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EZRA
THE ARGUMENT
THAT this book of EZRA is part of the canonical Scripture is evident, partly from the testimony of the Jewish church, to which were committed the oracles of God, Rom 3:2, who also did carefully keep them, and faithfully transmit them to us, and are not once charged either by Christ or his apostles with breach of that trust; and partly by the unanimous consent of all, both Jews and Christians, at this day. And that Ezra was thee writer of this book, is also, and ever was, the opinion of the Jews, who had thee best means of knowing this, and is most agreeable to his quality, for he was the son, or grandson, (as the word is elsewhere used,) of Seraiah, Ezr 7:1, who was the high priest, 2Ki 25:18; 1Ch 6:14; and he was a ready scribe of the law of Moses, Ezr 7:6, and endowed with a more than ordinary measure of God's Spirit, as is evident from this book; and was himself an eye-witness of these transactions. In his time also there lived divers other holy men of God, as Daniel, and Nehemiah, and Mordecai, and Zorobabel, and Joshua; which makes that probable which the Jews report, that these prophets and other holy and learned men did review thee canonical books of the Old Testament, and added here and there some few passages in the historical books, and digested them into that order in which now we have them in our Hebrew Bibles; this being a work most suitable to the prudence, and piety, and sacred function of these persons, and to the present estate of the Jewish nation, who had been long in captivity in Babylon, where it was to be feared that many of them were ignorant or corrupt in the principles of religion, and who were yet in a broken condition, and likely to be exposed to further calamities and dispersions; which also might be signified to some of them; and it was suitable also to that care which the wise and gracious God hath ever used for the guidance of his church, according to their several occasions and necessities.
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Ezra 0:0 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ezra 0:0 - The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ezra 0:0 - B.H. Carroll's An Interpretation of the English Bible
Ezra 0:0 - Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Ezra 0:0 - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Ezra 0:0 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Ezra 0:0 - Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Ezra 0:0 - Everett's Study Notes on the Holy Scriptures
Ezra 0:0 - Expositor's Dictionary of Text by Robertson
Ezra 0:0 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Ezra 0:0 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Ezra 0:0 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary
Ezra 0:0 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae (Old and New Testaments)
Ezra 0:0 - Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Ezra 0:0 - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ezra 0:0 - Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
Ezra 0:0 - The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Ezra 0:0 - A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by Lange
Ezra 0:0 - Expositions Of Holy Scripture by Alexander MacLaren
Ezra 0:0 - The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Ezra 0:0 - Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Ezra 0:0 - English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Ezra 0:0 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Ezra 0:0 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary
Ezra 0:0 - The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist by Riley
Ezra 0:0 - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole (1624–1679) wrote English Annotations on the Holy Bible, completing the chapters as far as Isaiah 58 before his death in 1679. The rest of the Annotations were completed by friends and colleagues among his Nonconformist brethren. The first printing of the completed edition was in 1685, 2 volumes folio, followed by editions in 1688, 1696 (with valuable chapter outlines added by the editors, Samuel Clark and Edward Veale), and the 4th and definitive edition in 1700, the basis of all others.