George Leo Haydock, on Neh 9:2

“And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.”

“Stranger; idolatrous woman. (Haydock) — True repentance requires the works of mortification, and particularly the removal of all occasions of sin and disorderly pleasures. (Worthington) — The reformation had been commenced under Esdras, but some had relapsed, 1 Esdras x. 3. (Calmet) — The true born Israelites would have no society with the sons of infidels. (Tirinus) — Fathers, that they might not be punished for them, Exodus xx. 5. (Calmet)”

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