The Age of Ezra and Nehemiah

The chronicles, we saw, has to do primarily with the true Israel. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah deal with this same element as liberated to a degree from the typical-symbolical mold in which it was made to ap­pear especially in the golden age of its history. One of the reasons for the organization of the Israelitish people into a theocratic state was to exhibit as the city of God the eternal principles of truth and justice upon which the throne of Jehovah reposes. There was the theocratic...