John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 7:25

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, etc.] Which he had a large share of from the Lord, and could readily make use of to good purpose; and this may be meant of the law of God made with the highest wisdom, and to know and observe which is an instance of wisdom in men, (<050406>Deuteronomy 4:6), set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; such as God, in his great wisdom, directed to in his wise law to be appointed over the people, to judge righteous judgment; to inform them in all matters of controversy that might arise among them, and decide them according to it; and lead them into a greater and better knowledge of it, (<051618>Deuteronomy 16:18 17:9). Jarchi takes the word for “set” to be a comparative, and the sense to be, that the wisdom of Ezra was greater than the judges that judged the people, than them that knew the law: and teach ye them that know them not; such people that were ignorant thereof; though the above writer interprets this of ignorant judges, “the judge that knows not to judge, make him know judgment to do it.”

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