Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Esther 2:11

Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Esther 2:11 - 2:11

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Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Esther 2:11 - 2:11

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to know. This was Mordecai's solicitude. All this proves that these events must have taken place before the emancipation made by Cyras (the son of this Astyages, App-57), recorded in Ezr . No such secrecy would have been necessary, and no thought of allowing the People, whom he had just emancipated, to be exterminated, as is described in the book of Esther: But Cyrus, being her son, would be carefully prepared by her and Mordecai to begin his reign by such emancipation from Babylon (note, not from Shushan: compare Est_1:1 with Jer_25:11, Jer_25:12), thus fulfilling Isa_44:28 with Isa_45:1-4.