John Trapp on Esther 7:1

CHAP. VII. Verſe 1. So the King and Haman came to the banquet.]

HEb. to drink, for multorum vivere eſt bibere: and profane perſons have a Proverb, Bibere & ſudare eſt vita Cardiaci: Such are your chamber-Champions: whoſe teeth in a temperate aire, do beat in their heads at a cup of cold ſack and ſugar.Gr[illegible: 1 letter]g. Poſthu[illegible: 1 letter] Belſhazzars feaſt-dayes were called [non-Latin text not transcribed]: becauſe he was quaffing in the bowles of the Sanctuary, to the honour of Shac or Bacchus. Little did either he or Haman think, that in the fulneſſe of their ſufficiency, they ſhould be in ſuch ſtraits, and that every hand of the troubleſome ſhould come upon him: that when they were about to fill their bellies, God ſhould caſt the fury of his wrath upon them, and raine it upon them whiles they were drinking, Job 20.22, 23. But, this is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God, verſe 29. Why then ſhould any Saint be ſick of the fret, at the proſperity of the ungodly? ſurely, as fiſhes are taken in an evil net, and as birds are caught in a ſnare, ſo are ſuch ſnared in an evil time, when it falleth ſuddenly upon them; Eccleſ. 9.12. Of Eſthers invitation Haman might have ſaid, as he did of the gifts one ſent him, Munera magna quidem mittit, ſed mittit in hamo.Martial. But he knew not yet what evil was toward him; though I doubt not but his conſcience, (if not altogether dead and dedolent) began by this time to ſtare him in the face; his friends having already read his deſtiny.