People
You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
— Oliver Cromwell
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A stern, impatient dismissal: those addressed have stayed too long without doing real good, and the speaker wants them gone. Invoking God, the closing order raises the demand from complaint to moral command, leaving no room for argument.
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