John Trapp on Ezra 8:3

Verſe 3. Of the males an hundred and fifty] Great account was made of males under the Law, Blounts voyage. more then of the females: and ſo there is to this day among the Jewes, who hold women to be of a lower creation, made onely for the propagation and pleaſure of man, &c. This their conceit is their folly, yet their poſterity approve their ſayings. He did better who ſtiled woman the ſecond Edition of the Epitome of the whole world. Sure it is, that ſoules have no ſexes; and in Chriſt, there is no reſpect had more to the male then female, Gal. 3.28.