The Pale Horseman: Book 2 (The Last Kingdom Series)

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Probably the intention is to denote that a part of mankind must be afflicted in this particular way, though no definite proportion is signified. They relate the circumstances attending the opening of the first four seals, and doubtless typify various phases of the trials which are permitted by God to afflict Christians on earth in common with all mankind. Other estimates say that within days a million people would be dead and two to three times that many infected. The second Horseman represents civil war as opposed to the war of conquest that the first Horseman is said to bring. In the Gospels, the denarius is repeatedly mentioned as a monetary unit; for example, the denarius was the pay of a soldier for one day, and the day labor of a seasonal worker in the harvesting of grapes is also valued at one denarius ( Matthew 20:2).

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The sword, famine, and pestilence are the traditional list of the three plagues of God's wrath, which we find in Ezechiel 6; and in Ezekiel 14 we read of God's judgments upon Jerusalem in the forms of the sword, famine, the noisome beast, and pestilence, together with the promise that a remnant shall be spared – another important theme in the Apocalypse. In Scripture, the bow has been a long-standing weapon of military triumph and the crown is the conqueror's headdress. Unlike the other three, he is not described as carrying a weapon or other object, instead, he is followed by Hades (the resting place of the dead). The second rider appears on a fiery red horse, with power to take away peace from the earth and make humans slay one another.

It was adapted as a 2016 episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. False religion and deception breaks the bond between God and His creation and leads to false systems of religion. Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Famine follows war, and when malnourishment occurs and social systems break down, human beings are more susceptible to disease. Its rider's name was Death, and Hades came close behind him; and authority was given to them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword or with famine or pestilence or by means of the wild beasts of the earth.

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litres), or enough of the less nutritious barley for three, so that workers would struggle to feed their families. When Svein anchors his fleet at the mouth of the River Parret close to their hideout, Uthred tricks the men Svein left to guard his ships and burns all but one. For the broad historical interpretation of Christ as the rider of the white horse, it is to be understood that the Antichrist does not appear until the opening of the sixth seal.After the plague had abated, the empire suffered from general distress, and its condition was very much like that which followed after the Black Death of the Middle Ages. Ariadne Oliver contacts Mark with a key connection that she has made: another victim of the Pale Horse (Mary Delafontaine) has lost her hair during her illness. Uhtred carries off one of Peredur's wives, the shadow queen Iseult, who is believed to have supernatural powers. The novel was first serialised in the British weekly magazine Woman’s Mirror in eight abridged instalments from 2 September to 21 October 1961 with illustrations by Zelinski.