George Leo Haydock, on Neh 13:4

“And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the treasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.”

“Over this thing, &c. Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this kind. (Challoner) — He was the source of all this evil. Hebrew, “and before this Eliasib,” &c. It is probable that he was a different person from the high priest, (Usher) who had married his grandson to the daughter of Sanaballat, the intimate friend of Tobias. (Calmet) — The latter was a persecutor, and prefigured heretics, as Nehemias did our Saviour, who drove traffickers out of the temple. (Ven. Bede in Esdras, L. iii. 19.) (Worthington)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.