John Trapp on Nehemiah 11:3
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Nehemiah11:3
Verſe 3. Now theſe are the chief of the province] So Judea is called, becauſe now ſubject and tributary to the King of Babylon; as afterwards it was to the Romans (and is therefore called a province, Act. 25.1.) and is now to the Turk. How then could thoſe Jewes in the Goſpel ſay,John 8.33. We are Abrahams ſeed, and were never in bondage to any man, but that they cared not what they ſaid in abravado? Spaniards are ſaid to be impudent braggers: and extreamly proud in the loweſt ebbe of fortune. Theſe Jews were ſo certainly; and ſo they continue.
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