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OF FORETHOUGHT.
hand of Providence, the innocent people were freed, and the generation of the wicked utterly exterminated[1]. (121)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the king is Christ; and the queen is the soul. Am an represents the Jewish people, who seek to destroy the church. The two traitors are the Jew and the Gentile.
TALE XCVII.
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OF FORETHOUGHT.
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A certain king was desirous of ascertaining the best mode of governing himself and his
- ↑ One would imagine that the story of Mordecai could never have been actually read by the author of this tale;!t seems as if a floating tradition had been caught up and worked into the apologue of Mardocheus. The latter name is Greek, and occurs in the apocryphal continuation of the Book of Esther.