7. ὠργίσθη. For a subject to scorn the summons to the royal feast implied disloyalty and rebellion.
τὰ στρατεύματα, ‘troops.’ Cp. Luk 23:11, where the word is used of Herod’s soldiers, σὺν τοῖς στρατεύμασιν αὐτοῦ, and Rev 9:16. The soldiers of Titus literally achieved the purposes of God.