Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend to her, and gave him a command concerning Mordecai, to learn what it was, and why it was.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
To him. Hebrew adds, "and I be pleasing in his eyes "which had been expressed just before. Yet she might insist on this point, as it showed a greater regard for the king's pleasure.
I beseech. Hebrew, "let it be written, to reverse the device of Aman, the son "(Haydock)
When the edict was not sealed by the nobles, it might be altered; (chap. i. 19.) and at any rate, when the king had been to visibly imposed upon, in an affair of such consequence, justice dictated that it should not be enforced. (Calmet)
