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(1:10, 3:1, 10). Not only so, but the enthusiasm engendered by Haggai and Zechariah, which had carried the temple to completion, had passed away. The community had had sufficient time since that event to realise that the high hopes entertained by those prophets had not materialised. The conditions of life after the building of the temple were as hard and barren as they had been before and there was no visible sign of relief. This fixes the terminus a quo at about 510 B.C. The terminus ad quem seems
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