Homilist Psalm 124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. I. IT IS A LIBERATION FROM A MISERABLE BONDAGE. 1. It is a bondage of the man himself. 2. It is a bondage associated with a sense of guilt. 3. It is a bondage from which God alone can deliver. II. IT IS A LIBERATION INTO A HAPPY FREEDOM. The freedom of the soul consists in the freest exercise of its intellectual faculties and spiritual powers. The freedom of the soul consists in being unconstrained by any force bur love for the infinite. "It is a glorious liberty." Glorious on account of the hero who achieved it — glorious on account of the immortal blessedness it secures. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. |
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