The Book of Esther
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
- Kapitel 10 -
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(a)15:1 Or, he made a tribute, i.e., he collected a tribute from all the lands and islands.(Conte)
(b)10:4
Mordecai said, etc: Here St. Jerome advertises the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the Hebrew, or added by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.(Challoner)
(c)15:5
A dream: This dream was prophetical and extraordinary: otherwise the general rule is not to observe dreams.(Challoner)
(d)15:10 The command that there be two lots means that there would be two different fates or two different end results, one for the people of God and the other for the nations.(Conte)
(e)15:11 Both end results are completed at the same time: the vindication of the people of God and the punishment of their enemies.(Conte)