![]() But, being able to appeal to God that what he did he did from a principle of conscience, he could with comfort commit his own cause and that of his people to him that judgeth righteously. 5:9), yet it troubled him greatly that his people should suffer for his scruples, which perhaps occasioned some of them to reflect upon him as too precise. Mordecai laid the danger to heart more than any because he knew that Haman's spite was against him primarily, and that it was for his sake that the rest of the Jews were struck at and therefore, though he did not repent of what some would call his obstinacy, for he persisted in it ( ch. It was nobly done thus publicly to espouse what he knew to be a righteous cause, and the cause of God, even when it seemed a desperate and a sinking cause. He not only thus vented his grief, but proclaimed it, that all might take notice of it that he was not ashamed to own himself a friend to the Jews, and a fellow-sufferer with them, their brother and companion in tribulation, how despicable and how odious soever they were now represented by Haman's faction. Mordecai cried bitterly, rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, v. ![]() ![]() Here we have an account of the general sorrow that there was among the Jews upon the publishing of Haman's bloody edict against them. 15-17), and we shall find that she sped well. Esther, after a religious fast of three days, promises to do so ( v. Esther objects the danger of addressing the king uncalled ( v. Mordecai urges her to intercede with the king for a revocation of the edict ( v. Esther enquires into this case, and receives a particular account of it ( v. Matters are concerted between Mordecai and Esther for the preventing of it.ฤก. The Jews' friends lay to heart the danger and lament it ( v. We left God's Isaac bound upon the altar and ready to be sacrificed, and the enemies triumphing in the prospect of it but things here begin to work towards a deliverance, and they begin at the right end.
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