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386 hand of Providence, the innocent people were freed, and the generation of the wicked utterly exterminated. (121)

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.

king was desirous of ascertaining the best mode of governing himself and his