Esther 6:1 (WEB)
The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“One more proof only I will adduce, that I may not weary you and my hearers.Sleep was removed from the eyes of Ahasuerus, whom the Seventy call Artaxerxes, that he might turn over the memoirs of his faithful ministers and come upon…” — editor's note: Esther vi. 1.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.19Conference I
“…good deeds of Mordecai, and promoted him to a position of the highest honour and at once recalled his most cruel sentence concerning the slaughter of the Jews.” — editor's note: Cf. Esth. vi. 1 sq.
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