The sun, the light of God's countenance, is gone. But the fallen Christian is heard bemoaning himself ( Job 29:2, 3). A hardened sinner in such a crisis may have a light, such as it is ('Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled,' Isaiah 50:11). 'Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and, wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand.' Prostrate and powerless, he seems 'drawn unto death and ready to be slain.'Ģ. In the struggle he has been wounded in the head, the hand, and the foot. Like Christian in Bunyan's immortal allegory, he has been confronted by Apollyon. He has been no hypocrite, but a pilgrim on the highway from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. We may also use the words as describing the experience of a sinner humbled before God and man. A godly remnant could yet look forward to deliverance and revival. They may be applied also to a Church in a depressed or fallen state. Light came to them in Babylon, through the witness borne by Daniel and his friends, the ministry of Ezekiel, the favour of Cyrus, and above all by their deliverance from the curse of idolatry before their restoration to their land. Prout The truths here taught might be applied to the people of Israel, with whom the prophet identifies himself, when humbled before exulting foes like the Edomites ( Obadiah 1:8-15) or their Chaldean conquerors.

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