John Trapp on Ezra 10:4

Verſe 4. Ariſe] Surge age Summe Pater, ſaid Mantuan to the Pope, exciting him to take Arms againſt the Turk: to the ſame ſenſe Shechaniah here to Ezra: or rather as Jehovah to Joſhuah chap. 7.10. Get thee up: why lyeſt thou here on thy face?

For this matter belongeth unto thee] Who haſt both an heart to do it, as appeares by thine humiliation, and alſo power in thine hand, as witneſſeth thy commiſſion.

We alſo will be with thee] Every man muſt ſhew himſelf forward to further the work of Reformation, moving regularly within his own ſphere, and trading every talent for that end and purpoſe.

Be of good courage and do it] Theſe were verba non inflantia, ſed inflammantia. And thus may one by his hearty good counſel, become an Angel, nay a God to another. Senarclaeus, in an Epiſtle to Bucer, telling how John Diazius the Martyr diſcourſed unto him the Night before, he was butchered by the appointment of his own Brother Alphonſus, hath this notable expreſſion; Ego verò illius oratione ſic incendebar, &c. I was ſo inflamed with his words, as if I had heard the Holy Ghoſt himſelf ſpeaking unto me.