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In this excerpt from act IV of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, identify the biblical allusions. MALCOLM: What I believe, I'll wail; What know, believe; and what I can redress, As I shall find the time to friend, I will. What you have spoke, it may be so perchance. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest: you have loved him well; He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young; but something You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb To appease an angry god. MACDUFF: I am not treacherous. MALCOLM: But Macbeth is. A good and virtuous nature may recoil In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon; That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose; Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so. MACDUFF: I have lost my hopes. NextReset

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The second pick-able answer (To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
To appease an angry god) is the correct answer for this
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"To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb To appease an angry god. MACDUFF: I am not treacherous."

it seems to be about the episode of Jesus betrayal when Judas sold Jesus for 30 silver coin. Jesus was arrested in Garden of Gethsemane.

I'm not sure if I'm completely right

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