Esther 8:15

Verse Esther 8:15. Blue and white] Probably stripe interchanged with stripe; or blue faced and bordered with white fur.

A great crown of gold] A large turban, ornamented with gold, jewels, c.

Fine linen and purple] See on Genesis 41:42. The בץ buts, here mentioned, is most probably the same with the byssus of the ancients supposed to be the beautiful tuft or beard, growing out of the side of the pinna longa, a very large species of muscle, found on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, of which there are a pair of gloves in the British Museum. This byssus I have described elsewhere.

Shushan - was glad.] Haman was too proud to be popular; few lamented his fall.