Holdeth] RM 'putteth,' or better, 'hath set.' There is a definite allusion to a recent deliverance from national ruin. Suffereth not] better, 'hath not suffered.'

10-12. The peril is described in a succession of figures, the refining furnace, the net, the burden, the prostration of the vanquished under the trampling of the victors' horses, fire, water.

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