John Trapp on Ezra 4:12

Verſe 12. The rebellious and bad City] After ſo many years, doth Jeruſalem rue one perfidious act of Zedekiah: and having once beene treacherous, it ſtill hears, The rebellious and bad City, as if it had beene a very [non-Latin text not transcribed], a profeſſed Sanctuary of roguery, (as the Jeſuites ſay of Geneva) and as Florus ſaith of the Temple at Jeruſalem, that it was impiae gentis arcanum.

And have ſet up the walls thereof] This was no leſſe falſe then ſcandalous. But malice careth not how true the accuſation is, but how miſchievous.

And joyned the foundations] Chald. ſewed together. Or, rather theſe falſe-informers had ſewed a lie together with great Art, that it might ſeeme a truth, Pſal. 119.69. The proud have forged a lie againſt me, aſſuunt mendacium mendacio, they have taught their tongues to ſpeak lies, Jer. 9.5. and are Artiſts at it.