Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month.”3 And as a sequel to the words that we have quoted above: “The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts.”4 In the same way Zechariah begins: “In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet
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