Lectures, Expository and Practical, on the Book of EstherT. & T. Clark, 1859 - 322 pages |
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... queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Artaxerxes . " In the East , at that time as now , there was kept up an entire separation between the two sexes in all the ordinary intercourse of life . This is ...
... queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Artaxerxes . " In the East , at that time as now , there was kept up an entire separation between the two sexes in all the ordinary intercourse of life . This is ...
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... queen before the king with the crown royal , to shew the people and the princes her beauty : for she was fair to look on . But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains : therefore was the king very ...
... queen before the king with the crown royal , to shew the people and the princes her beauty : for she was fair to look on . But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains : therefore was the king very ...
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... queen brought in to the ban- quet . " Now it is rather a singular circumstance , that some modern critics have objected to the genuineness of the book upon this single point , the argument being , that it could never have suggested ...
... queen brought in to the ban- quet . " Now it is rather a singular circumstance , that some modern critics have objected to the genuineness of the book upon this single point , the argument being , that it could never have suggested ...
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... queen for refusing to do what the madness of intemperance could only have made him think she should do . The lesson which these verses teach us , respects the extravagances and follies into which men may be betrayed by intemperance ...
... queen for refusing to do what the madness of intemperance could only have made him think she should do . The lesson which these verses teach us , respects the extravagances and follies into which men may be betrayed by intemperance ...
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... Queen Vashti here too clearly demonstrates . She fell a sacrifice to the intemperance of her lord . Whatever we may think of the overruling providence , which in this case brought good out of evil , we must acknowledge that Vashti was ...
... Queen Vashti here too clearly demonstrates . She fell a sacrifice to the intemperance of her lord . Whatever we may think of the overruling providence , which in this case brought good out of evil , we must acknowledge that Vashti was ...
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Page 78 - And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Page 116 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 55 - For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 280 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of 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.
Page 172 - Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Page 248 - ... for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's 25 damage.
Page 226 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Page 322 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 84 - Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Page 82 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.