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OF RECONCILIATION.
centre is Christ. The thunder-storm typifies confession, which being heard, the serpents, that is, sins and devils, are affrighted, and depart[1]. The dragon is the devil, and the merchants are preachers.
TALE XXXV.
OF RECONCILIATION THROUGH CHRIST.
A certain emperor possessed a forest, in which was an elephant whom no one dare approach. This caused his majesty no little surprise, and calling together his nobles and wise men, he asked them what was the nature of this elephant. They replied, that he mightily approved pure and modest virgins. Thereupon, the emperor would have despatched
- ↑ Here we trace the Roman Catholic; and here the fountain of gross licentiousness and unrepented iniquity may be fixed.
