<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name" target="_blank">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I assume that Mordechai<br>
and Esther put at least some effort into lobbying Achashverosh to change the<br>
law and rescind Haman's letters; he was an absolute monarch, after all, so<br>
if he decided to do so who could prevent him? When he said "ein lehashiv" he<br>
didn't mean "I don't have the power to do this, it would be unconstitutional".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems clear from Daniel 6:15-16 that the king did _not_ have the power to rescind his own laws, strange and even comical as this seems. <br>
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