היכל יהוה ועד היום הזה (as Kosters remarks). Besides, as Kosters has pointed out (pp. 7 ff. of the Germ. trans. of _Het Herstel_, etc.), even if Van Hoonacker’s translation of למן were correct, the context would show that it might refer only to a laying of the foundation-stone since Haggai’s first address to the people, and therefore the question of an earlier foundation-stone under Cyrus would remain unsolved. Consequently Haggai ii. 18 cannot be quoted as a proof of the latter. See above, p. 216. [709] Meaning _there is none_. [710]‎ ועוד or וְעֹד for וְעַד, after LXX. καὶ εἰ ἔτι. [711] The twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, according to chap. i. 15. [712] See above, p. 228. [713] “For I believe the devil’s voice Sinks deeper in our ear, Than any whisper sent from heaven, However sweet and clear.” [714] Only in xxxiv. 24, xxxvii. 22, 24. [715]‎ נשׂיא: cf. Skinner, _Ezekiel_ (Expositor’s Bible Series), pp. 447 ff., who, however, attributes the diminution of the importance of the civil head in Israel, not to the feeling that he would henceforth always be subject to a foreign emperor, but to the conviction that in the future he will be “overshadowed by the personal presence of Jehovah in the midst of His people.” [716] See above, p. 227. [717] LXX. enlarges: _and the sea and the dry land_. [718] Heb. sing. collect. LXX. plural. [719] Again a sing. coll. _ZECHARIAH_ (_I.-VIII._) _Not by might, and not by force, but by My Spirit, saith Jehovah of Hosts._ _Be not afraid, strengthen your hands! Speak truth, every man to his neighbour; truth and wholesome judgment judge ye in your gates, and in your hearts plan no evil for each other, nor take pleasure in false swearing, for all these things do I hate—oracle of Jehovah._ CHAPTER XIX _THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH (I.-VIII.)_ The Book of Zechariah, consisting of fourteen chapters, falls clearly into two divisions: _First_, chaps. i.—viii., ascribed to Zechariah himself and full of evidence for their authenticity; _Second_, chaps. ix.—xiv., which are not ascribed to Zechariah, and deal with conditions different from those upon which he worked. The full discussion of the date and character of this second section we shall reserve till we reach the period at which we believe it to have been written. Here an introduction is necessary only to chaps. i.—viii. These chapters may be divided into five sections. I. Chap. i. 1-6.—A Word of Jehovah which came to Zechariah in the eighth month of the second year of Darius, that is in November 520 B.C., or between the second and the third oracles of Haggai.[720] In this the prophet’s place is affirmed in the succession of the prophets of Israel. The ancient prophets are gone, but their predictions have been fulfilled in the calamities of the Exile, and God’s Word abides for ever.