Ezra 2:3

The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

Ver. 3. The children of Parosh] Question is here made by some, whether this and other like Chapter s, that are nothing but names and numbers, should be read in course, since they may seem to be of no great use to us? To this Chrysostom answereth, In sacris libris nihil contemnatur aut obiter praetereatur, etiamsi nomina recenseantur, that is, let no part of the Holy Scripture be slighted or skipped over, no, though we meet with nothing but names only. But forasmuch as there is never a leaf, nay, line, nay, letter in God's book, that is not pure, precious, and profitable, Pro 30:5 Psalms 12:6 2 Timothy 3:16 (the Rabbins have a saying that there is a mountain of sense hanging upon every apex or tittle of the word of God); therefore must we read all, in obedience to him, who hath written for us these excellent things in counsel and knowledge, Proverbs 22:20, and if anything be yet hid, God shall reveal even this unto us, Philippians 3:15. Joseph understood not his own dreams at first, till he saw his brethren prostrate before him; then Joseph remembered the dreams that he dreamed of them, Genesis 42:9. The disciples conceived not, believed not, many things done by and to their Master, till he was glorified, and they further enlightened, John 2:22; John 12:6. Surely if Hippocrates could say of medicine, that there was nothing to be accounted little in it, nothing contemptible (ουδεν μικρον, ουδεν καταφρονητεον); how much more may we say the same of divinity and of the Scriptures!