Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Ezra, the priest of God, restored the law, which had been burned by the Chaldeans in the archives of the temple. For indeed he was full of the same spirit with which the Scriptures had previously been filled. [De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, 2.33]