And this Second Book closes by revealing to us this glorious “Breaker.”
3. PERSEUS (“The Breaker.”)
“The Breaker” delivering His Redeemed.
Here we have set before us a mighty man, called in the Hebrew Peretz, from which we have the Greek form Perses, or Perseus (Rom. xvi. 13). It is the same word which is used of Christ in Micah ii. 13. When He shall surely “gather the remnant of Israel” (v. 12), it is written—
“THE BREAKER is gone up before them....
Their King is passed on before them,
And the Lord at the head of them.”
This is what is pictured to us here. We see a glorious “Breaker” taking His place before His redeemed, breaking forth at their head, breaking down all barriers, and breaking the heads of Leviathan and all his hosts. In His right hand He has His “sore, and great, and strong sword” lifted up to smite and break down the enemy. He has wings on His feet, which tell us that He is coming very swiftly. In His left hand He carries the head of the enemy, whom he has slain.
In the Denderah Zodiac His name is Kar Knem, he who fights and subdues.