Ezra 10

Ezra 10:2

THere is hope] if wee can repent, and amend our selves: and therefore moderate thine affliction; and seek for to amend this busidese.

Ezra 10:3

VVith our God] whom thou dost represent in this action: [to put away] for these marriages with idolatrous and pagan women, were of no force by Law, seeing God had forbidden them: [and such as are] the Italian, the children, as bastards, borne in unlawfull copulation; and therefore could not be incorporated amongst Gods people; though it is likely that the parents did provide them food and other necessaries when they sent them away: [and of those] namely who had abstined from any such mixture, Ezra 9:4.

Ezra 10:4

Belongeth unto thee] because thou art a Priest, and hast a speciall command from the King to see that Gods Law be observed, Ezekiel 7:26.

Ezra 10:8

Seporated] hee should bee excommunicated out of the Church, and forbidden the use of all holy things, and held as a heathen and prophane man.

Ezra 10:9

The ninth] which was the month of May, counting. September for the first, after the manner of the Persians, Esther 2:16. [in the street] in the court of the people, or in the Gentiles court: [great raine] which being out of the accustomed season, was somewhat prdigious, and seemed to portend Gods wrath, as 1 Samuel 12:17.

Ezra 10:12

So must w] or it is good to doe according to thy word; and wee take upon us to doe it.

Ezra 10:14

Stand] to frame a supreame counsell or consistorie: [the elders] who after they had made an enquiry in each city, were to make their relation. As for example whether the woman were a Proselite before shee was married, whither at the time of her marriage shee had made such abiurations, and protestations as were requisite; whither shee had not after defiled her selfe by ido latrie: if she gave any proofe of true piety: that according to these informations it might be judged whether the marriage were to be confirmed as sanctified by her profession: [be turned] by annihilating what hath been done amisse, and providing that hereafter no such thing may be done.

Ezra 10:15

Helped them] as adsessors, commissaries, or relators.

Ezra 10:16

Sate down] begun to sit about these judiciall acts: [the tenth] which was in the moon of Iuno, counting the moneths from September.

Ezra 10:44

And some of them had wives by whom they had children] the Italian hath it,and there were some of them who exposed their children, that is to say, some of them forsook their children, leaving them in the streets, or in the high-wayes. Others translate it, and there were some amongst them, that had women, by whom they had children.