teaching of Zechariah seems to be directed against the continued observance of these fasts in the literal sense. He recalls to the memory of the restored exiles Jehovah's true requirement. "Let them drop their fasts, and practise the virtues the neglect of which had made their fasts a necessity” (G. A. Smith, The Book of the Twelve Prophets, vol. ii. p. 321).

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