Mistress and Maid
G. Lawson. Esther 4:15-17 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,… Some, it is probable, of Esther's maids were heathens when they came into her service. Yet we find her promising that they would fast. She can answer for them, as Joshua for his household, that they would serve the Lord. If mistresses were as zealous as Queen Esther for the honour of God and the conversion of sinners, they would bestow pains upon the instruction and religious improvement of their female servants. If women may gain to Christ their own husbands by their good conversation, may they not also gain the souls of their servants? and if they are gained to Christ, they are gained to themselves also. (G. Lawson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, WEB: Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,