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rats , "a runner" (Esther 3:13; Esther 3:15; Esther 8:14). Couriers from the earliest times (Job 9:25) carried messages, especially royal despatches. "My days are (not as the slow caravan, but) swifter than a post." (2 Chronicles 30:6; 2 Chronicles 30:10; Jeremiah 51:31.) Relays of messengers were kept regularly organized for the service ("post" is from positus , "placed at fixed intervals"). The Persians and Romans impressed men and horses for the service of government despatches; letters of private persons were conveyed by private hands. Louis XI of France first (A.D. 1464) established an approximation to our modern post.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Post'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/post.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Post'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/post.html. 1949.
