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A Story About King David

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Day
24
Month
September
Year
1875
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Public Domain
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Tho following extract is from au ïntersting articlo on the Talmud in the Jornhtll Magazine: " Thero is a toncliiug passage in tho iook of Psnlms- -all the moro afl'ecting romite mysteriptta wording-it passage rhioh few sincero Chrisíinus citn ïead without 'tears, in which David, wlio has ividentíy been lately stoffering somc Baious distress, prays to hc savod frc: ;bö lion's mouih, 'for,' saya he, 'Tln.u iast heard me from the horns of the unilörns.' Now hero the difficulty, cf lourse, lies in the unexpected introdiicion of tho uniconiM. Adam Qsrke satgfies himself with faying that the i'salmist alludcK to the (entiles. Not 10 Bab Hunah, in the Midra;-h TeliiJlim, vho thus cxplains the passage literally without recourso to allegorieal exegesis. Wheu David was feeding uheep he fouud jne day a unicorn sleeiing in the drsert. Ho too'k him for a high hill, and ascending pastured his ilock. Tlie beast, after iwhde, awoko, rose, and David rising vith him, touclicd the heavens with his band. Then said the son of Jesse in ths unexpected emergency, ' If the Lord will help mo down from this nnicorn.'I will build him a house of a hundred cubits, the size of this animal s hom.' Bome say he measured its widtl), others its length. Plenary agreomont on any subject in this world secins impo.ssible. What occurred i a lion carne. The qnioorn crouched in fear, and David descended. Then he beeaine anxious about tho lion, and it was on this oceaion, or soon after it, thfttthe atïocting iues abovo were compcised."

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Michigan Argus