But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Ver. 5. Not on the feast day, lest, &c.] But God would have it on that feast day, and no other, Acts 4:27. And here these wicked ones fulfil the divine decree: but no thanks to them: more than to Haman for Mordecai's advancement, whereunto Haman held the stirrup only. Divinum consilium dum devitatur impletur, saith a Father.