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Winter.

From: The New Topical Textbook

By: Reuben Archer Torrey

God makes. Psa. 74:17¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. (Psalm 74:17).

Yearly return of, secured by covenant. Gen. 8:22²²While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8:22).

Coldness and inclemency of, noticed. Prov. 20:4⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. (Proverbs 20:4), with (marg.) John 10:2²But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. (John 10:2).

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Traveling. Matt. 24:20²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: (Matthew 24:20). 2 Tim. 4:21²¹Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. (2 Timothy 4:21).

Navigation. Acts 27:9⁹Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, (Acts 27:9).

Ships were laid up in port during. Acts 27:12¹²And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. (Acts 27:12). Acts 28:11¹¹And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. (Acts 28:11).

The Jews frequently had special houses for. Jer. 36:22²²Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. (Jeremiah 36:22). Amos 3:15¹⁵And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord. (Amos 3:15).

Illustrative of seasons of spiritual adversity. SoS. 2:11.

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