The Triumph of Faith

Goliath, the Philistine giant, must be taken as the representative, as the very personification, of that god­less anti-Christian power in the world that comes to a head in the godless state and is active as the devil's instrument, from whom it also derives its power and authority. In the book of Revelation this power ap­pears as the beast upon whose head is written the name of blasphemy and who opens his mouth in blasphemy against God to rail at His name, His tabernacle and those that dwell in...