John Trapp on Ezra 6:16

Verſe 16. Kept the dedication — with joy] So they did at the dedication of the firſt Temple, 2 Chron. 7.10. God had required all his worſhips to be celebrated with joy, Deut. 12.7. and made it a condition of an acceptable ſervice, Deut. 26.14. Sacrifices offered with mourning were abomination, Hoſ. 9.4. yea, accurſed by God, Deut. 28.47. What a general joy was there at Samaria, when Chriſt was firſt preached and beleeved on amongſt them, Acts 8.8. when they firſt became Gods building, 1 Cor. 3.9. a Temple for God to dwell in and walk in, 2 Cor. 6.16? The like was at Bern, at Geneva, at Zurick, when the reformed Religion was firſt received amongſt them. They cauſed (for joy thereof) the day and yeare to be engraven in a pillar in letters of gold, for a perpetual memory to all poſterity. Like as at Heidelberg, Anno, 1617. in the Calends of November, Acts & Mon. Vita Parci operib. praefix. they kept, for three dayes ſpace, an Evangelical Jubile, for joy of the Reformation begun by Luther, an hundred years before.