The Counter-Decree of Hope: When the Ring Changes Hands and Mourning Begins to Wear Joy - Analysis of Esther 8

Though the enemy has fallen, a new Decree of Hope is written to answer death with a letter of life carried on swift royal horses.

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Haman had fallen, but his words were still riding through the empire.The enemy was dead, but the decree of destruction remained alive.So Esther wept again, Mordecai received the ring,and they wrote a Decree of Hope to answer deathwith a letter of life carried on swift royal horses.

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