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Esther 7:8

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Rabanus Maurus

That is, Haman's attempt to beseech Queen Esther was regarded by King Ahasuerus as a ruse, because when the day of judgment arrives the petitions of the wicked are seen not as prayer but as provocation. Hence it is written in the Psalm: "When he is judged let him leave condemned, and let his prayer become sin" (Psalms 109). …

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