God punishes as if an enemy; bow and right hand

For even in the temple the enemies dared the slaughters, God permitting. And well the “as an enemy”; for God does not punish as being hostile, but wanting to benefit either those suffering or those seeing. And he calls the temple a tent according to the sanctuary from the beginning, and a bow the punishing power as in Habakkuk: “stretching you will stretch your bow upon the scepters, says the Lord”—clearly the opposing rulers and authorities. And the Son, being right hand of God and Father, strongly contended, having also destroyed the idols which they set in the temple of God (for these are desire of eyes), having killed instead of the idols the demons that settled in.