...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...