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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.
OF FORETHOUGHT.
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.
