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This document about the feast of Purim, said to have been translated by Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, a native of Jerusalem, was first made public in the fourth year of king Ptolemy and queen Cleopatra, by Dosithaeus, who claimed to be a priest of true Levite descent, and his son, who was also called Ptolemy.✻ (Esther 11, 1)
Laid aside were those royal robes of hers, her array must tell only of grief and lament; dust and dung should be all her anointing now. Her body she tamed with fasting; only her torn locks hung where once she had loved to adorn her beauty. (Esther 14, 2)
Ever since they brought me here, comfort thy handmaid had none, Lord God of Abraham, save in thee! (Esther 14, 18)
Remember, said he, the days of thy humbler fortunes, and how it was my care nurtured thee. Now thou art matched against Aman, that is next to the king’s person; he pleads for our overthrow, and it is thine to plead for our preservation. (Esther 15, 2)
Ask aid of the Lord, and seek the king’s audience …. (Esther 15, 3)
When the third day came, she laid aside the garb of prayer,✻ and put on all her fine array, (Esther 15, 4)
queenly robes that dazzled the eye. One prayer she offered to the God who alone rules, alone can save; then bade two of her waiting-maids bear her company. (Esther 15, 5)
No sooner had he looked up, his fiery glance betraying his angry humour, than the queen swooned away; white went her cheeks, as she leaned her head, fainting, on the maid that stood by. (Esther 15, 10)
My lord, she said, the sight of thee overawed me, as if I had seen one of God’s angels; such reverence does thy majesty inspire. (Esther 15, 16)
He received from us nothing but friendly usage; we would have him called our father, we would have reverence paid to him as one that stood next to the king’s person. (Esther 16, 11)
Be there province or city that will not take its part in this observance, let it be laid waste with fire and sword; man nor beast shall tread its ways hereafter; to warn men what doom they suffer, that set edict of ours at defiance. (Esther 16, 24)
the Lord asked him, where he had been? Roaming about the earth, said he, to and fro about the earth. (Job 1, 7)
