DREAM. By this word are to be understood likewise those vain Images, which are formed in the imagination while we are asleep, and have no relation to prophecy, or the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. Job xx. 8.Job; He shall fly away as a Dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. And Isaiah, The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, against Jerusalem, shall be as a Dream of a night-vision. It shall be even as a hungry man dreameth, and behold he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold he drinketh, but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. See also Psalm lxxii. 20. Eccl. v. 2, 6.
Isa. lv. 1.To DRINK. We have said something which has a relation to drinking in the Article Cup. Isaiah invites all those who thirst, to come and drink wine and milk without money and without price; he speaks of the Messiah’s time, and of those fountains of our Isa. xii. 3.Saviour, which he mentions in another place; With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And Jesus Christ promises the woman of Samaria living water, John iv. 11.which should for ever satisfy the thirst of those, who should drink of it. Job says, Job xv. 16. Job xxxiv. 7.the wicked drinketh iniquity like water. Elihu reproaches Job with drinking up scorning like water; and Rhabshakeh says, that Hezekiah designed to persuade the Jews into a resolution of holding out the siege of Jerusalem, that he might reduce them to the necessity of drinking their own 2 Kings xviii. 27.urine; that is to say, of exposing themselves to the utmost extremities of a siege.
Prov. v. 15.The Wise-man exhorts his disciple to drink water out of his own cistern; that is to say, to content himself with the lawful pleasures of marriage, without thinking on that which was prohibited by the Law. To eat and drink is used in Ecclesiastes to signify Eccl. v. 18.people’s enjoying themselves: It is good and comely for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour; and in the Gospel for living in a common and ordinary manner. Matth. xi. 18.John came eating and drinking, and ye say he hath a devil; the Son of Man cometh eating and drinking, and ye say he is a glutton and a winebibber. In Noah’s time, when God sent the Deluge, and in Lot’s, when he destroy’d Luke xxvii. 16, 17, 18.Sodom, men eat and drank after their usual manner, without distrusting any thing. The Apostles say, they eat and drank with Jesus Christ after his resurrection, that they conversed, that they lived with him. Acts x. 41.
1 Kings xx. 12. Psal. lxix. 13.To DRINK is likewise used for entertaining, and diverting one’s self at table. Benhadad King of Syria drank in his tent with his allies. And the Psalmist, they who drank wine made songs upon me. To eat and drink before the Lord, signifies to make Job i. 13, 18. Judith xii. 72.religious feasts in the Temple. To drink wine, signifies to make a feast: for in common repasts, the company was not served Cant. vi. Isai. xxii. 13. 2 Kings xix. 24. Compare Isa. xxxvii. 25.with wine.
I have drunk strange waters, says Sennacherib, and with the the soal of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. I have drunk up the water belonging to the people through whose country I have marched my armies; I have exhausted their wells and their cisterns. Jeremiah reproaches the Jews with having had recourse to Egypt for muddy water to drink, and with having addressed themselves to the Assyrians, that they might drink the water of their river; that is to say, with having fought for the water of Nile in Egypt, and the water of the Ezek. xxxix. 18. Jer. Lament. v. 4. Ezek. iv. 11. 2 Sam. xxiii. 16, 17.Euphrates in Assyria, thereby describing the assistance of these two people.
To DRINK Blood, signifies to be satiated with slaughter; Ye shall drink the blood of the Princes of the earth; ye shall put them to death. David refused to drink the water which three gallant men of his army went and procured for him at the hazard of their lives, saying, God forbid that I should drink the blood of these men. Jesus Christ commands us to drink his blood and to eat his flesh. We eat and drink both one and the other really; but nevertheless spiritually and mystically in the Eucharist. To drink water by measure, and buy water to drink, denote the utmost scarcity and an extreme desolation. Upon Fasts the Jews abstained from eating and drinking for the whole day, believing it to be equally of the essence of a Fast to suffer thirst as well as hunger.