The first letters of the following responses tell us something that a messenger, whose feet are described as beautiful, publishes. [1] Numbers in brackets indicate the number of words in the answer.
1. In taking the whole armor of God, with what are the feet to be shod? [6]
2. What mother heard these words from her husband upon the birth of her firstborn: “The dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace”? [1]
3. Of what tribe of Israel are these words spoken: “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be”? [1]
4. The late brother-in-law of a widow who, though rejected by one near kinsman, was taken to wife by another, the matter being confirmed by removing a shoe, a custom in Israel in days of old. [1]
5. Into whose presence was an Israelite to be called, should he refuse to raise up a name to his deceased brother, thereby acquiring the title, “The house of him that hath his shoe loosed”? [1]
Answers to these questions will be found, Lord willing, in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
J. Short