. The training of the Chosen people. nalexistence in its ancient seat was the rebuilding of thetemple. Scholars differ as to whether the initiation of thisenterprise was due to a revival of religious interestand of national feeling among the descendants of the people who had beenleft in the land at thetime of the Babyloniancaptivity, or to the zealof the contingent ofBabylonian Hebrewswho had returned toJerusalem under theauthorization of theedict of Cyrus. Pre-sumably there is truthin both representa-tions. Haggai prob-Head of Haggai. ably was a native of From the Copley Print of Sargents Fri
. The training of the Chosen people. nalexistence in its ancient seat was the rebuilding of thetemple. Scholars differ as to whether the initiation of thisenterprise was due to a revival of religious interestand of national feeling among the descendants of the people who had beenleft in the land at thetime of the Babyloniancaptivity, or to the zealof the contingent ofBabylonian Hebrewswho had returned toJerusalem under theauthorization of theedict of Cyrus. Pre-sumably there is truthin both representa-tions. Haggai prob-Head of Haggai. ably was a native of From the Copley Print of Sargents Frieze Jerusalem, who hadof the Prophets, Boston Public Li- A^pJ +-u„ ■ (Copyright, 1898, by Curtis and Cam- SnareO tne lOlTUneS eron-) of the people that had remained in Judah; while Zechariah was a native ofBabylon, whose prophecies link on to those of Hag-gai, and supplement them. The revival among thePalestinian Hebrews, and the zeal of their Babylonianbrethren co-operated to initiate this national Chapter 46. Conscientious Devotion Rewarded 173 There are three phases of the progress of this en-terprise which deserve special consideration. Onewas the refusal on the part of the Jews at Jerusalemof the offer of Samaritan help (Ezra 4:1-3). This mayeasily be represented as churlish bigotry on the partof the Hebrews. In modern phrase it might be saidthat Samaritan resources, even if tainted, in theopinion of pious Hebrews, would go just as far assimilar resources coming from Palestinian or Baby-lonian Jews in quarrying stones or in felling lumberfor the temple. If the Hebrews were so zealous aboutthe good work of building the house of Jehovah, wasit not the dictate of simple common-sense to acceptaid from any source, and not to be over-zealous inscrutinizing the character of the givers? The princi-ple upon which the builders of the temple acted, how-ever, is sufficiently clear. They saw that the accept-ance of this aid meant the admission of the
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