Anyone know please what heraldic significance is meant where David Niven draws an arrow through the crest on his notepaper? I'm interested because I've got an old family signet ring which has precisely this on its engraving, and I haven't found anywhere to tell me why!
shareI don't think it has any heraldic significance. I think it symbolises what he knew would happen when he went back.
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An arrow in heraldry means its bearer is ready to do battle; combined with another element or icon, it might mean something different.
Maybe it means he is ready to fight for his family's honor, or to do battle against whatever evil is creating the problem in the vineyard?
The arrow has been a symbol of wisdom, and truth. Depending on the time era, and actual use of it as a symbol is debatable according to the expert and treatise.
Consider the title, story, and plot of Eye of the Devil with some of my personal work in the following.
Hermeneutics: Truth and Being
The question of existence as the involved ministers of what is understood commonly as a “Faith” which has personal allegiance that as empire as government must by governance give liberties to the people who prescribe such ideals. Apart from a scientific understanding the act of will (L. Animus; Animus Aeger) by compassion as the human response to how metaphysical divine truth is determined by internalization of such free will to accept that as a standard creed. Which to the Roman Empire a plea to the authority to accept the Christian doctrines and missionaries as objective in their missions throughout the empire which as “fellow citizens” (2:19 Ephesians, Holy Bible) the objective understanding may permissively be allowed as accepted creeds and or doctrines accepted as faith principles by their Christian followers as “Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation” (1:17 Ephesians, Holy Bible).
The affirmation of such beliefs by faith within the empire of Rome to allow such persons to congregate that the establishment of government is not threatened. The “unity” of the faith based doctrines is in recognition of the provincial government that legally binds the government, however faith is desired to be acknowledge by them as individual conscience “members together as one body”, and meta-physical interpretation “surpasses knowledge” (3:6, 16-21 Ephesians, Holy Bible). Thus, vocational experts, as missionaries (L. quid agam), are pleaded to the authority of the empire of Rome for permission to travel, pray, preach, and teach (4:11 Ephesians; 1:28 Romans Holy Bible).
The act of will by knowing what is “God’s will” (1:10 Romans Holy Bible) in all citizens who prescribe by the faith can then be acknowledged as “mutually faithful” (1:12 Romans, Holy Bible) by such obedience. This sense of “Wisdom” can then be discerned as the teaching from the Eastern empire to the Western empire that the “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom”, but also the “Incarnate Word” (Gk. Logos) as teaching God’s will. The “righteousness” (1:17 Romans, Holy Bible) by nature as “obedience from faith” (1:5 Romans, Holy Bible) justifies how and why their faith in personal and mutual salvation is an act of faith, and “esprit de corps” spiritual bond of unity as the Holy Spirit residing in the fellowship of Pentecost. Also, why their faith and compassion can transcend to others “against the spiritual forces of evil” (6:12 Ephesians, Holy Bible), and or prevention of “Invent ways of doing evil” (1:30 Romans, Holy Bible).
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Beare, Francis W. The Interpreter’s Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians; Introduction and Exegesis. Vol X Nashville: Abingdon-Codesbury Press 1954 pgs 743-746
Cassel’s New Latin Dictionary. Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1960
“Faith”, and “Fideism”. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford University Press 1974 pgs 499, 511
“Hypostatic Union”. The Catholic Encylcopedia. Vol 7 New York: Robert Appleton Co. 1910 17th July 2013
Intl. Bible Society. The Holy Bible, New Intl. Version (NIV) NIV Study Bible 10th Ed. Zondervan Corp. 1995
Know, John. The Interpreter’s Bible: The Epistle to the Romans; Introduction and Exegesis. Vol IX Nashville: Abingdon-Codesbury Press 1954 pgs 359, 380
McCasland S.V. The Interperter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. “Will of God”. Vol IV New York: Abingdon Press 1962 Ed. pg 847
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Andrew Drazdik Jr
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I've come to view it as a metaphor to prepare us for his fate later in the film. That was Phillppe's way of telling us he knew what his fate would be. The bird in the family crest represents him or how he sees himself. The arrow represents the way in which he is to die. By the time he does this, he is prepared for his fate and this is his way of coming to grips with his fate.
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