In the book, the only weapons it mentions the Witch using during the Battle of Beruna are her wand and the stone knife.
'There were statues dotted all over the battlefield, so apparently the Witch had been using her wand. But she did not seem to be using it now. She was fighting with her stone knife.'
Peter reports that Edmund destroyed the Witch's wand, and also that he was terribly wounded, and we assume that the one happened directly after the other. The movie comes to the interesting conclusion that the Witch stabbed him with the broken end of the wand, but it's quite possible that she used the stone knife instead.
Even though Aslan was killed in Edmund's stead, that didn't mean that Edmund would never suffer hardship again, only that the ultimate price was paid by Aslan. Edmund had been forgiven, but not guaranteed a perfectly safe life as long as he lived.
If Edmund had returned to the White Witch's side again before the battle, he would never have received the wound he did, but he didn't go back. He was, in a way, being persecuted for his faith in Aslan just as many Christians are persecuted for their faith in Jesus. Being a Christian doesn't guarantee a safe life. Jesus himself was persecuted, and so shall we have hardship and opposition, sometimes even in the same forms as those He had.
'Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." '
' "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." '
Dunno if that made any sense. 😛 I just noticed that last night at like 1 in the morning.
Made sense to me. 😀 Great thought!
It makes a lot of sense, Hobbit, and it's very true. In that way, by choosing not to go back to his 'old life' shows that he was truly wanted to turn his life around even in the midst of everything terrible. I really what you wrote, so thanks for putting your thoughts together on this. 🙂
In a way it seems ironic that the first result of Edmund's act of heroism was that he was seriously hurt. Sometimes standing up for what is right can make you a more visible, vulnerable target to be knocked down. Spiritual warfare can be intense! Yet we can take heart for "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." (1 John 4:4)
Thank you for posting, Hobbit of Narnia. I'm glad you reminded us of this; it's so easy to read the stories and be so familiar with them that you stop thinking deeply about things like this.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well." - John 14:6-7a
How about Bree's assertion that Aslan wouldn't be a real lion for he would never descend so low as to have hair follicles and an adrenal cortex, etc etc. Maybe LIKE a lion, but not a lion.
This dealt with a gnostic heresy called "docetism" where Christ was considered of a heavenly substance or just a shadow, for certainly God would not have lower intestines. They forget that Christ came to reunite the heavens and earth just as the ark of the covenant, the tabernacle, and the temple did before, with the exception that as a ritually clean one, he could touch the sick, the dead, the dishonored without the uncleanliness spreading to him, but rather his cleanliness spreading to clean the unwhole, much as Isaiah experienced when his unclean lips were touched by the burning coal. Only someone all man and all God could do this, as apparently in Narnia only someone all lion and all God could appease the deep magic and yet live.
