 | Michael Wheeler - History - 2006 - 47 pages
...recollect it; nor did our rejoicing cease, but was renewed every autumn, as the day came round. It has been a 'day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another [Esther ix.19] '. We have kept the feast heretofore with merry hearts; we have... | |
 | S. Lynn G - Religion - 2008 - 242 pages
...the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. 9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Religion - 2008 - 532 pages
...Chron. xxix. 15. n. Eccles. i. 3-15. 11. Eccles. iii. 1-6. autumn, as the day came round. It has been "a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another."14 We have kept the feast heretofore with merry hearts; we have kept it seven... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1841 - 768 pages
...arrangement of topics J':om an equally appropriate text, taken from the Book of Esther, ii. 19, 22, " A day of gladness, and feasting, and a good day ; and of sending portions to one another, and gifts to the poor." It is written with much beauty of expression, and... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821 - 362 pages
...the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that... | |
 | 1875 - 846 pages
...Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar the day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.' The thirteenth day is called 'the Fast of Esther,' from which, it is supposed,... | |
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Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. 
