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PEINCE OF JERUSALEM.
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the reward so justly due you, cause to shine
the triumph of truth. Keceive this order.
forth
The highest reward we can bestow upon you will
not be commensurate with your deserts for having
saved us from this snare of corruption. "We are infi-
nitely indebted, besides the recompense offered, and
in order to attach nearer to our person so precious a
friend as thou art, Zerubbabel, we tender you, this
moment, the office of Grand Master of our House.
Zer.\ Sovereign of Sovereigns, for the favors which
you lavish on me, I have not words to express my
heartfelt gratitude ; but the will of Him who regulates
the destinies of all men, does not permit me to be the
master of my own destiny. I am irrevocably bound
to the fortunes of my people whom I conduct ; and
the accomplishment of the decrees of heaven, rela-
tive to the re-edification of God's holy Temple, will
not allow me to accept what you are so willing to do
(or me this day.
:
DECREE.
Darius, King of Kings, Sovereign of Sovereigns, to
Saraboyan, Grand Master of the Army, and to our
other Grand Officers, and to our people beyond the
river, Greeting
Zerubbabel and the Deputies of the Jews, having
brought their complaints of the troubles with which