John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 10:44

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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All these had taken strange wives, etc.] In all about one hundred and thirteen: and some of them had wives by whom they had children; and yet they put them away, which made it the more difficult for them to do; and those that had none, it is thought to be a mark of God’s displeasure at such marriages. No mention being made of the children being put away, as Shechaniah proposed, (<151003>Ezra 10:3), it may be concluded they were not, but were taken care of, to be educated in the true religion, and entered proselytes at a proper time; and the rather, as Ezra gave no orders about their putting away, (<151011>Ezra 10:11). FOOTNOTES ft1 - Origen apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. l. 6. c. 25. Hieron. Opera, tom. 3. Epist. ad Paulin. fol. 6. B. & ad Domnion. & Rogat. fol. 7. G. ft2 - Seder Olam Zuta, p. 108. ft3 - Lactant. Institut. l. 4. c. 11. ft4 - Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. ft5 - Demonstr. Evangel. prop. 4. p. 208, 209. ft6 - Annal. Vet. Test. p. 146, 193. ft7 - De Divinatione, l. 1. ft8 - Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 214. ft9 - Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 10. c. 10. p. 488. ft10 - Nic. Abrami Pharus, p. 303. ft11 - Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 130. So Sallust, Bell. Catalin. p. 2. ft12 - Cyropaedia, l. 1. in principio. ft13 - 8. c. 48. ft14 - Antiqu. l. 11. c. 1. sect. 1, 2. ft15 - Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 5. p. 82. ft16 - Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 11. c. 1. sect. 3. ft17 - Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1. ft18 - Works, vol. 1. p. 127. So Broughton, Works, p. 258. ft19 - Vid. Rainold. de Libr. Apocryph. Praelect. 111, 117, 148. ft20 - Hieros. Taanioth, fol. 68. 1. ft21 - Ebr. Comment. p. 809. ft22 - Var. Hist. l. 1. c. 21. Vid. Corn. Nep. Vit. Conon. l. 9. c. 3. ft23 - Bab. Yoma, fol. 21. 2. ft24 - Bab. Sotah, fol. 48. 2. & Gloss. in Kiddushin, fol. 60. 2. ft25 - Seder Olam Rabba, c. 29. p. 86. ft26 - Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 5. p. 82. ft27 - Ed. of Sixtus V. and the Lovain in James’s Contrariety of Popish Bibles, p. 295. ft28 - De Pret. & Ponder. Vet. Num. ch. iii. v. ft29 - Scripture Weights & Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. ft30 - Sixtus V. Lovain & MSS. in James ut supra. (Contrariety of Popish Bibles, p. 295) ft31 - Ut supra, (De Pret. & Ponder. Vet. Num.) ch. iv. v. ft32 - Universal History, vol. 10. p. 183, marg. ft33 - [gyw “cum appropinquaret”, Piscator. ft34 - yk “quamvis”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Patrick. ft35 - Etsi, Michaelis. ft36 - ˆwyçrk “juxta praeceptum”, Vatablus; “juxta quod praeceperat”, V. L. So Ben Melech. ft37 - Pausan. Messenica, sive, l. 4. p. 368. ft38 - Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 3. ft39 - Spanhem. Introduct. Chron. ad Hist. Eccl. p. 54. & Universal History, Vol. 5. p. 203. Prideaux, p. 175. ft40 - Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4.) sect. 4, 6. Vid. R. David Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 8. 2. So Dr. Lightfoot, Works, vol. 1. p. 139. ft41 - Prideaux’s Connect. par. 1. p. 175. Authors of the Universal History, vol. 5. p. 199, 203. So Vitringa, Hypotypos. Hist. Sacr. p. 108. ft42 - Herodot. Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 67. Justin. l. 1. c. 9. ft43 - Praefat. Arugas Habbosem apud Buxtorf. de liter. Heb. add. ft44 - So Midrash Esther, fol. 85. 3. ft45 - Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. ft46 - Kimchi Sepher Shorash. fol. 166. 2. & Vajikra Rabba in ib. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 94. 1. ft47 - Connexion, etc. vol. 1. p. 30. ft48 - Tzemach David, fol. 63. 3. ft49 - jlm “salem vel sale”, Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis. ft50 - Nat. Hist. l. 31. c. 7. ft51 - So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 15. 3. ft52 - ayrps tybb, en taiv biblioyhkaiv, Sept. “i…

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