Act IV, Scene iii finds Macduff offering his assistance to Malcolm, saying, “Thy royal father / Was a most sainted king; the queen that bore thee, / Oftener upon her knees than on her feet / Died every day she lived.” There is little doubt that Macduff had read the Word of God as He revealed it in of the Apostle Paul’s letters to the Corinthian church and was identifying Malcolm’s mother as a believer and a praying woman who followed Paul’s example as described in 1 CORINTHIANS 15:31: “I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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