Psalms 9:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there ever a prophecy more pointed than this, or ever an event more strikingly fulfilled, than when Christ's enemies came to apprehend him in the garden, and Jesus, by a word speaking, caused them to go backward, and fall upon their faces to the earth? Was there ever an instance, in the annals of the world, of such an event taking place by the breath of the mouth? Reader, I pray you, turn to the account of this in the gospel: John 18:5-6. Mark the miracle well, and then pause in contemplating how the glory of the Godhead must have burst through the manhood of Christ to testify who Jesus was in such a memorable moment. And although it brought no conviction to their minds, yet what a blessed and overpowering testimony doth it give, and hath all along given to the Church, whom it was designed to instruct in so precious a doctrine, who Jesus is and was, and in whom we believe. Oh! thou condescending God! how gracious was this discovery of thyself.