A penny] see on Matthew 18:28. It was a Roman coin, and the Jewish schools held it for a maxim that he whose coin was in circulation was king. The rabbis said, 'Wheresoever the money of any king is current, there the inhabitants acknowledge that king for their lord.' So in the Talmud, Abigail refuses to recognise David as king, saying, 'The money of our Lord Saul as yet is current.'

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