_The Smitten One Falling._ Here we have an additional picture of the effect of this arrow, in the pierced, wounded, and falling Eagle, gasping in its dying struggle. And that pierced, wounded, and dying Saviour whom it represents, after saying, in Ps. xxxviii. 2, “Thine arrows stick fast in Me,” added, in verse 10: “My heart panteth, My strength faileth Me, As for the light of Mine eyes it is gone from Me.” (See also Zech. xiii. 6.) The names of the stars, all of them, bear out this representation. The constellation contains 74 stars. The brightest of them, α (in the Eagle’s neck), is a notable star of the 1st magnitude, called _Al Tair_ (Arabic), _the wounding_. The star β (in the throat) is called _Al Shain_ (Arabic), _the bright_, from a Hebrew root meaning _scarlet coloured_, as in Josh. ii. 18. The star γ (in the back) is called _Tarared_, _wounded_, or _torn_. δ (in the lower wing) is named _Alcair_, which means _the piercing_, and ε (in the tail), _Al Okal_, has the significant meaning _wounded in the heel_. How can the united testimony of these names be explained except by acknowledging a Divine origin? even that of Him who afterwards foretold of the bruising of the Virgin’s Son in the written Word; yea, of Him “who telleth the number of the stars and giveth them all their names.” 3. DELPHINUS (The Dolphin). _The Dead One Rising again._ This is a bright cluster of 18 stars, five of which are of the 3rd magnitude. It is easily distinguished by the four brightest, which are in the head. It is always figured as a fish full of life, and always with the head upwards, just as the eagle is always with the head downwards. The great peculiar characteristic of the dolphin is its rising up, leaping, and springing out of the sea. When we compare this with the dying goat and falling eagle, what conclusion can we come to but that we have here the filling in of the picture, and the completion of the whole truth set forth in Capricornus? Jesus “died and rose again.” Apart from His resurrection His death is without result. In His conflict with the enemy it is only His coming again in glory which is shown forth. But here, in connection with His people, with the multitudes of His redeemed, Resurrection is the great and important truth. He is “the first‐fruits of them that slept”; then He, too, is here represented as a fish. He who went down into the waters of death for His people; He who could say “All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me” (Ps. xlii. 7), He it is who rises up again from the dead, having died on account of the sins of His redeemed, and risen again on account of their justification (Rom. iv. 25). This is the picture here. In the Persian planisphere there seems to be a fish and a stream of water. The Egyptian has a vessel pouring out water.