John Trapp on Esther 2:19

Ver. 19. And when the Virgins were gathered together, &c.] For a new ſupply of the Kings inſatiable luſt, ſay ſome, this affection ſoon growing cold to Eſther. So unreaſonable is luſt, ſo inconſtant carnal affection, ſo lawleſſe are the wicked, ſo ſhort is any happineſſe of perfection in this life. The Septuagint leave out this word [the ſecond time] but the Hebrew verity hath it. Others ſay, the ſecond time, ſignifieth into the ſecond houſe of the women. For they went not each to their own homes, becauſe the King was now fully ſatisfied in his choice, as Tremellius and Junius conceive, but they remained in the cuſtody of Shaazgar Keeper of the Kings Concubines, not ſuffered to converſe with any man ever after, as Aben-Ezra obſerveth. Therefore they were twice gathered together. Once, when they were brought to Hegai the Eunuch, and again, when from the Kings houſe, they met all together in the ſecond houſe of the women, under the Government of Shaazgar.

Then Morde[illegible: 1 letter]ai ſate in the Kings gate.] As Porter or other Officer, ſaith Severus: and he attended ſtill upon his office, not fawning on Eſther, nor prolling for preferment. His ambition was to be quiet and to do his own buſineſſe, intra pelliculam ſuam ſe continere: high feates he knew were never but uneaſie, and long robes cannot but contract much ſoile.Negotiorum familiarium curator. 1 Theſ. 4.11. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. In the place he now holdeth, he can heare how it goeth with his Eſther, and do the King good ſervice, as verſe 21.