John Trapp on Esther 6:14

Verſe 14. And while they were yet talking with him] But could not yield him one word of comfort. He hoped haply that they would have found out for him ſome good occaſion, ſome mean of ſupplanting Mordecai, now his Corival and Counter-factioniſt, and of incenſing the King againſt him, that he might build upon his ruines. But the hope of unjuſt men ſhall periſh, Prov. 11.7. (Etiam ſpes valentiſſimo perit, ſo ſome render it,) and themſelves with it. As Haman had not one to ſpeak for him, when the King frowned upon him: ſo here he hath not one to ſpeak to his heart, or to ſhoare him up, now that he is upon the fall. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. 1 Cor. 3.19. Thoſe that before took crafty counſel againſt Gods people, and conſulted againſt his hidden ones, Pſal. 83.3. are now at their wits end, as ſeeing themſelves taken (as wilde beaſts in a ſnare,) in their own craftineſſe, yea, they are mad for the ſight of their eyes, which that day they ſhould ſee, Deut. 28.34.

Came the Kings Chamberlaines, and haſted to bring Haman Heb. and hurried and headlonged in a turbulent manner: for it may be the King and Queen tarried for him. Could he have been any way excuſed, he had no ſuch minde to have gone. For his ſtomack was full, and what if he ſhould meet Mordecai the new Favourite there, and ſee him ſet above him? But now it is no time to conſult further with friends, or caſt perils by himſelf.Lib. 1 l. c. 6. Harbonah haſteneth him, having firſt taken notice of the lofty Gallowes, and (as Joſephus ſaith) asked of one of the ſervants of the houſe what it meant, and for whom it was prepared? See chap. 7.9.

Ʋnto the banquet that Eſther had prepared] That fatal feaſt, Ʋbi manducaret quod apud inferos digereret, Au[illegible: 1 letter]guſt. where his meat in his bowels was turned, it became the gall of aſpes within him, Job 20.14. why then ſhould any Saint envy the wicked man his fed bits, his murthering morſels? is not his meat ſawced, his drink ſpiced with the bitter wrath of God? Adoniah's feaſt ended in horrour: the eares of his gueſts were filled, (becauſe their bellies had prepared deceit, Job 15.35.) with the ſound of thoſe trumpets, which at once proclaim Solomons triumph, and their confuſion. Ever after the meale is ended, comes the reckoning; but at this banquet of Eſther it came before, chap. 7.2. And Haman ſped not ſo well as Caeſar Borgia's Nobles, whom he invited to a feaſt, and after they had well d[illegible: 1 letter]ned, he cut off their heads.