This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...III, p. 72, Targum Shent (and extract). 8 The offer was made by Pyth1us of Celaenae (see note on i. 4) to Xerxes when visiting that town in connexion with his exped1tion against Greece. Rawlinson (Herod, vol. iv. 30) calculates the amount to have been "little short of five millions of our money (4,827,144)." Grote, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...III, p. 72, Targum Shent (and extract). 8 The offer was made by Pyth1us of Celaenae (see note on i. 4) to Xerxes when visiting that town in connexion with his exped1tion against Greece. Rawlinson (Herod, vol. iv. 30) calculates the amount to have been "little short of five millions of our money (4,827,144)." Grote, however (Hist, of Greece, v. 36 note), considers the sum an 1ncredible one. Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' 11 enemy. And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good 12 to thee. Then were the king's a scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, 1 Or, secretaries. holder full power to issue edicts in his name, since the sealing of them with his signet gave them validity. Alexander the Great is said to have intimated in this way that he desired his general Perdiccas to succeed him. Cp. for the use of a signet ring in this connexion viii. i; Gen. xli. 42; 1 Mace. vi. 15; see also Josephus, Ant. xx. 2. 2. Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy This full description lays stress upon the terrible plight in which the Jews were placed by the delegation of unlimited powers for their destruction into the hands of their hereditary foe. 11. In the East, confiscation of goods is the invariable accompaniment of capital punishment, and they are forfeited to the crown. At first sight the words seem to mean that the king declines Haman's offer, and gives him free leave to massacre the Jews, and plunder them for his own benefit. But probably it is implied that the promised payment to the king was to ...
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