Stelle Potest autem et ea discretione fact...; (In Ezram et Neemiam libri III (725 - 731), Lib. 2 (lin. 1716)) [3538]
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| ID | 3538 |
| Text | In Ezram et Neemiam libri III (725 - 731) Bede |
| Quotation | Potest autem et ea discretione factum intellegi quod prius innocentes et recti ad eum confluxerint cum ait, et conuenerunt ad me omnes qui timebant uerbum dei israhel etiam pro transgressione eorum qui de captiuitate uenerant, nunc uero etiam ipsi qui peccauerunt cum uxoribus suis et liberis paenitentiam acturi conuenerint. Et respondit sechenia filius ieihel de filiis helam et dixit ezrae: nos praeuaricati sumus in deum nostrum et duximus uxores alienigenas de populis terrae. Secheniam hunc iosephus dicit primum fuisse hierosolimitarum qui et ipse ut principem decebat maxima auctoritate mox intentionem ezrae iuuabat et populum uidelicet una se cum peccasse confitendo et paenitentiam esse agendam suadendo abiectis uxoribus alienigenis cum eis qui ex illis nati erant liberis. |
| Translation | The event can also be understood to have happened in this way, namely that first those who were innocent and righteous flocked to Ezra when he says, And all who feared the word of God concerning this transgression of those who had come up from captivity gathered round me, but now those who had sinned also came to do penance,together with their wives and children.[10:2] And Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam answered and said to Ezra, ‘We have sinned against our God and hav emarried foreign wives from the peoples of the land’. Josephus says that this Shecaniah was the first of the citizens of Jerusalem who himself,as was proper for a leader, immediately used his great authority to support Ezra’s plan, both by acknowledging that the people had sinned as he himself had done and by urging that it was necessary for them to do penance after casting out their foreign wives along with the children who were born of them. (Trans. DeGregorio, p. 143) |
| Quotation source | Lib. 2 (lin. 1716) |
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