Ezra 3

They are either public, private (Nehemiah 8:5, 13). Public, is to join with the Church from the beginning to the ending, in the hearing of the word preached, in praying, and administering of the Sacraments (Ezekiel 46:1, 2, 3, 10; Nehemiah 9; Ezra 3; Acts 15:20, 21 and 17:2 and…

He answers, that the length of time shall not prevent God from raising up the things again that were fallen to the earth for many years together. Now this must not be restrained to the building of the Temple begun by Zerobabel, and continued by Nehemias, (Ezra 3:8), but it compr…

Now we know that this prophecy was never accomplished in the external restoration of this people. No, it is certain that the beauty of the second Temple was far inferior to the first (Ezra 3:12-13). It follows then, that the Prophet who in spirit, saw the true redemption, recite…

Victories for his own name's sake, and showers for our sins' sake, both from the same hand, at the same time. The cry of every soul, is like the cry of the multitude of old and young at the laying the foundation of the second Temple: Many shouted aloud for joy, and many wept wit…

Again, Haggai does plainly declare, that when the work of the temple was carrying on in the second year of Darius, that many were yet alive, who had seen the first temple (cap. 2:3). As multitudes were upon the laying of its foundation in the days of Cyrus (Ezra 3:12). And this…

Then must these confluences and co-existences of things be written in the Lord's book, and so decreed (Psalms 139:16), and from the Creator God, as the efficient, and for God and his glory, as the end (Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Proverbs 16:4). The wisdom of God so appoints,…

2. David's exhortation to sing a new song, pertained to them in the Old Testament, as well as to us in the New. And yet they upon new occasions sang the old songs of David, and that with acceptance (2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 20:21; Ezra 3:11). 3. Asaph, Heman, and Ethan, w…

Ariel signifies the Lion of God, and may intend the Altar, which like a lion did devour the sacrifices offered thereon: here then was the true cause of that wo which befell that city and nation, in that matters respecting Ariel, even the Altar and worship of God, were not as sho…