The interpretation timeline

Esth 3:11

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Esth 3:11 · Douay-Rheims

“And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it for thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to thee.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1771

A.D.

John Gill Reformed

1697–1771

“And the king said unto Haman, the silver is given unto thee,.... The 10,000 talents of silver Haman proposed to pay into the treasury were returned to him, or the king out of his great munificence refused to take them: the people also, to do with them as seemeth good unto thee; that is, the people of the Jews; he gave him full power to do with them as he thought fit, and who breathing revenge upon them, would not spare them.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.