What melancholy information was given to Ezra by the princes, and how was he affected by it ? v. 1—3.
Whose sin was peculiarly aggravated in this affair? Lev. 21.7—15. Mai. 2. 7, 8.
Who gathered themselves to Ezra, and by what tokens did he express his unspeakable grief?
Is this a specimen of the manner in which the godly ought ever to be affected in view of great public transgressions?
What did he do at the time of the evening sacrifice?
What are the principal sins acknowledged in this prayer, and what considerations are cited as heightening the guilt of them?
Does it appear from this prayer that we are not to confine our confessions to our own transgressions, hut to extend them to those of our fathers and our brethren?
Are those to be found fault with who go back in their humiliation as far as to the first sin of Adam himself?
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