IV. INTERPRETATIONS.
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|style="font-weight:bold;"|40. |colspan=2| |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Solomon entertains the Queen of Sheba. The Grace cup. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Solomon teaches the Queen of Sheba, "God is above." |- |style="font-weight:bold;"|39. |colspan=2|Under Solomon— |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Solomon on his throne of judgment. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Solomon praying before his temple-gate. |- | |style="font-weight:bold;"|38. |colspan=2|Under Herod— |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Massacre of Innocents. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Herod orders the ship of the Kings to be burned. |- |style="font-weight:bold;"|37. |colspan=2|Under the third King— |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Herod inquires of the Kings. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Burning of the ship. |- |style="font-weight:bold;"|36. |colspan=2|Under the second King— |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|Adoration in Bethlehem?—not certain. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|The voyage of the Kings. |- |style="font-weight:bold;"|35. |colspan=2|Under the first King— |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|a. |style="vertical-align:top;"|The Star in the East. |- | |style="font-variant:small-caps;vertical-align:top;"|b. |style="vertical-align:top;"|"Being warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod." |- |}
I have no doubt of finding out in time the real sequence of these subjects: but it is of little import,—this group of quatrefoils being of less interest han the rest, and that of the Massacre of the