John Trapp on Ezra 10:19-43

Verſe 19. And they gave their hands,] Id eſt, They plighted their troth, and aſſured the aſſent of their hearts, 2 Kings 10.15.

That they would put away their Wives] Though as dear to them haply, as was George Carpenters (Martyr) burnt at Munchen in Bavaria: My Wife and Children, ſaid he, are ſo dear unto me, that they cannot be bought from me for all the riches and poſſeſſions of the Duke of Bavaria: but for the love of my Lord God I will willingly forſake them. Act. & Mon. 806. Let us do ſo by our dilecta delicta, our deareſt, and moſt delicious ſins.

They offered a Ram of the Flock] This ſhewes that they ſinned againſt knowledge: for for a ſin of ignorance the oblation was not a Ram, but a goat.