There is no way that Ezra said to himself,
William HarrellI think I am going to make myself an expert on the law of God, the Word of God, because then I will get the attention of the king of Persia. And he will send me back with another wave of Jews returning and give us all this stuff.No way! Because that is not how you come to God's Word to study it. You study God's Word for its own sake. God is not a means to an end. God is the end in itself. But because he is the God that he is, he blesses us with smaller blessings, worldly blessings, besides the supreme blessing of being in communion with him.1
6 Cet Esdras vint de Babylone: c'était un scribe versé dans la loi de Moïse, donnée par l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël. Et comme la main de l'Eternel, son Dieu, était sur lui, le roi lui accorda tout ce qu'il avait demandé.