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The book of Zechariah is “the longest and most obscure” of the Twelve Minor Prophets, Jerome remarked. That may have been the reason why in 386 he visited the Alexandrian scholar Didymus the Blind and requested a work on this prophet. Though long thought to be lost, the work was rediscovered in 1941 at Tura outside Cairo along with some other biblical commentaries. As a result we have in our...

in our notes on the divine Psalms and the final vision of Isaiah.19 The savior, however, who is called mountain, is also spoken of as stone in the verse, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Recalling this text in the Acts of the Apostles, Peter, the most eminent disciple of the savior, spoke with greatest reproach against Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees for priding themselves on the Jewish teaching, “He is the stone scorned by you the builders that has become
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