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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Ezra</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>E Z R A.</B></FONT>
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The Jewish church puts on quite another face in this book from what it
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had appeared with; its state much better, and more pleasant, than it
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was of late in Babylon, and yet far inferior to what it had been
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formerly. The dry bones here live again, but <I>in the form of a
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servant;</I> the yoke of their captivity is taken off, but the marks of
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it in their galled necks remain. Kings we hear no more of; <I>the crown
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has fallen from their heads.</I> Prophets they are blessed with, to
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direct them in their re-establishment, but, after a while, prophecy
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ceases among them, till the great prophet appears, and his fore-runner.
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The 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 seventy
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years, and a type of the accomplishment of the prophecies of the
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Apocalypse concerning the deliverance of the gospel church out of the
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New-Testament Babylon. Ezra preserved the records of that great
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revolution and transmitted them to the church in this book. His name
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signifies a helper; and so he was to that people. A particular account
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concerning him we shall meet with,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+7:1-28"><I>ch.</I> vii.</A>,
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where he himself enters upon the stage of action. The book gives us an
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account,
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I. Of the Jews' return out of their captivity,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+1:1-2:70"><I>ch.</I> i., ii.</A>
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II. Of the building of the temple, the opposition it met with, and yet
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the perfecting of it at last,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+3:1-6:22"><I>ch.</I> iii.-vi.</A>
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III. Of Ezra's coming to Jerusalem,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+7:1-8:36"><I>ch.</I> vii., viii.</A>
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IV. Of the good service he did there, in obliging those that had
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married strange wives to put them away,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+9:1-10:44"><I>ch.</I> ix., x.</A>
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This beginning again of the Jewish nation was small, yet its latter end
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