Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XV.
Mardocheus causeth Esther to goe to the king and intreate for the people. 10.
She is terrified by this countenance, but God turneth his hart, and he calleth
her curteously to him.
This also I found added in the common edition.
1 noteAnd he commanded her (no doubt but Mardocheus commanded
Esther) that she should goe vnto the king, and make
petition for her people and for her countrie.
2 Remember
(quoth he) the daies of thy humilitie, how thou wast brought
vp in my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath
spoken against vs vnto death:
3 and doe thou inuocate our
Lord, and speake to the king for vs, & deliuer vs from death. note
Moreouer this also which foloweth I found in the common Greke.
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4 noteAnd in the third day she layd away note the garmentes which
she ware, & was clothed in her glorie.
5 And when she glistered
in royal apparel, and had inuocated God the ruler and sauiour
of al, she tooke two wayting maydes,
6 and vpon the
one in deede she leaned, as it were for dilicatnes and verie
much tendernes not able to beare vp her bodie:
9 but the
other of the maydes folowed her ladie, bearing vp her garmentes
trayling on the ground.
8 But her selfin al her countenance
of colour like the rose, also with gratious and shining
eies note hid her mind ful of sorow, and exceding feare.
9 She
therfore entring through al the doores in order, stood before
the king, where he sate vpon the throne of his kingdom,
clothed with royal garmentes, and glittering in gold, and
pretious stones, and he was terrible to behold.
10 And when
he had lifted vp his face, and with burning eies had shewed
the furie of his breast, the Queene fel downe, and her colour
being changed into palenes, she rested her wearie head vpon
her handmayde.
11 And God turned the kings spirit in to mildnes,
and in hast and fearing he lept out of the throne, and
holding her vp in his armes, til she came to her self, spake her
fayre with these wordes:
12 What ayleth thee Esther? I am thy
brother, feare not.
13 Thou shalt not die: for this law is not
made for thee, but for the common sorte.
14 Come neere therfore,
and touch the scepter.
15 And when she held her peace,
he tooke the golden rod, & put it vpon her necke, and kissed
her, and sayd: Why speakest thou not to me?
16 Who answered:
I saw thee, my Lord, note as an angel of God, and my hart was
trubled for the feare of thy glorie.
17 For thou, my lord, art
exceding maruelous, and thy face is ful of graces
18 And
when she spake, she fel downe agayne, and was almost in a
sowne.
19 But the king was trubled, and al his seruantes did
comfort her. note
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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