His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
The creature portrayed is behemoth, enormously powerful, with bones as strong as pieces of brass and like bars of iron. This portrayal stands within a description of mysteries in nature that exposes the limits of human wisdom. Even the greatest scholars cannot fully comprehend what God has made, and its unanswered questions point to the depth of God's works and the finiteness of human understanding.
The immensely strong beast pictures the Romanist persecuting power that confronted Luther on his way to Worms. It threatened to burn him alive and reduce his body to ashes as had been done to John Huss. Its devouring jaws can be entered in the name of the Lord and its teeth broken by going through fire all the way from Worms to Wittenberg with flames rising to heaven. That triumph comes by standing before its rulers and by confessing the Lord Jesus Christ.
The creature portrayed is behemoth, enormously powerful, with bones as strong as pieces of brass and like bars of iron. This portrayal stands within a description of mysteries in nature that exposes the limits of human wisdom. Even the greatest scholars cannot fully comprehend what God has made, and its unanswered questions point to the depth of God's works and the finiteness of human understanding.
The immensely strong beast pictures the Romanist persecuting power that confronted Luther on his way to Worms. It threatened to burn him alive and reduce his body to ashes as had been done to John Huss. Its devouring jaws can be entered in the name of the Lord and its teeth broken by going through fire all the way from Worms to Wittenberg with flames rising to heaven. That triumph comes by standing before its rulers and by confessing the Lord Jesus Christ.