Miscellanies 1.21.122 (21.122)
Summary: Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem, blinded Zedekiah, and began the seventy-year captivity; Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, Nahum, Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi prophesied.
Greek text · Stählin 2:76–77
Ἐν δὲ τῷ δωδεκάτῳ ἔτει τῆς Σεδεκίου βασιλείας Ναβουχοδονόσορ πρὸ τῆς Περσῶν ἡγεμονίας ἔτεσιν ἑβδομήκοντα ἐπὶ Φοίνικας καὶ Ἰουδαίους ἐστράτευσεν, ὥς φησι Βήρωσσος ἐν ταῖς Χαλδαϊκαῖς ἱστορίαις. Ἰόβας δὲ περὶ Ἀσσυρίων γράφων ὁμολογεῖ τὴν ἱστορίαν παρὰ Βηρώσσου εἰληφέναι, μαρτυρῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν τἀνδρί. ὁ τοίνυν Ναβουχοδονόσορ τυφλώσας τὸν Σεδεκίαν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἀπάγει καὶ τὸν λαὸν πάντα μετοικίζει (καὶ γίνεται ἡ αἰχμαλωσία ἐπὶ ἔτη ἑβδομήκοντα) πλὴν ὀλίγων, οἳ εἰς Αἴγυπτον κατέφυγον. προφητεύουσι δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ Σεδεκίου ἔτι Ἱερεμίας καὶ Ἀμβακούμ, ἐν δὲ τῷ πέμπτῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι προφητεύει Ἰεζεκιήλ, μεθʼ ὃν Ναοὺμ ὁ προφήτης, ἔπειτα Δανιήλ, πάλιν αὖ μετὰ τοῦτον προφητεύουσιν Ἀγγαῖος καὶ Ζαχαρίας ἐπὶ Δαρείου τοῦ πρώτου ἔτη δύο, μεθʼ ὃν ὁ ἐν τοῖς δώδεκα Ἄγγελος.
English · Claude translation
In the twelfth year of Zedekiah's reign, seventy years before the Persian supremacy, Nebuchadnezzar marched against the Phoenicians and Jews, as Berossus says in his Chaldean History. Juba, writing about the Assyrians, admits that he took his history from Berossus, testifying to the man's truthfulness. Nebuchadnezzar, then, blinded Zedekiah and carried him to Babylon, and deported all the people (and the captivity lasted seventy years), except a few who fled to Egypt. In Zedekiah's time Jeremiah and Habakkuk still prophesied; in the fifth year of his reign Ezekiel prophesied in Babylon; after him Nahum the prophet, then Daniel; and again after him Haggai and Zechariah prophesied in the time of Darius the First, for two years; and after him the Angel among the Twelve.
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- “The Angel among the Twelve” is Malachi (the name means “my angel”). The allusions are 2 Kgs 25:7, Jer 25:11, Ezek 1:2, Hag 1:1, and Zech 1:1.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/122/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/122/).
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