Was the death of the soul; the body’s
This swift death-stroke representeth.”
The king, struggling with Death, is forced to confess:
“He who dares profane God’s cup,
Him he striketh down forever;
He who sinfully receives
Desecrates God’s holiest vessel!”
These are his last words. Idolatry awakens from her dream, and longs to see the light of the law of grace now while the written law reigns.
Death declares that it is foreshadowed in Gedeon’s fleece, in the manna, in the honey-comb, in the lion’s mouth, and in the shew-bread.