"So it will be by the earnest prayer of the Church that God's people will be delivered from Antichrist and God will extend the golden sceptre of His grace as the king to Esther (5:2)". Jonathan Edwards - "Notes on Scripture" - Yale University Press, New Haven (1998) - (p62).
"It appears to me very probable that this book of Esther is a history that is a shadow of gospel things and times ... the great feast that Ahasureus made is the gospel feast. Vashti is sent for to this feast to appear before the king (1:11) ... Vashti though she was the king's own wife refused to come for she had a feast of her own. So the Jews though God's perculiar people refused to come to the glorious feast he made through their pride and vanity". Jonathan Edwards - "Notes on Scripture" - Yale University Press, New Haven (1998) - (p60).
