Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 1:16
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Esther1:16
16 And Memucan answered before the king, and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king onely, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Who, though last named, spake first, either because the king first asked him; or because he was the chief of them all, either in Dignity, or in Reputation: or because it then was, as now it is in many places, the custom for the youngest Counsellors or Judges to deliver their opinion first.
By giving them an Example and Encouragement to contemn and disobey their Husbands. It is a crime of an high nature, and therefore deserves an exemplary punishment.
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