Esther 2

Grace and glory are inter se connexae, linked and chained together; grace precedes glory, as the morning star ushers in the sun. God will have us qualified and fitted for a state of blessedness: drunkards and swearers are not fit to enjoy God in glory, the Lord will not lay such…

Answer. Adoption is the taking a stranger into the relation of a son and heir: So Moses was the adopted son of King Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:10). And Esther was the adopted child of her cousin Mordecai (Esther 2:7). Thus God adopts us into the family of heaven; and God in ad…

This does disponere ad Coelum, it prepares for happiness, as the seed prepares for harvest. When the virgins had been anointed and perfumed, then they were to stand before the king (Esther 2:12). So when we have had the anointing of God, then we shall stand before the King of He…

The Scriptures speak of the woman's gaining upon the husband (1 Peter 3:1), seasoning the children (Proverbs 31:1; 2 Timothy 1:5), encouraging the servants in a way of godliness, especially of their own sex. 'Tis said (Esther 4:16), I also and my maidens will fast likewise: thes…

'Tis an invitation, to press us to come to Christ, and by Christ to God: the great work of the ministers is like that of Eliezer, Abraham's servant, to seek a match for our Master's son; our way to win you, is to tell you what he is, he is God-man in one person, he is man that y…

Here may some ask this question: Whether these sayings of Saint Peter, concerning women's apparel, be strictly commanded or no? We read of Queen Esther, how that she wore a crown of gold on her head, and put on her royal apparel that was very rich, precious, and fitting for a qu…

And he gives another instance to the same purpose, in the word [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], Judges 10:4, Jair the Gileadite had thirty sons, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], where the word [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] signifies in the first place colts of asses, and in the latter, ci…

So that as its rise, its constant use also will admit of no other signification, but only that of an unspotted Virgin. Besides, the LXX. render it in this place [in non-Latin alphabet] a Virgin, and the Targum [in non-Latin alphabet] which the other Targums express a Virgin by (…

It is true (though not so readily apprehended) that the sullenness, and murmuring, and silent frets of children and servants is as great a transgression of the law of meekness, as the more open, noisy and avowed passions of their parents and masters. We find the king's chamberla…

Herein differs Christ's love from the love of all men towards their spouses: for they must see something in them, to move them to love. When Ahasuerus was to choose a wife, the maidens out of whom he was to take one, were first purified, and then he took her in whom he most deli…

This disposes the soul toward heaven; it turns iron into gold; it makes the heart, which was Satan's portrait, into Christ's letter. The virgins of the court (Esther 2:12) had their days of purification; they were first to be perfumed and anointed, and then they were to stand be…

Verse 30: Hoshea smote him, and reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet]. So also (Esther 2:4), (Ecclesiastes 4:15), (2 Samuel 17:25), (Genesis 30:2), (1 Kings 16:10): Zimri reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet] (Ezekiel 16:32). Joseph heard that Archelaus did reign in the room of Herod his…

For the grace of God that brings salvation does no sooner appear to any man, but it teaches to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11-12). Just as before, Ahasuerus had the virgins purified that were to a…

Romans 15:11. Esther 2:15, 17. Chapter 5:2.