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Let your hands be strong; be of good courage, and hearten on each other to the expectation of God’s promise, and the doing your duty.
Ye, you returned captives, that hear: this is an argument to revive their courage, they hear God by his word very fairly proposing great things.
In these days; in these days of Darius Hystaspes, some twelve, or fifteen, or perhaps eighteen years since the time I point at. In these days of hope from Darius favourably helping, but most from God assisting and blessing.
These words, promises, exhortations, and counsels, by the mouth of the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah.
In the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid; in the second year of Cyrus, which if reckoned from his succeeding of his father Cambyses in the Persian crown, and his father-in-law Cyaxares in the crown of Media, which happened near about A.M. 3167, unto the second of Darius Hystaspes, A.M. 3485, that is eighteen years ago, will make it likely that Haggai and Zechariah are intended there: but to lay it so that this re-edifying of the temple be in the second of Darius Nothus, is to make these two prophets either to be silent one hundred and twelve years together, or to preach with little success and less complaint, for I do not remember that either of them chargeth this people with this particular fault.
That the temple might be built, according to God’s command and your duty.