| 1 | A. God has so decreed it. | |
| 2 | They caballed against the emperor's edict. | |
| 3 | The news of Haman's cruel decree was soon spreaded. | |
| 4 | But the edict of the king prepared by Haman had not been cancelled and so was still in effect. | |
| 5 | In the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Shun Zhi(1656), a government delegation visited Beijing with the proclamation of the Russian Czar. |