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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Vashti's crown - I only read that it was simply a crown, but read nothing about a veil. Adam Clark says that the Targum/Aramaic translation adds that she was naked.
Adam Clark commentary on purification:
Let their things for purification be given them - תמרקיהן tamrukeyhen, their cosmetics. What these were we are told in Est_2:12; oil of myrrh, and sweet odours. The myrrh was employed for six months, and the odours for six months more, after which the person was brought to the king. This space was sufficient to show whether the young woman had been chaste; whether she were with child or not, that the king might not be imposed on, and be obliged to father a spurious offspring, which might have been the case had not this precaution been used.
Instead of the oil or myrrh, the Targum says it was the oil of unripe olives which caused the hair to fall off, and rendered the skin delicate. |
Yes I saw that same information.
I also read somewhere, can't remember off the top of my head, where the oil, and I think it was the maybe the olive oil would remove all hair. And the oil of myrrh and frankincense would remove body odors from foods that some of the "poorer" girls may have consummed.
It was either Matthew Henry or Adams can't remember which that stated she was asked to appear without her veil. Now times where different then than now but I can't see where that would have been enough of an issue to keep her from coming before the King, knowing that disobeying a king could mean death.
I am leaning toward she was requested to be naked.
What do you think?