“Leave me to myself.”
And all day, till the first shadows of evening, did the king remain alone with his thoughts; nor durst any enter the vast, empty Hall of Judgment.
Tamam Shud
NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR
([1]) The Russian version of this passage reads: “... jealousy is cruel as the grave: the arrows thereof are arrows of fire.” In this, I have been given to understand, it adheres more closely than does the English Bible to the original Hebrew.
([2]) “Which is the second month...” I KINGS; vi:1.
([3]) “Which is the eighth month...” I KINGS; vi:38.
([4]) “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” PROVERBS; xxv:11.
([5]) Abimelech; i. e., Father-King.
