... the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader ... ...

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