| A | B |
|---|
| anchor | safety, security, hope, faith |
| ark | safety, Christ |
| chaff | uselessness |
| clay | fraility of human flesh |
| dust | humanity, contempt, human faility |
| Egypt | worldliness, bondage |
| field | the (civilized) world |
| fire | judgment, God's purifying & testing; Holy Spirit; destruction; religious fervor |
| hail | divine jugment; hard truths |
| hammer | Word of God |
| horn | control, jurisdiction; strength, power; king or kingdom |
| key | power to bind/loose; (two or three, crossed) St. Peter |
| lamp | spirit of man, spirit of God, word of God; Scriptures |
| leprosy | sin, death, punishment |
| locust | destructive power of darkness |
| mirror (glass) | reflection of Word of God in human lives |
| mountains | kingdoms, strong religious or religio-political powers or governments |
| oil | Holy Spirit, annointing |
| sackcloth | mourning, sorrow; repentance |
| salt | incorruptible life; preservation; covenant |
| sand | incorruptible life, preservation, covenant |
| scepter | power, authority, rulership |
| sea | restless masses of humanity, unruly and lawless |
| sickle | reaping; Word of God; harvest, end of world |
| stiff-neckedness | stubbornness, resistance to authority |
| sweat | man's effort and work |
| tabernacle | humanity's temporal existence |
| gold | power, sun, heaven; worldy wealth valued over spiritual |
| whoredoms | unfertile wilds; spiritual desolation; idolatry or false doctrines |
| wilderness | dry places without God |
| yoke | servitude, slavery, fellowship |
| water | cleansing, Holy Spirit, everlasting life |
| seed | descendants, Jesus |
| moon | passage of time & life; Mosaic law; (crescent) Mary (beneath her feet) |
| ruby | blood of Christ |
| harvest | end of the world |
| reapers | angels; God's servants |
| ashes, dead coals | penance, transitory nature of this life |
| stars | angels, messengers; spiritual instruction; those who radiate light |
| Jordan | death |
| rock | truth, Jesus; God, His solidity, firmness, strength |
| sun | the gospel, Jesus |
| winds | strife, commotion, "winds of war" |
| sword | word of God |
| mandorla | divine approval |
| honey | happy life, blessedness |
| clothing or garments | character; covering of righteouness |
| ring | authority; unbreakable union; eternity |
| Babylon | apostasy, confusion, rebellion |
| mark or seal | seal or mark of approval or disapproval |
| white robes | victory, righteousness |
| jar or vessel | person |
| trumpet | warning (of God's approach) |
| healing | salvation (cf. shalom) |
| well | baptism, rebirth, other water qualities |
| famine | dearth of truth; lack of spiritual nourishment |
| arrow | those who have dedicated their lives to God |
| earth | society, not dust or mud |
| air | spiritual powers |
| water | truth |
| hills | similar to mountains: smaller kingdoms |
| valley | the meek and lowly whome God loves; sometimes, a place of blessing |
| islands | periblican governements; organizations of people |
| city | a religious government; City of God |
| fountain | salvation, baptism, rebirth; crucified Christ as living fountain |
| ax | destruction |
| bell | voice of God calling faithful to worship; exorcism; lepers |
| belt, girdle | humility, chastity, preparation to serve God |
| barn | place where wheat is taken, ways from field and tares; heaven |
| rainbow | promise, pardon, forgiveness; union, covenant keeping |
| rain | blessing |
| lightning | flashes or diffusions of light and knowledge |
| earthquake | revolution |
| still, small voice | God's word of truth, love, and wisdom speaking to His people |
| wine | doctrine |
| bread | life-sustaining truth, Jesus or Truth; Word of God |
| linen | righteousness |
| crown | immortality |
| robe | righteousness |
| shield | faith and truth |
| candlestick | light-bearer, the true Church |
| incense altar | the true Church in sacrificing condition; devotions, prayers |
| brazen altar | Jesus' sacrifice |
| table of shewbread | the true Chruch holding forth the Word of Truth |
| Ark of the Covenant | eternal purpose of God: blassing the world through Christ and the Church |
| Manna | immortality |
| Aaron's rod | divine authority given to royal priesthood |
| laver | cleansing, righteous living |
| veil | modesty, chastity |
| blood | life |
| cup | suffering and judgment; Chist'a agony in the Garden of Gethsamane |
| door | opportunity, probation; entry; feminine symbol, often in Annunciation |
| fornication | illicit connection between Church and the world |
| harlot | apostate church or religion |
| incense | prayers of God's people |
| book | learning, teaching, writing, wisdom; new covenant aspect of Bible (Evangelists, Apostles, Doctors of Church); New Testament |
| scroll | authorship, writings, wisdom; old covenant aspect of the Bible (Prophets); Old Testament |
| open book | wisdom & truth through knowledge; (with alpha and omega) Christ |
| closed book | mystery |
| box | heart, brain, or bowwomb |
| bow | war, hostility, temporal worldly power |
| candle | (lighted) individual life; (at Nativity) light of Christ in world |
| coat, cloak | dignity |
| column | (single with Christ Child) foretells Passion & flagellation; (toppling) flight into Egypt |
| egg | purity, chastity, fertily; resurrection |
| feather | faith and contemplation |
| quill pen | Word of God |
| garden (walled) | chastity; Virgin Mary |
| gate | entrance and exit; access to heaven or hell |
| glass | incarnation, purity, Virgin Mary |
| globe or orb | the world; sovereignty, worldly power; (with cross on top) victory of Christ & Church over world |
| harp | all music that glorifies God |
| hourglass | Time, brevity of life |
| skeleton | death or Death |
| ladder | Christ's deposition from the cross |
| lance | Longinus, the centurian who pierced the side of Christ at the Crucifixion |
| ruins | (usually Classical) decay of the pagan world |
| scythe | destruction, death |
| ship | the Church |
| shoes, sandals | (discarded with owners nearby) holy ground; humility |
| staff | pilgrim, hermit |
| stones | mortification of the flesh |
| tablets | Ten Commandments, Jewish faith, Synagogue as opposed to Church |
| torch | (flaming) Christ as light of the world |
| wafer | Eucharist; manna |
