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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Eusebius of Caesarea
AD 339
And this was nothing wonderful for God to do, who, in the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, when the Scriptures had been destroyed, and the Jews had returned to their own country after seventy years, afterwards, in the time of Artaxerxes, king of the Persians, inspired Ezra the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to relate all the words of the former prophets, and to restore to the people the legislation of Moses. [quoting Irenaeus, Church History 5.8.15]
