John Trapp on Nehemiah 7:1

CHAP. VII. Verſe 1. When the Wall was built.]

FOR better defence of the City. Moenia, à munienda urbe dicuntur.

And I had ſet up the doors] We may not take this expreſſion for a vain-glorious haec ego feci, ſuch as was that of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 4.30. boaſting as if he (and not Ninus) had built Babel, when he enlarged it onely, and built the Palace: Or that of Auguſtus, Ʋrbem ego lateritiam inveni, marmoream reliqui. We read of one Lampadius a Noble man in Rome, Am. Marcellini. who per omnia Civitatis membra, through all parts of the City, where other great men had beſtowed coſt in building, he would ſet up his own Name (not as a Repairer of the work neither, but) as the chief builder. Trajan the Emperour alſo is ſaid to have been ſick of this diſeaſe: and was therefore called by way of jeare Wallweed. But good Nehemiah was none ſuch: he was humiliter ſublimis, & ſublimiter humilis, Herba pa[illegible: 1 letter]ietina. as Cyprian phraſeth it that is, humbly lofty, and loftily humble; humble in heart, [non-Latin text not transcribed] and yet high in worth and works, as Nazianzen ſaith of Athanaſius.

And the Levites were appointed] Viz. to their ſeveral ſervices in the Temple, (as David had diſtributed them:) after that they had been otherwiſe imployed about the building.