After the Exile a Hundred Years of Jewish History And Literature volume 1
After the Exile a Hundred Years of Jewish History And Literature volume 1
Peter Hay Hunter
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THE EDICT OF DARIUS. national misfortunes, was that held on the ninth day of the fifth month (iVb), the day when 'the heathen had entered the sanctuary' and given it to the flames. Year after year, this fast had been faithfully observed ; it had become an institution of the Captivity. But now that the new Temple was rapidly nearing completion, and better days seemed at hand, the propriety of continuing this observance began to be called in question by some, at least, among the Jews of Babylon. ...It seemed out of place that they should be mingling their lamentations over the old Temple with their rejoicings over the new^ It might even be that their mourning for the past w^as displeasing to Jehovah, as implying a doubt of the divine blessing which rested on the present, of the divine promise given for the future. In order to have these doubts solved, they sent tw^o of their number, Sharezer and Eegem-melech — Chaldsean names both, but borne by good Israelites — with their retinue to Jerusalem, to consult the priests and prophets there.
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