Ezra 2:62Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

The Jewish people meticulously recorded the identities of their priests and kings, as attested by Josephus Flavius. This is further corroborated in the book of Ezra, which recounts that upon returning from Babylon, certain priests who could not be verified as part of the registry were removed from their positions: "these sought," Ezra confirms, "the writing of their generation, and found it not, and were cast out of the priesthood."