The Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 9:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

At the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness. The time of sacrifice was the fittest time for prayer, especially for a prayer in which acknowledgment of sin was to form a large part. Sacrifice symbolized expiation; and Ezra probably felt that his supplication would be helped by the expiatory rite which was being performed at the time.

He rent his garment and his mantle a second time, as a renewed indication of sorrow, and with the view of impressing the people who "were assembled unto him" (verse 4) the more, and stirring them up to penitence.

"Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus."

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