Esther - 4:2 Meaning
“And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:1-4 Mordecai avowed his relation to the Jews. Public calamities, that oppress the church of God, should affect our hearts more than any private affliction, and it is peculiarly distressing to occasion sufferings to others. God will keep those that are exposed to evil by the tenderness of their consciences.
“Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;”
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