John Trapp on Ezra 9:2

Verſe 2. For they have taken of their daughters] Taken them for wives: which was fllatly forbidden, Deut. 7.3. and a reaſon given, ver. 4. from the evil effect of ſuch unbleſt marriages. This abuſe Malachi complaineth of, chap. 2.11, 13. whom ſome make to be the ſame man with Ezra.

For themſelves and for their ſons] Whom they herein helped to a cold arm-ful, (as Lycophron calleth a bad wife:) or rather to an unnatural heat, worſe then that of a quartan ague, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. as ſaid Simonides: as bad as that of an evil ſpirit, ſaid another Heathen.

So that the holy ſeed] Id eſt, The children of Iſrael, who were all federally holy at leaſt, Deut. 7.6. as are alſo all the children of Chriſtian Parents, 1 Cor. 7.14.

Hath been chief in this treſpaſſe] Which they think audaciouſly to bear out with their big looks, to obtrude and juſtify to the World this moſt malapert miſdemeanour, becauſe it is facinus majoris abollae, the fact of a great one.