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quite so great an effect upon Western

European peoples. It was from this

abounding vigor that there issued the

missionary enterprise which during the

nineteenth century so augmented the

numerical strength and the influence of

Christianity.”—Kenneth Scott Latourette, A

History of the Expansion of Christianity, Vol.

IV, The Great Century A.D. 1800 - A.D. 1914

(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), pp. 2-

4.

Pages 327, 329. Prophetic Dates.—According

to Jewish reckoning the fifth month (Ab) of

the seventh year of Artaxerxes’ reign was

from July 23 to August 21, 457 B.C. after

Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem in the autumn of

the year, the decree of the king went into

effect. For the certainty of the date 457 B.C.

being the seventh year of Artaxerxes, see S. H.