The Armory

"This was the basis of another day’s instruction. Here was the receptacle containing the weapons of the spiritual warfare. All the parts of the Christian panoply—'the whole armor of God'—are supplied from this store-house. And there is no stint or sparing of the supply; yea, though the host should be as the stars of heaven for multitude, there is enough for each, and enough for all, and yet to spare. Out of these supplies was CHRISTIAN himself armed and equipped ere he departed from the Palace on his homeward way.

This armory, moreover, served as a museum, or treasury of those ancient implements of the good fight of faith, by which men in olden time did fight and win their spiritual battles. These relics—not for worship, but for remembrance, were evidences of the might of other days, when the strong champions of the Lord went in and out among their people, and were jealous for Jehovah’s sovereignty, and avenged his righteous cause against all opposers. This was just such a treasury of ancient lore and deeds of faith as Paul supplies in the eleventh chapter of his Epistle to the Hebrews—that memorable record of men that lived and died in faith."[1]