 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...BOOK of the PROPHET MALACHI. • • INTRODUCTION. the latt of the prophets of. the Old Testament, lived some time after the rebuilding of the temple,...probably about the latter end of the times of Ezra and Nehemtah, when zeal and piety were much decayed, God's worship corrupted, aud many tint prevailed among... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1841 - 228 pages
...magicians was forbidden by the Mosaic law, under the penalty of death. Lev. xix. 31; xx. 6. (See WISE MEN.) MALACHI, the last of the prophets of the Old Testament. He lived about four hundred years before Christ, and his prophecy contains the most glowing representations... | |
 | 1827 - 318 pages
...and our employments be " HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD." Malachi, the last of the Olfl Testament prophets, lived some time after the rebuilding of the temple and city, probably late in the times of Ezra and Nehemiah, when zeal and piety were much decayed, worship corrupted, and... | |
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Testament ; he lived some time after the rebuilding of the temple and city, probably about the latter end of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah. 