to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations, for she was beautiful.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Head. But without any other covering. Chal. Sulpitius entertained perhaps the same idea. Stulto rege consultior, pudens, virorum oculis spectaculum corporis præbere jussa, abnuit. Bible.—Some Greek copies assert, very improbably, ( Calmet.) that she was sent for “to be crowned queen.”—Beautiful. “The Persian ladies were noted for beauty,” (Ammian) insomuch that Alexander called them eye-sores, oculorum dolores. Curt.—Only prostitutes appeared publicly at feasts. Macrob. vii. 1. Saint Ambrose de Elia. i. 15.—In effect, Vasthi’s refusal conformable to the laws of the country. Josephus. Plut. in Themist.—Her offence consisted, therefore, rather in her haughty carriage or words. Bible.—For the proposal was neither decent nor safe for the king, (Grot.) as the history of Candaules shews. Herod. i. Not. Var. in Sulp.
Greek to make her queen.