Ezra 10 - Introduction
* Ezra encourages to reformation. (1-5) He assembles the people. (6-14) Reformation effected. (15-44)... [ Continue Reading ]
* Ezra encourages to reformation. (1-5) He assembles the people. (6-14) Reformation effected. (15-44)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-5 Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable. Now that the people begin to lament, a spirit of repentance seems to be poured out; now there is hope that God will forgive, and have mercy. The sin that rightly troubles u... [ Continue Reading ]
6-14 There is hope concerning people, when they are convinced, not only that it is good to part with their sins, but that it is necessary; we must do it, or we are undone. So rich is the mercy, and so plenteous the redemption of God, that there is hope for the vilest who hear the gospel, and are wil... [ Continue Reading ]
15-44 The best reformers can but do their endeavour; when the Redeemer himself shall come to Zion, he shall effectually turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And when sin is repented of and forsaken, God will forgive it; but the blood of Christ, our Sin-offering, is the only atonement which takes away o... [ Continue Reading ]