The interpretation timeline

Esth 3:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Catholic

Esth 3:14 · Douay-Rheims
“And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all provinces might know and be ready against that day.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“The copy of the writ Heb. פַּתְשֶּׁגֶן, an Aramaism, the account of the writ, deresmant in Old French, text, contents, account. for an edict to be given The command of the writ was that it proclaimed that the decree of the king should be issued as a statute. published to all the peoples This matter.”
666 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“The copy of the writing, for a commandment to be given in every province, was published unto all people,.... Not only letters were sent to the governors, but a copy, or the sum of the contents of them, was published by heralds, or stuck up as with us, in various places, that it might be publicly known by the common people everywhere: that they should be ready against that day; and fall upon the people of the Jews, and slay them, and seize on their goods as a prey.”
Source
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Letter. It should appear here, as it is in Greek, but the Hebrew, &c., omitting it, the Vulgate give it, chap. xiii. 1.”
Modern · 1953 →

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