ACCUMULATIVE STORIES. 449

 

That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, a kid.

The following is the interpretation :
1, The kid, which was one of the pure animals, denotes the Hebrews.

The father by whom it was purchased is Jehovah, who represents Himself as sustain-
ing this relation to the Hebrew nation. The two pieces of money signify Moses and
Aaron, through whose mediation the Hebrews were brought out of Egypt.

2. The cat denotes the Assyrians, by whom the ten tribes were carried into captivity,
3. The dog is symbolical of the Babylonians.

4. The staff signifies the Persians.

5. The fire indicates the Grecian empire under Alexander the Great.

6. The water betokens the Roman, or the fourth of the great monarchies to whose
dominion the Jews were subjected,

7. The ox isa symbol of the Saracens, who subdued Palestine, and brought it under
the caliphate.

8. The butcher that killed the ox denotes the crusaders, by whom the Holy Land
was wrested out of the hands of the Saracens.

9. The angel of death signifies the Turkish power, by which the land of Palestine
was taken from the Franks, and to which it is still subject.

to. The commencement of the tenth stanza is designed to show that God will take
signal vengeance on the Turks, immediately after whose overthrow the Jews are to be

restored to their own land, and live under the government of their long-expected
Messiah.