Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed—letters that were written for the destruction of the Jews who are in your kingdom.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. 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 shewed a greater regard for the king’s pleasure.—I beseech. Hebrew “let it be written, to reverse the device of Aman, the son,” and so forth Bible.—When the edict was not sealed by the nobles, it might be altered; (Calmet. 1:19) 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.