John Trapp on Ezra 1:7

Verſe 7. Alſo Cyrus the King brought forth the veſſels] For example to others, & juſſit, & geſſit, he did himſelf what he commanded to be done, and ſo became a living Law, a walking Statute. So Juſtinian would not put the veſſels of the Temple (taken by Titus) and recovered from Genſericus into the publike treaſury, but reſtored them.

Which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth] With profane and ſacrilegious hands, ſome of theſe ſacred veſſels and utenſils of the Temple, he had cut in pieces, 2 Kings 24.13. and others he carried away, 2 Chron. 36.7. whole and entire. This he did out of covetouſneſſe (that auri ſacra fames) and in ſcorne of all religion (rather then hatred of the Jewiſh ſuperſtition, or to avenge the quarrel of Gods Covenant) like as for the ſame reaſon his ſucceſſour Cambyſes deſtroyed the Egyptian Idols.Virg. Iſa. 10.

And had put them] There was a ſweet providence in that: to the end that being there reſerved, they might in due time be reſtored (as here they are) to the houſe of God at Jeruſalem. And although that was a moſt unfit place to keep them in (for what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols?) and Belſhazzar moſt profanely abuſed them,2 Cor. 6.16. Dan. 5.2. in that drunken feaſt of his (hence he is called the feſtival King, Ezek. 21.5. 6.) yet being ſanctified againe, and dedicated to the true and firſt owner, the God of Iſrael, they might lawfull be made uſe of. Not only things indifferent abuſed, may yet be uſed in the ſervice of God (as thoſe ſix water-pots were by our Saviour, John 2. though they had beene ſuperſtitiouſly abuſed for private purification) but alſo Idolatrous things and places. As Gideon took the Bullock appointed for Baal and the Grove, and offered the Bullock with that wood in ſacrifice to the Lord, Judg. 6.26. The like the Bethſhemites did by the Philiſtines Cart and Kine. The Mount of Olives was ſhamefully abuſed to idolatry by Solomon and others, ſo that it was called The Mount of corruption, 2 Kings 23.13. and yet was it our Saviours uſual Oratory, or place of Prayer.

In the houſe of his Gods] Bel and Nebo, Eſay 46.1. Theſe were Babylons chief gods. The Original of Bel is ſaid to be this: Ninus having made an Image of his father Belus, all that came to ſee it were pardoned for all their offences: whence in time that Image came to be worſhipped, and then afterwards a multitude more; Inſomuch as, [non-Latin text not transcribed], &c. Hef. that in Heſiods time the number of Heatheniſh gods was grown to thirty thouſand. And in China at this day ſome tell us that there are no fewer then an hundred thouſand Idols.

O curas hominum! O quantum eſt in rebus inane! [non-Latin text not transcribed]. &c.

Gods theſe Mawmets are called here; not becauſe they were ſo, (for there is one God onely, ſaid Pythagoras, and other Heathens) but becauſe Nebuchadnezzar falſely held them ſo. Like as elſewhere the gods of Damaſcus are ſaid to have ſmitten Ahaz, who therefore ſacrificed to them, 2 Chron. 20.23. not as if thoſe Idols were any thing in the world, or could do any thing at all to him, Jer. 10.5. 1 Cor. 8.4. but onely that he conceited ſo; and that the devil (who is [non-Latin text not transcribed], as Syneſius truly ſaith) abuſed his credulity.