Ezra 10:3

10:3

enact <03772> [let us make.]

{Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:"

send <03318> [put away. Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel.]

respect <02730> [of those that.]

commandments <04687> [at the commandment.]

it ... done <06213> [let it.]

Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is {Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet,} "That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide." See .# 1Co 7:12,13