Rabanus Maurus

Now, what can "prepare a greatly magnificent feast for all his officials and slaves in honor of his marriage with Esther" mean, if not that everyone throughout the world, from the greatest to the least, celebrates with the greatest joy the spiritual union of Christ and the Church? After all, at this feast it is not meals of the flesh that the celebrants have the honor to consume, but the spiritual dishes of wisdom and virtue. …

Commentary on Esther ↗