They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
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Bede
AD 735
And Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the rest of the leading men of the fathers of Israel said to them: 'It is not for you and for us that we should build a house to our God, but we alone will build to the Lord our God'. It is not for heretics to build the house of the Lord, which is the Church, from which they are proved to be strangers. Rather, it is only for those who, adhering to Christ the true king and priest, deserve to be called 'leading men of the fathers' because of their devout care towards those who yearn 'to see God', which is the meaning of the word 'Israel'.
