As “the book” elsewhere in Esther always means a particular book—“the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia” ([Reference Esther 2…

In the book. — It is doubtful what “the book” here means. The Vulgate interprets it as the Book of Esther itself,…

And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim ,
&c.] As a festival to be observed by the Jews in future …

The observance of the Jewish feasts is a public declaration of the truth of the Old Testament Scriptures. And as the Old Testament Scriptures are t…