NINE of the twelve minor prophets preached before the
captivity; but the three last, some time after it. Haggai and Zachariah
appeared about the same time, eighteen years after the return, and
encouraged the people to build the temple, when the work had stopped for
some time, notwithstanding all the opposition they met with. Haggai
began two months before Zachariah, who was raised up to second him. But
Zachariah continued longer at the work: for all Haggai's prophecies
which are recorded, were delivered within four months in the second year
of Darius; but we have Zachariah's prophecies dated above two years
after. They both prophesied of Christ. Haggai speaks of him as the glory
of the latter house, Zachariah as the man, the branch. In them the light
of that morning-star shone more bright, than in the foregoing
prophecies, as they lived nearer the time of the rising of the Sun of
Righteousness.
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