Excerpt from The Two Sons of Oil: Or, the Faithful Witness for Magistracy and Ministry Upon a Scriptural Basis Tats chapter 18 replete with abundant comfort to the returning captives. In their embarrassing circumstances, they stood in great need of conso lation. They were disposed to consider their situation as helpless and deplorable; and doubted much, whether the temple they' were about to erect, would ever acquire the respectability of the former one, or their city abound with its usual population. They could scarcely believe, that, The glory of this latter house would be greater than of Hag. Ii. 9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.