John Trapp on Esther 3:14

Verſe 14. The copy of the writing — was publiſhed] Phathſegin, a Syriack word, ſaith R. David, and not found, but in the books about the captivity. The vulgar rendreth it Summa, R. Nathan [non-Latin text not transcribed], to the ſame ſenſe. Tranſcripts of the Original were ſent to all places, that none might be ignorant or negligent in doing execution: But why did not the Jewes upon ſuch notice ſave themſelves by flight, may ſome ſay? Alas, whither ſhould the poor ſoules flie with their families? being compaſſed about with ſo many deadly enemies, and having none that durſt own them in that diſtreſſe? It was a juſt wonder, and a ſpecial work of God, that their enemies forbear to fall upon them before the black-day came, if but for the ſpoile-ſake. We reade chap. 9. that notwithſtanding the known favour of the King, the patronage of Mordecai, and the hanging up of Haman, &c. the thirteenth of Adar is ſtill meant to be a bloody day. Hamans Abettours joyne together to performe that ſentence, whereof the Authour repented, &c. But God was ſeen in the Mount: he loveth to help thoſe that are forſaken of their hopes, as he did theſe poor Priſoners then, when it might ſeem that there was neither left unto them hope of better, or place of worſe Who would not therefore truſt in God? Deo confiſi nunquam confuſi? Truſt in God will ſurely triumph.

That they ſhould be ready againſt that day] That long-look't-for day by Haman and his Party, wherein they meant to roll themſelves, and wallow in the blood of thoſe Jewes, and to ſay as Hannibal did, when he ſaw a ditch filled with mans blood, O jucundum ſpectaculum! O pleaſant ſight! Or as Valeſus, when he had ſlain three hundred, O rem regiam! O Kingly act! Or as that Queen, who when ſhe ſaw ſome of her Proteſtant ſubjects lying dead and ſtripped upon the earth, cried out, the goodlieſt tapeſtry that ever ſhe beheld! Are not ſuch blood-ſuckers of the vulturine kinde, ſpoken of in Job, whoſe young ones glut-glut blood, (the Original word ſeemeth made from the ſound) and where the ſlain are, there is ſhe? Job 39.30.