Reference: Shadow
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Sometimes denotes intense darkness and gloom, Ps 23:4, and sometimes a cool retreat, Isa 33:2, or perfect protection, Ps 17:8; Isa 49:2; Da 4:12. The long shadows cast by the declining sun are alluded to in Job 7:2; Jer 6:4. The swift, never ceasing motion of a shadow is an emblem of human life, 1Ch 29:15; Ps 102:11.
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"For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
"As a slave who pants for the shade, And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,
Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You Be their strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress.
He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.
"Prepare war against her; Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!
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used in Col 2:17; Heb 8:5; 10:1 to denote the typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation.
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things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, "SEE," He says, "THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN."
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.