truth about any such comparisons, we ought rather to praise God for the privilege of living today, and determine to fulfil the good works for which we have been ‘twice born’.32 Her reply to Mordecai’s instructions was: ‘Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king,
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