John Trapp on Ezra 2:3-42

Ver. 3. The children of Paroſh] Queſtion is here made by ſome, whether this and other like Chapters that are nothing but names and numbers, ſhould be read in courſe; ſith they may ſeeme to be of no great uſe to us? To this Chryſoſtome anſwereth, In ſacris libris nihil contemnatur aut obitèr praetereatur, etiamſi nomina recenſeantur, that is, Let no part of holy Scripture be ſlighted or skipped over, no, though we meet with nothing but names onely. But foraſmuch as there is never a leaf, nay, line, nay, letter in Gods book, that is not pure, precious, and profitable, Prov. 30.5. Pſal. 12.6. 2 Tim. 3.16. (The Rabbines have a ſaying, that there is a mountaine of ſenſe hanging upon every apex or tittle of the Word of God) therefore muſt we reade all in obedience to Him, who hath written for us theſe excellent things in counſel and knowledge, Prov. 22.20. and if any thing be yet hid, God ſhall reveale even this unto us, Phil. 3.15. Joſeph underſtood not his owne dreames at firſt, till he ſaw his brethren proſtrate before him; Then Joſeph remembred the dreames that he dreamed of them, Gen. 42.9. The Diſciples conceived not, beleeved not many things done by and to their Maſter, till he was glorified, and they farther illightened, John 2.22. and 12.6. Surely if Hippocrates could ſay of Phyſick, that there was nothing to be accounted little in it, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. nothing contemptible; how much more may we ſay the ſame of Divinity, and of the Scriptures?