Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 1:22

22 For he sent letters into all the kings provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people .

That all sorts of persons, not Men only (who by study or travel many times understand divers Languages) but the Women also might understand it, and therefore be inexcusable if they did not comply with it; for which end it was not only written in each language, for that writing might come but to few hands, but moreover it was published in the several Cities and Towns by such persons as used to publish the Kings Edicts. Others, That he should speak in the language of his own People; i. e. that Men should not in compliance with their Wives, who were oft of other Nations and Languages, inure themselves to it, and bring their Wives Language into the Family; but that men should use their own proper Language, and cause their Wives and Children to use it; this being one sign of Dominion, and therefore frequent after this time among the Greeks and Romans, who, together with their victorious Arms, brought in their Language into other Countries, and in a great measure imposed it upon them.

Marginal references: Heb. that one [illegible: 1 word] publish [illegible: 1+ letters] according to [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]guage of [illegible: 1+ letters] people.