George Leo Haydock, on Esth 4:3

“And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king’s cruel edict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, wailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.”

“Edict. Literally, “dogma;” (Haydock) a word used in this sense, (Acts xv. 16.) and by Demosthenes, &c. (Tirinus) — Mourning. The most effectual means of redress, is to do works of penance for past transgressions, 1 Corinthians xi. 31. (Worthington)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.