The multitude of his children - Herodotus tells us that, next to prowess in arms, it was regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence …

Told them ... — As all this was necessarily sufficiently well known to his hearers, this was simply a piece of va…

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches
Of the multitude of them; which he did partly in a way of ostentation…

This account of Haman is a comment upon Proverbs 21:24. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers.

Haman, the higher he is…