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Identifier: biblehandbookint00angu_1 (find matches)
Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
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steem of the jconqueror Cyrus. To that monarch he probably showed thepredictions of Isaiah, and now that at the end of seventyyears of captivity Cyrus found the sovereign power in hishands, he issued a decree, in which, after acknowledging thesupremacy of Jehovah, he gave permission to the Jews in anypart of his dominions to return to their own land, and to rebuildthe city and temple of Jerusalem. The results of this decree,and the subsequent history of the Jews till the close of theOld Testament canon, are found in the remaining books ofthe Bible. Attention to the chronological order of the bookais important. The arrangement will be found in Pt.II.§ 6. Sec. 5.—The Books of Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther,Nehemiah, Malachi. the book of ezra, b. c. 536-457. 95. Ezra Avas one of the captives at Babylon, where he wasprobably born. He was the grandson of Seraiah, the chiefpriest, who was slain at the taking of Jerusalem (2 Kings xxv.18-21), and therefore a descendant of Aaron. He was a
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64 ii EZRA. 569 ready scribe, or rather instructor, in the law of Gcd. Hewas a man of deep humility (ix. 10-15), of fervent zeal forGods honor (vii. 10; viii. 21-23), deeply grieving over thesins of the people, and scaring no pains to bring them to re-pentance (ix. 3; x. 6, 10). He joined the Jews at Jerusalemmany years after their return, going up thither with the secondlarge company. Part of the book (iv. 8-vi. 19; vii. 1-27), is written in Chaldee, andconsists chiefly of conversations or decrees in that tongue. Ezra speaksof himself as the author in vii. 27, 28; viii. 1, 25-29; ix. 5. Thewhole period comprehended in this book extends from 536 to 457 B. C,or about seventy-nine years. The history in this book consists of two portions, separated fromeach other by a considerable interval of time. The first contains thehistory of the returning exiles, and of the rebuilding of the temple,which had been decreed by Cyrus, in the year 536 B. C, and completedin the reign of Darius Hystaspes,

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