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4 unusual facts about Lives of the Prophets


Lives of the Prophets

Isaiah: said to be of Jerusalem, suffered martyrdom by being sawn in two by Manasseh (in agreement with the Martyrdom of Isaiah), buried near a place usually identified by scholars as the Pool of Siloam.

When he was born a calf of gold screamed so loudly it was heard in Jerusalem.

After his death, the priests of the Temple could no more, as before, see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the Debir.

Haggai: said to come in Jerusalem from Babylonia when he was young, and he saw the reconstruction of the Temple.



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