From Malachi to Matthew

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This book is designed to do nothing more than outline the history of J udea in the centuries that elapsed between the prophesying of Malachi and the event that forms the first theme of the New Testament. To trace in some detail the fortunes of the holy race in Babylon also, in Alexandria, in Rome, and in the Dispersion generally, would have been of much interest, but was forbidden bv the conditions of space. An attempt has been made throughout to keep the Jews of Palestine in the foreground, and to restrain whatever deviations eastwards or westwards might fairly be regarded as digressions.