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then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”
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Verse 26. There. This he had actually done. Calmet. 37:19. He perhaps renewed the petition, at this interview, to satisfy the king. Bible.—We may conceal the truth, but must never speak what is false. Calmet.—“In a matter, says Puffendorf, which I am not obliged to declare to another, if I cannot with safety conceal the whole, I may fairly discover no more than a part.” Who can require a privy counsellor to reveal the king’s secret? Yet Paine accuses the prophet of duplicity! Watson.
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