To: Running On Empty; Uncle Chip; Grudgebringer; ears_to_hear
Perhaps I can come back for a few minutes later this morning to offer some significant quotes from that Book of Esther. The most significant quote from the Book of Esther is:
Est 4:13-14 And Mordecai commanded them to answer Esther, Do not think within yourself that you shall escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?
I wouldn't try to get too much of an allegory from Esther in comparison to Mary. Esther faithful was at the prodding of the godly Mordecai and how she solved the problems were because of Modecai's steering.
Behind every great woman there is a great man.
821 posted on
10/28/2007 11:12:13 AM PDT by
HarleyD
(Ezr 3:13 the people could not distinguish the sound of joy from the sound of weeping)
To: HarleyD
Behind every great woman there is a great man.My wife read that and said
Yeah. WAY behind!
Then she gave me permission to spend more time on Fr.
824 posted on
10/28/2007 11:25:37 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: HarleyD
I’m not at all troubled over being able to explain my post about Esther. I wish I could do it justice but at this moment, I have just run out of time. I have a 24/7 job here at home.
As for a great man being behind every great woman——perhaps my take is basically the same as yours but phrased in reverse—in front of every great woman is a great man. I consider men to be the appointed spiritual leaders. Women have their very own important and irreplacable position in the forming of the Kingdom.
To: HarleyD
846 posted on
10/28/2007 1:01:24 PM PDT by
ears_to_hear
(1Cr 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:......)
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