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| [1]And the king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea. |
[1]Rex vero Assuerus omnem terram, et cunctas maris insulas fecit tributarias: |
| [2]And as for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial. |
[2]cujus fortitudo et imperium, et dignitas atque sublimitas, qua exaltavit Mardochæum, scripta sunt in libris Medorum, atque Persarum: |
| [3]And Mardochaeus was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honoured by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation.\n\nAnd Mardocheus said, These things have been done of God. For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them has failed. There was the little fountain which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen. And the two serpents are I and Aman. And the nations are those nations that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. But as for my nation, this is Israel, even they that cried to God and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people. And the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations. Therefore did he ordain two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations. And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations. And God remembered his people, and vindicated his inheritance. And they shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel.\n\nIn the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it. |
[3]et quomodo Mardochæus judaici generis secundus a rege Assuero fuerit: et magnus apud Judæos, et acceptabilis plebi fratrum suorum, quærens bona populo suo, et loquens ea, quæ ad pacem seminis sui pertinerent. |
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[4]Dixitque Mardochæus: A Deo facta sunt ista. |
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[5]Recordatus sum somnii, quod videram, hæc eadem significantis: nec eorum quidquam irritum fuit. |
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[6]Parvus fons, qui crevit in fluvium, et in lucem, solemque conversus est, et in aquas plurimas redundavit: Esther est quam rex accepit uxorem, et voluit esse reginam. |
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[7]Duo autem dracones: ego sum, et Aman. |
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[8]Gentes, quæ convenerant: hi sunt, qui conati sunt delere nomen Judæorum. |
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[9]Gens autem mea Israël est, quæ clamavit ad Dominum, et salvum fecit Dominus populum suum: liberavitque nos ab omnibus malis, et fecit signa magna atque portenta inter gentes: |
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[10]et duas sortes esse præcepit, unam populi Dei, et alteram cunctarum gentium. |
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[11]Venitque utraque sors in statutum ex illo jam tempore diem coram Deo universis gentibus: |
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[12]et recordatus est Dominus populi sui, ac misertus est hæreditatis suæ. |
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[13]Et observabuntur dies isti in mense Adar quartadecima, et quintadecima die ejusdem mensis, cum omni studio et gaudio in unum cœtum populi congregati, in cunctas deinceps generationes populi Israël. |