_A GRIEVOUS TRESPASS_
‘We have trespassed against our God.’
Ezra 10:2
I. IT WAS, WITHOUT DOUBT, A VERY GRIEVOUS SIN.—The people had acted
in direct violation of the express commandment of God, and nothing
would tend to hinder the testimony and impede the influence of the
chosen people more fatal... [ Continue Reading ]
_VICARIOUS PENITENCE_
‘He mourned because of the transgression of them.’
Ezra 10:6
I. AN INNOCENT YET PENITENT LEADER.—It is certainly worthy of
remark that it is not narrated of Ezra that he, as we should expect,
expressly and severely denounced the men married to strange wives, but
that we are... [ Continue Reading ]