The interpretation timeline

Esth 4:17

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Jewish · 1 Lutheran

Esth 4:17 · Douay-Rheims
“So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“So Mordecai passed i.e., he transgressed the law by fasting on the first festive day of Passover, for he fasted on the fourteenth, the fifteenth, and the sixteenth, since the letters were written on the thirteenth day.”
770 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1875
A.D.
Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran
1861–1875
“And Mordochai went his way, i.e., from the place before the court of the king, to do what the queen had commanded him to do.”
Modern · 1953 →

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