Abundance Account Advanced Boasted Captains Elevated Glories Glory Haman Heads Honored Honoured Instance Lifted Magnified Multitude Nobles Officials Princes Promoted Promotions Recounted Recounteth Riches Servants Sons Splendor Vast Wealth Wherein

5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had {f} promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

(f) Thus the wicked when they are promoted instead of acknowledging their charge and humbling themselves, wax ambitious, disdainful and cruel.

5:9-14 This account of Haman is a comment upon Pr 21:24. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. Haman, the higher he is lifted up, the more impatient he is of contempt, and the more enraged at it. The affront from Mordecai spoiled all. A slight affront, which a humble man would scarcely notice, will torment a proud man, even to madness, and will mar all his comforts. Those disposed to be uneasy, will never want something to be uneasy at. Such are proud men; though they have much to their mind, if they have not all to their mind, it is as nothing to them. Many call the proud happy, who display pomp and make a show; but this is a mistaken thought. Many poor cottagers feel far less uneasiness than the rich, with all their fancied advantages around them. The man who knows not Christ, is poor though he be rich, because he is utterly destitute of that which alone is true riches.

Abundance Account Advanced Boasted Captains Children Elevated Glory Great Haman Heads Honored Honoured Instance Lifted Magnified Multitude Nobles Officials Princes Promoted Recounted Recounteth Riches Servants Splendor Vast Ways Wealth Wherein

Abundance Account Advanced Boasted Captains Children Elevated Glory Great Haman Heads Honored Honoured Instance Lifted Magnified Multitude Nobles Officials Princes Promoted Recounted Recounteth Riches Servants Splendor Vast Ways Wealth Wherein


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