The
Book of Esther
Chapter
8:1-2, 15
2 And the King took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai: and Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
15 And
Mordecai went out from the King in royal apparel of blue, and white,
and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and
purple, and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Brethren:
Those that are lowly, shall be raised up, and those that sit in haughtiness and arrogance, shall be brought down. (Read Proverbs 29:2; Luke 1:52)
Those that are lowly, shall be raised up, and those that sit in haughtiness and arrogance, shall be brought down. (Read Proverbs 29:2; Luke 1:52)
“That,
and all the goods in it, and estate belonging to it; which being
confiscated to the king, he gave to Esther, who would have been the
sufferer, had his scheme taken place; so the Targum adds; 'and the
men of his house, and all his treasures, and all his riches:' and
Mordecai came before the king; was introduced into his
presence, became one of his privy counsellors, one of those that saw
the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom. For
Esther had told what he was unto her; what relation he stood
in to her; her uncle, according to the Vulgate Latin version, and so
Aben Ezra and Josephus, but wrongly, for she was his uncle's
daughter; so that they were brother's children, or own. Not only the
Jews in it, but the native inhabitants of it, that had any sense of
humanity, expressed their joy at the sight of Mordecai thus arrayed;
that so good a man was advanced at court, and so bad a man as Haman
was displaced and put to death.” - John Gill - Theologian
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