What is the context?
Mordecai returns to the gate, while Haman goes home grieving with his head covered. The public honor changes their immediate circumstances, but the decree against the Jews still exists.
Haman recounts what happened, and his advisers and wife now warn that he will fall before Mordecai. Those who urged the execution have begun to recognize the reversal.
Before the discussion can continue, the king’s eunuchs hurry Haman to Esther’s banquet. The story moves from his humiliation toward the disclosure he does not yet anticipate.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley sees Mordecai’s return to his former place as a sign that the honor has not made him proud. The advisers’ warning belongs to this developing crisis. It is not a rule that every person of Jewish ancestry must always defeat every opponent, or that the rescue is complete before Esther speaks.
What is our position?
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