The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
The verse stands among the questions God Himself puts concerning the mysteries of Jehovah made known in nature, mysteries that persons of the greatest intellect cannot understand and that the most profound scholar cannot answer. It belongs to that class of divine interrogations that expose the boundary of human thought when confronted with the works of God in the natural world.
It was not set forth to be answered, but to direct attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach the limitation of human wisdom, for even in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. It displays the infinite power by which God reveals Himself, a power over which skeptics stumble because they cannot comprehend it. Yet that very display is intended to command faith, leading to the acknowledgment of God as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension. Like the mysteries God has given both in divine revelation and in nature, it is meant to keep men ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, while confessing that an infinity still lies beyond.
The verse stands among the questions God Himself puts concerning the mysteries of Jehovah made known in nature, mysteries that persons of the greatest intellect cannot understand and that the most profound scholar cannot answer. It belongs to that class of divine interrogations that expose the boundary of human thought when confronted with the works of God in the natural world.
It was not set forth to be answered, but to direct attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach the limitation of human wisdom, for even in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. It displays the infinite power by which God reveals Himself, a power over which skeptics stumble because they cannot comprehend it. Yet that very display is intended to command faith, leading to the acknowledgment of God as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension. Like the mysteries God has given both in divine revelation and in nature, it is meant to keep men ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, while confessing that an infinity still lies beyond.