[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 2: “Which _is_ the second month...” _I KINGS; vi:1_.]
[Footnote 3: “Which _is_ the eighth month...” _I KINGS; vi:38_.]
[Footnote 4: “A word fitly spoken _is like_ apples of gold in pictures
of silver.” _PROVERBS; xxv:11_.]
[Footnote 5: Abimelech; _i. e._, Father-King.]