Habakkuk 3:4

"And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power."

"He had rays ..." The Hebrew here actually means "horns," invariably used in scripture as emblems of power. As Hailey said, "These horns were rays of light."[16] In this light there was the hiding of his power. The foolish interpretation of this verse which supposes that we should think of, "flashes of lightning darting out of God's hand is proved to be untenable."[17] Keil further enforced that opinion by showing that it is impossible for the words to mean such a thing. This is important to remember, because one of the strategies of critical enemies of the text is that of postulating such a picture as that given by Ward:

"Yahweh comes in the guise of an armed warrior, horses and chariots, bow and quiver, in storm and lightning from his Mount Olympus in Mount Paran, and affrights land and sea with his thunder and tempest!"[18]

Of course, such an interpretation is merely for the purpose of making the God of the Hebrews as much like a Greek myth as possible. It has no validity whatever.