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<div2 id="Ez.i" n="i" next="Ez.ii" prev="Ez" progress="89.21%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Ez.i-p0.1">Ezra</h2>
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<pb id="Ez.i-Page_1028" n="1028"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Ez.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Ez.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Ez.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Ez.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Ez.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF</h5>
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<h2 id="Ez.i-p1.4">E Z R A.</h2>
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<hr style="width:75pt"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Ez.i-p2">The Jewish church puts on quite another
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face in this book from what it had appeared with; its state much
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better, and more pleasant, than it was of late in Babylon, and yet
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far inferior to what it had been formerly. The dry bones here live
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again, but <i>in the form of a servant;</i> the yoke of their
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captivity is taken off, but the marks of it in their galled necks
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remain. Kings we hear no more of; <i>the crown has fallen from
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their heads.</i> Prophets they are blessed with, to direct them in
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their re-establishment, but, after a while, prophecy ceases among
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them, till the great prophet appears, and his fore-runner. The
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history of this book is the accomplishment of Jeremiah's prophecy
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concerning the return of the Jews out of Babylon at the end of
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seventy years, and a type of the accomplishment of the prophecies
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of the Apocalypse concerning the deliverance of the gospel church
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out of the New-Testament Babylon. Ezra preserved the records of
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that great revolution and transmitted them to the church in this
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book. His name signifies a helper; and so he was to that people. A
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particular account concerning him we shall meet with, <scripRef id="Ez.i-p2.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.7.1-Ezra.7.28" parsed="|Ezra|7|1|7|28" passage="Ezr 7:1-28"><i>ch.</i> vii.</scripRef>, where he himself
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enters upon the stage of action. The book gives us an account, I.
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Of the Jews' return out of their captivity, <scripRef id="Ez.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.1.1-Ezra.2.70" parsed="|Ezra|1|1|2|70" passage="Ezr 1:1-2:70"><i>ch.</i> i., ii.</scripRef> II. Of the building of
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the temple, the opposition it met with, and yet the perfecting of
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it at last, <scripRef id="Ez.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.3.1-Ezra.6.22" parsed="|Ezra|3|1|6|22" passage="Ezr 3:1-6:22"><i>ch.</i>
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iii.-vi.</scripRef> III. Of Ezra's coming to Jerusalem, <scripRef id="Ez.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.7.1-Ezra.8.36" parsed="|Ezra|7|1|8|36" passage="Ezr 7:1-8:36"><i>ch.</i> vii., viii.</scripRef> IV. Of the
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good service he did there, in obliging those that had married
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strange wives to put them away, <scripRef id="Ez.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.9.1-Ezra.10.44" parsed="|Ezra|9|1|10|44" passage="Ezr 9:1-10:44"><i>ch.</i> ix., x.</scripRef> This beginning again
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of the Jewish nation was small, yet its latter end greatly
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increased.</p>
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</div2>
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