Those who undervalue their relation to the Lord in times of reproach, persecution, or distress, will have no benefit from it when it becomes honourable or profitable. Those who have no evidence that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests unto God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians.
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Ezra 2:36-63
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:1-70Men forsaking the worldly life. We regard the people returning from Babylon as typical of men going out of the worldly life into the life and work of the kingdom of God. Observe— I. THAT MEN FORSAKE THE WORLDLY LIFE FRO…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:1-67Spiritual significances. What signifies to us, it may be asked, the exact number of the children of Parosh and Shephatiah (Ezra 2:3, Ezra 2:4)? What does it signify to us that the heads of the returning families bore su…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:1-67EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1-64). It has been argued that the whole of this chapter is out of place here, and has been transferred hit…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:1-67The muster-roll. The last chapter gave us a catalogue of the sacred vessels returned. In that portion of the present chapter which concludes with the above verses we have a similar catalogue of the sacred people returne…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Ezra 2:36-63Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezra 2:64), and four families of priests made up above…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:36The priests. Four priestly families went up with Zerubbabel. Of these, three traced their descent to persons who had been heads of the priestly courses in the reign of David, viz; Jedaiah, Immer, and Hardin (1 Chronicle…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:40The Levites. The non-priestly Levites are divided into three classes:— 1. Ordinary Levites (Ezra 2:40); 2. Choral Levites (Ezra 2:41); and Levites descended from those who had had the charge of the temple gates (Ezra 2:…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:41The singers, the children of Asaph. See 2 Chronicles 25:1. It is remarkable that no descendants of either Heman or Jeduthun (ibid.) took part in the return.Joseph S. Exell and contributors