Psalm 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you. (Psalm 45:5): — There was something very fascinating about the archery of olden times. Perhaps you do not know what they could do with the bow and arrow. Why, the chief battles fought by the English Plantagenets were with the longbow. They would take the arrow of polished wood and feather it with the plume of a bird, and then it would fly from the bowstring of plaited silk. The broad fields of Agincourt and Solway Moss and Neville's Cross heard the loud thrum of the archer's bowstring. Now, we have a mightier weapon than that. It is the arrow of the Gospel; it is a sharp arrow; it is a straight arrow; it is feathered from the wing of the dove of God's Spirit; it flies from a bow made out of the wood of the Cross. As far as I can estimate or calculate, it has brought down four hundred million souls. Paul knew how to bring the notch of that arrow on to that bowstring, and its whirr was heard through the Corinthian theatres, and through the courtroom, until the knees of Felix knocked together. It was the arrow that stuck in Luther's heart when he cried out, "Oh, my sins! Oh. my sins!" If it strike a man in the head it kills his scepticism; if it strike him in the heel it will turn his step; if it strike him in the heart, he throws up his hands as did one of old when wounded in the battle, crying, "O Galilean, Thou hast conquered!" (T. De Witt Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.WEB: Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies. |
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