Psalm 7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. Polarity, as it is called, exhibits both attraction and repulsion, and at the same pole attraction and repulsion, and by the same law, at the same pole, attraction and repulsion. At the same pole the magnet attracts and repels. And Divine benevolence has polarity. At the same pole it attracts and repels. By the same law it attracts and repels. By the same eternal, Divine necessity it attracts and repels. With the same Divine force it attracts and repels. Its attraction is love, its repulsion is wrath; but wrath is love turned round, and both wrath and love are the opposing poles of that one attribute. Hence it is the more to be regretted, and the more to be lamented, that so many ministers of Christ, not to say members of the Church of God, have wrong conceptions of the wrath of God. Watts was wrong when he made the Psalm to say of God — "Whose anger is so slow to rise, So ready to abate."The fact is, God's anger never rises, and it never abates. It is always at flood tide, at the flood mark; and that is the mark of infinite perfection. It does not go up and down, like the impulsive, impetuous, and capricious passions of men. It is an everlasting principle, not a passion at all — an everlasting principle — eternal love of righteousness, eternal detestation of unrighteousness. (A. F. Pierson.) Parallel Verses KJV: If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.WEB: If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. |
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