The honors here proposed by Haman were such as Persian monarchs rarely allowed to subjects. Each act would have been a capital offence if done with…

Let the royal apparel be brought ... — Haman suggests these exceedingly great distinctions, thinking with unaccountable vanity (for nothin…

Let the royal apparel be brought which the king used to wear ,
&c.] Not a whole suit of clothes, but a single garmen…

See how people's pride deceives them. The deceitfulness of our own hearts appears in nothing more than in the conceit we have of ourselves and our …