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OF ADULTERY.

ascertaining the injury that had been done him, assumed the place of a judge,—sentenced her to death, and immediately executed the sentence.


APPLICATION.

My beloved, the king is our heavenly Father; the lion is Christ, and the lioness the soul. The leopard is the devil, and the fountain is confession, which being closed, death presently follows.