Wesley Corpus

Peace - With peace, friendship and kindness to his brethren, and truth, sincerity. Cry - For those great calamities which were decreed to all the Jews, and for the removing of which, not only Esther, and the Jews in Shushan, but all other Jews in all places, did doubtless fly to God by fasting, and strong cries. Either - Who had received authority from the king. The book - In the records which the Jews kept of their most memorable passages. Chapter X The greatness of Ahasuerus, and of Mordecai, ver. 1 - 3. Chronicles, &c. - These are lost long since, and buried in oblivion, while the sacred writings remain throughout the world. When the kingdoms of men, monarchs and their monarchies are destroyed, and their memorial is perished with them, the kingdom of God among men, and the records of that kingdom, shall remain as the days of heaven.