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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the sacerdotal race, and prophesied during the captivity. This book contains denunciations against the Jewish people for their sins, the destruction of several nations neighbouring to the Jews, which were speedily accomplished, and also the overthrow of Tyre. The last nine chapters contain a description of the future glory of the church, under the figure of a new temple, with consolatory promises to the Jews, under the kingdom of the Messiah. Prophets who lived after the return of the Jews from Babylon. Haggai?B.c. 520-516. The Jews having discontinued the rebuilding of the temple, the prophet Haggai was commissioned to encourage them in their work, foretelling that, although the second temple was a less magnificent structure than the first, yet that its glory should be greater; which prediction was accomplished by the presence of Jesus Christ, who taught daily in the temple. Zechariah B.c. 520-518. Zechariah was contemporary with Haggai, and equally exerted himself in promoting the building of the temple. There are many predictions in this book relative to the coming of the Messiah, and also concerning the war of the Romans against the Jews. Mai.achi?B.c. 436-397- Malachi is the last of the prophets, and prophesied while Nehemiah was governor of Judea, assisting, by his advice, in the reforms instituted by that wise and pious governor. The people having fallen into irreligion, the prophet was commissioned to reprove both priests and chapter{Section 4people, denouncing the wrath of God against them. He foretells the coming of Christ, and His forerunner, John the Baptist; and it is a remarkable fact, that this, the last book of the Old Testament, concludes with a reference to the event with which the New Testament begins, viz., the ministry of John th...