None might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth - This law is not elsewhere mentioned; but its principle—that nothing of evil o…

None might enter ... —That nothing sad or ill-omened might meet the monarch’s gaze, as though by shutting his eyes, as it were, to…

And came even before the king's gate
Or court, that Esther might if po ible be made acquainted with this dreadful ca…

Mordecai avowed his relation to the Jews. Public calamities, which oppress the church of God, should affect our hearts more than any private afflic…