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Title: Apocrypha, The
Book: Rest Of The Chapters Of The Book Of Esther, The
Author: Various
Date: 1611
Chapter 11
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who
said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought the epistle of
Phrurai here set forth, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the
son of Ptolemy, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.
^2 In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the first
day of the month Nisan, Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son of Semeias, the
son of Kiseus, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream; who was a Jew, and
dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court;
and he was of the captivity, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried
from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judaea; and this was his dream: Behold,
^3 noise and tumult, thunderings and earthquake, and uproar upon the earth:
and, behold, two great dragons came forth, both of them ready to fight, and
their cry was great. And at their cry all nations were ready to battle, that
they might fight against the righteous nation. And, lo, a day of darkness
and gloominess, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar upon the
earth. And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing ^1 the evils
that should befall them, and were ready to perish. Then they cried unto God,
and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, there came a great
river, even much water. The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were
exalted, and devoured the glorious. Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this
dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bare it in mind, and
until night by all means was desirous to know it.
[Footnote 2: The beginning of the first chapter after the Greek.]
[Footnote 3: Another reading is, a noise of a tumult.]
[Footnote 1: Gr. their own evils.]