John Trapp on Ezra 1:8

Ver. 8. Even thoſe did Cyrus King of Perſia] ſo ſtiled, becauſe though he was Monarch of many Countries, yet Perſia was his hereditary Kingdom, and Perſepolis the place of his reſidence: which great City was afterwards burnt by Alexander the Great, at the motion and by the requeſt of a baſe harlot.

By the hand of Mithridath the treaſurer] Heb. Gizbar; Inde Gaſpar, ſaith one. Mithridates King of Pontus was famous in after-ages, or rather infamous for his craft in ſaving himſelf,Val. Max. and his cruelty to the Roman Merchants, trading thorow his territories, killing fourſcore thouſand of them with one letter.

And numbred them unto Shezbazzar] Joy in tribulation; this is the ſignification of the word: A fit name for a Prince,Neminen à ſe dimiſit triſtem. Sucton. who ſhould be Decliciae orbis, as Titus the Emperour, of whom it is ſaid, that he never ſent away any ſuitor ſad or diſcontented: and remembring on a day that he had not done any poor man good, he cried out to his friends, Hodie non regnavimus: Amici, diem perdidi, accounting that day loſt wherein he had not ſhewed ſome man courteſie. Such a gracious Prince was Job, chap. 29.12. I delivered the poore that cried, ſaith He,Grand. Sign. Se[illegible: 1 letter]ag 148. and the fatherleſſe, and him that had none to help him. The great Turk ſtileth himſelf The worlds refuge: profeſſing that all that lament unto him ſhall have redreſſe and ſuccour. James the fifth of Scotland was called The poor mans King, for his readineſſe to right and relieve the afflicted. Zerubbabel, however he came by this name Shesbazzar (for that he was the man I take for granted, Ezra 5.16. with chap. 3.8. Zech. 4.9. though Junius think otherwiſe) he deſerved it doubtleſſe: and of him it might well be ſaid,Vopiſous. as the Hiſtorian doth of Probus the Emperour, Si probi nomen non haberet, habere cognomen poſſet, Speed. 723. pity he had beene called any thing but Probus, ſo honeſt a Prince he was: think the like here. The Parliament here held Anno 1376, was called The Good Parliament: and another not long after Parlamentum benedictum. The bleſſed Parliament. God grant us ſuch a one next; for at preſent we are without any, but not without cauſe to cry out,This was written, May 18. 1653. as thoſe in Jeremy, chap. 8.20, 22. The harveſt is paſt, the Summer is ended, and we are not helped. Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no Phyſician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? We looked for peace, but no good came: and for a time of health, and behold trouble, ver. 15.