heart of the sea.’ In the 9th verse he magnifies the victory from the vainglory and security of the enemy: ‘The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil,’ &c. And ver. 16, 17, he prophetically describes the fruit of this victory in the influence it shall have upon those nations by whose confines they were to travel to the promised land: ‘Fear and dread shall fall upon them: by the greatness of thy arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, which thou