Esther 3:9

Verse 9. Talents. Hebrew and so forth add, “of silver.” Menochius.—If the Hebrew talent be meant, this sum would be immense for an individual; ( Calmet.) though Aman might expect to raise it by the confiscation of the Jews’ effects, verse 13. Some think he speaks of the Babylonian talent, on which supposition the sum would amount to twenty-one millions of French livres, (Bude. Calmet.) or of the Attic one, which is worth half the Hebrew talent. The king might thus be prevented from thinking that the tributes would be lessened. Tirinus.