The interpretation timeline

Esth 5:12

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Reformed · 1 Catholic

Esth 5:12 · Douay-Rheims
“And after this he said: Queen Esther also hath invited no other to the banquet with the king, but me: and with her I am also to dine tomorrow with the king:”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“Yet all this availeth me nothing,.... Is not equal or sufficient for me; it gives me no satisfaction and contentment: so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate: not rising up to bow unto him; this single circumstance spoiled all his joy and pleasure.”
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“But me. It was thought very singular, when Artaxerxes invited his own brothers. (Plut.) — But when he also admitted a foreigner, the nobility became jealous, as that honour was reserved for the king’s relations. (Athen. i.) — Dine, or feast. Only one meal was taken, (Herodotus vii. 120.) and that in the evening. (Calmet)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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