Translations:Does the divorce of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 show that civil government has authority to dissolve marriages or preside over "divorce trials"?/11/en
Some commentators read "divorce trials" into Ezra 10:14. For example, Philip Kayser claims: "Ezra tried each case of improper marriage on its own merit."[1] This is a false claim, which anyone can tell, simply by reading the text of Ezra 10: