Make bright - Rather, Sharpen.

The Medes (Genesis 10:2) were a branch of the great Indo-European family, who as conqueror…

Make bright the arrows. — Better, Sharpen, the “polishing” or “making bright” being the means to that end.

These words might have been addressed to the Medes as well as to the Babylonians. If the latter meaning is accepted, that is, that the Prophet addr…

Make bright the arrows
Which were covered with rust; scour them of it; anoint them with oil, as armour were accustom…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…