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Esth 8:12

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Esth 8:12 · Douay-Rheims
“And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out,.... Or on the mules, which in the Persian language were called "ahashteranim"; See Gill on Est 8:10, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; who gave them a special order to make what haste they could, that the Jews might have time to prepare for their defence, and their enemies be the more intimidated: and the decree was given at Shushan the palace; the king's counsellors agreeing to it, and perhaps signing it, as they did the former; see Est 3:15.”
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Modern · 1953 →

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