by prayer and meditation - the holy mountain. | Make Your Life Worthwhile | 189 |
| Forty (40) | In the Bible "forty" does not mean a specific number, such as 4 x 10. It is a symbol of an indefinite time. | Diagrams For Living | 34 |
| Forty days | Forty in the Bible symbology means an indefinite length of time, usually a matter of weeks. | Diagrams For Living | 155 |
| Gate | The gate is the strategic point. Those who had possession of the gate had possession of the city. In your personal life, the gates are the strongholds of consciousness. | Diagrams For Living | 20 |
| Gate | The "door" or "gate" is another very important Bible symbol. Passing through a door or gate signifies a change in consciousness. Passing from one room to another, symbolically means passing from one state of mind to another. "Gate" or "door" means understanding and it also signifies dominion or power. Understanding gives dominion and understanding comes with a change in consciousness. | Diagrams For Living | 62 |
| Gates and doors | Gates and doors always symbolize understanding. A gate or door is where we pass in or out of a city, in or out of a house. In other words, it marks a change of consciousness. The place you are in at any moment is really the state of consciousness you have at the moment. | Power Through Constructive Thinking | 96 |
| God | In Bible idiom the word "God" does not always stand for God in the sense of the Universal Creator. It may mean your own Indwelling Christ, or True Self, which of course is the Presence of God at the point where you are, for in your True Self you are an individualization of God. | Alter your life | 50 |
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