Symbol Dictionary — Righteousness by Faith

Every symbol defined in this handbook, alphabetically (leading articles ignored), with its receipts and owning section.

altar of incense = the place of intercession before God, where prayer is offered; the west-side piece of the Holy Place, set apart against the veil (Exo. 30:1; Psa. 141:2; Rev. 8:3; PP 353.2). — defined in "The Altar of Incense — Prayer and the Spirit".
altar of sacrifice (= forgiveness) = the place where the sinner's guilt is lifted because a Substitute has been slain in his stead (Lev. 1:3-5; Mark 2:5; John 8:11). — defined in "The Altar of Sacrifice — Forgiveness".
beholding (= becoming) = the law that the soul takes the character of whatever it steadily contemplates, so to look on the glory of the Lord is to be remade into it (2 Cor. 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Col. 3:10). — defined in "Beholding We Are Changed — Truth the Sanctifier".
blood (= the ransom) = the life of the Substitute poured out as the purchase-price of the sinner's pardon (Lev. 17:11; Eph. 1:7; Matt. 26:28). — defined in "The Altar of Sacrifice — Forgiveness".
bread / the Word = the spoken Word of God as the soul's food and life — and that Word is a Person, Christ Himself (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4; John 1:1, 14). — defined in "Beholding We Are Changed — Truth the Sanctifier".
candlestick (= light / good works) = the lamp-stand of beaten gold = the believer's and the church's good works, holding forth Christ's light before men so as to draw others to faith (Exo. 25:31, 37; Matt. 5:14-16; Rev. 1:20; Zech. 4:2; SSP 197.2, 367.2). — defined in "The Candlestick — the Light of Good Works".
consuming fire = the manifested glory and presence of God, which no sin can survive (Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29; Exod. 24:17). — defined in "The Most Holy Place — Glorification".
death (the penalty of sin) = the sentence the broken law demands — separation from the God who is life, the debt the substitute must satisfy (Gen. 2:17; Ezek. 18:4; Rom. 6:23). — defined in "Two Things to Be Dealt With — Death and Separation".
divine nature = a real participation in God's own life and character, given to the believer, by which sin is overcome and the image restored (2 Pet. 1:4; COL 314.2). — defined in "The Laver — Power to Overcome".
express image = the perfect, exact representation of God's person and character — Christ as the engraved likeness of the invisible God (Greek charakter) (Heb. 1:3; Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 4:4; 1SM 264.2). — defined in "Christ — the Express Image, the Life".
faith which worketh by love = the only faith that justifies — faith that does the law from love, the faith of Christ in the believer, never bare assent (Gal. 5:6; GTI 209.4; Gal. 2:20). — defined in "Justification — Faith, Forgiveness, Power as One".
flesh = the fallen, sinful nature, weak and not yet changed, carried even by the sanctified until His coming (Rom. 8:3). — defined in "The Most Holy Place — Glorification".
gate (= faith) = the single entrance into the court of salvation — Christ received by believing, the gift of God, the hand that lays hold of His merits (John 10:9; Heb. 11:6; Eph. 2:8; AG 315.4). — defined in "The Gate — Faith".
gate / door = The single entrance from earth into the presence of God, exclusive — there is no other way in (Gen. 28:17; John 10:9; DA 477.3). — defined in "The Ladder, the Gate, the House of God — Christ the Sanctuary".
glass / mirror = the law, the transcript of God's character, in which His glory is beheld — and the mirror that shows self its defects (2 Cor. 3:18; 1SM 240.3; 1SM 317.2). — defined in "Sanctification — the Daily Transformation".
glory (of God) = the character of God, His goodness made visible (Exo. 33:18-19; AG 322.2; TMK 131.3). — defined in "The Image of God, and What Sin Lost".
good works = the visible fruit of Christ's life in the soul, wrought by His Spirit — the sign of righteousness, never its source (Eph. 2:10; Titus 2:14; Gal. 5:22-23; GTI 104.2). — defined in "The Candlestick — the Light of Good Works".
the gulf / separation = the impassable moral chasm sin set between man and God, severing communion and cutting earth off from heaven (Isa. 59:2; Luke 16:26; SC 20.1). — defined in "Two Things to Be Dealt With — Death and Separation".
holy place = SANCTIFICATION — the second stage: the daily, continual walk by Word, light, and prayer (Heb. 9:2, 6; 1 Th. 5:23; 1SM 317.2; CCh 51.2). — defined in "The Three Compartments — Justification, Sanctification, Glorification".
house of God / sanctuary = The place God chooses for his dwelling among men, fulfilled in the body of Christ (Gen. 28:17; Exo. 25:8; 1 Chr. 28:10; John 2:21). — defined in "The Ladder, the Gate, the House of God — Christ the Sanctuary".
image of God = the likeness of God in man — His character reproduced in a created being, in outward resemblance and in character, not in attributes like immortality or omnipotence (Gen. 1:26-27; Gen. 5:1; PP 45.2; SYNPT 117.1). — defined in "The Image of God, and What Sin Lost".
incense (= prayer) = the prayers of the saints ascending to God, made fragrant by Christ's righteousness and presented by the Spirit (Psa. 141:2; Rev. 5:8; Rev. 8:3-4; CIS 61.2). — defined in "The Altar of Incense — Prayer and the Spirit".
justification = God's act of making a man just — faith counted for righteousness, the sin pardoned, and power given to do the law, never one without the others (Mark 2:5, 10-12; Rom. 4:5; Rom. 8:4; WOR 66.3; 1SM 366.1). — defined in "Justification — Faith, Forgiveness, Power as One".
ladder = The one connection between earth and heaven since the fall, base on earth and top in heaven, the road the angels travel; claimed by Christ (Gen. 28:12; John 1:51; 19MR 338.4). — defined in "The Ladder, the Gate, the House of God — Christ the Sanctuary".
the Lamb / Substitute = the innocent victim that takes the sinner's place and bears his guilt, slain that the guilty may go free (Lev. 1:4; John 1:29; Isa. 53:6). — defined in "The Altar of Sacrifice — Forgiveness".
laver (= power / regeneration) = the basin of cleansing water by which the pardoned sinner is washed, regenerated, and given power to walk and sin no more (Ex. 30:18-21; Titus 3:5; Ezek. 36:25-27). — defined in "The Laver — Power to Overcome".
the law (as image of God) = the written transcript / photograph of God's character; kept whole, it is a perfect reflection of God, so its doer lives (Lev. 18:5; Ps. 19:7; COL 305.3; GC 467.1; WOR 42.5). — defined in "The Law — an Image of God".
the Life = the eternal life that is the exclusive property of God, original, unborrowed, and underived, dwelling in Christ as in the Father (John 14:6; John 1:4; John 5:26; DA 530.3; 5BC 1130.3). — defined in "Christ — the Express Image, the Life".
light = the life and character of Christ shining out, the Image of God made visible (John 1:4, 9; 8:12; MB 40.1; COL 416.2). — defined in "The Candlestick — the Light of Good Works".
likeness of sinful flesh = the same sinful flesh all born of woman wear, taken without participating in its sin; "likeness" denies His own guilt, not the reality of His flesh (Rom 8:3; WOR 126.6; 1SM 256.1). — defined in "The Nature of Christ — Tempted in All Points".
love = the single principle the whole law reduces to; the royal law and the fulfilling of the law; not feeling but the keeping of the commandments (Rom. 13:10; James 2:8; 1 John 4:8; 1 John 5:3). — defined in "The Law — an Image of God".
most holy place = GLORIFICATION — the third and final stage: the unveiled presence of God, the final atonement, the redeemed brought home and made like Him (Heb. 9:3, 7; Rom. 8:30; GC 414.2; AA 320.2). — defined in "The Three Compartments — Justification, Sanctification, Glorification".
name (of God) = the character of God spoken out, His attributes proclaimed (Exo. 33:19; 34:5-7). — defined in "The Image of God, and What Sin Lost".
the narrow way / daily walk = the upward road of sanctification, entered by faith and trodden by daily choosing, on which the redeemed walk in Christ toward the Father's house (Matt. 7:14; John 14:6; Luke 13:24; MB 138.2; MB 140.1). — defined in "The Daily Walk to Heaven — Entering Sanctification".
new heart = the renewed inward man God gives at regeneration, from which obedience flows (Ezek. 36:26; 2 Cor. 5:17). — defined in "The Laver — Power to Overcome".
old man / new man = the corrupt fallen self put off, and the Christ-formed self put on, created in righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:9-10; GTI 156.1). — defined in "Sanctification — the Daily Transformation".
outer court = JUSTIFICATION — the first stage: pardon received and power given, peace with God, the worshipper brought from outside in (Exo. 27:9; Rom. 5:1; 1 Cor. 6:11; FW 103.2). — defined in "The Three Compartments — Justification, Sanctification, Glorification".
reconciliation = the closing of the gulf through the blood of the cross, the death-penalty paid as the means that bridges the separation (Col. 1:20-21; 2 Cor. 5:18-19; Rom. 5:10). — defined in "Two Things to Be Dealt With — Death and Separation".
restoration (of the image) = the whole work of the plan of salvation — the re-creating of God's marred image (His character and likeness) in man, by Christ the express image, through the Spirit and the truth, until the believer reflects God as Adam did and more (Ed 15.2; AG 11.5; CIS 104.3; Rom. 8:29). — defined in "The Image Restored — the Whole in One View".
sanctification = the lifelong setting-apart of the whole man — spirit, soul, body — by which God restores His image in the believer, changing him from glory to glory until he is like Christ; the daily walk of the Holy Place — Pray, Read, Do (1 Th. 5:23; 2 Cor. 3:18; 1SM 317.2; COL 65.2; CWCP 81.1). — defined in "Sanctification — the Daily Transformation".
sanctuary = the appointed place where God dwells with His people, the figure of the whole plan of salvation (Exo. 25:8; Heb. 9:9; Ev 222.2). — defined in "The Three Compartments — Justification, Sanctification, Glorification".
the seed of David / our nature = the actual fallen human flesh, weakened by four thousand years of sin, which the Son of God took without its guilt, and in which He overcame (Rom 1:3; Heb 2:14, 16; Rom 8:3; 1SM 253.1; 1SM 256.1; DA 49; DA 117.2; DA 311.5). — defined in "The Nature of Christ — Tempted in All Points".
shewbread / bread (= the Word, daily) = the Word of God set on the table and eaten continually, by which the soul lives and is renewed into His image (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4; John 6:51, 63; John 1:1, 14). — defined in "The Table of Shewbread — Daily the Word".
sin = the transgression of the law — and therefore the marring of the image of God it draws (1 John 3:4; Rom. 7:7). — defined in "The Law — an Image of God".
table of shewbread = the place where the Word of God is set continually before the LORD, the soul's daily food in the sanctified walk (Ex. 25:23, 30; Lev. 24:5-8). — defined in "The Table of Shewbread — Daily the Word".
truth (the sanctifier) = the revealed character of God in His Word, the means by which the beholder is made holy (John 17:17; John 8:32; Rom. 12:2). — defined in "Beholding We Are Changed — Truth the Sanctifier".