CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 7:2. THE KING SAID AGAIN] Compare Esther 5:6. ESTHER 7:3. MY LIFE, … MY PEOPLE] Esther has had time to carefully prepare her words, and her earnest language rises to the emotionality of poetic parallelisms. We may throw her address into the following form:— If I have found... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 7:5. WHO IS HE] Ahasuerus could not really have doubted; but he affects to doubt, that he may express his anger at the act, apart from all personal considerations.—_Rawlinson_. WHO … IS HE THAT DURST PRESUME] Lit., as the margin, whose heart has filled him to do this. The ev... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 7:7.] The king went into the palace garden in order to recover from the first burst of anger, and to consider what was to be done with Haman. He stood up and besought Esther to shield him from the king’s fury. ESTHER 7:8. HAMAN WAS FALLEN UPON THE BED] In the wild emotion an... [ Continue Reading ]