The silver is given to you - Some understand this to mean that Xerxes refused the silver which Haman had offered to him; but the pa…

And the king said ... — With indifference which seems incredible, but which is quite in accordance with what we otherwise…

And the king said to Haman, the silver is given to you ,
&c.] The 10,000 talents of silver Haman proposed to pay int…

Without some acquaintance with the human heart and the history of mankind, we would not think that any prince could consent to a dreadful proposal,…