Ezra 6:15 (WEB)
This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Fathers and councils · 2
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Now Darius the Mede built the city in the sixth year of his own reign, and first year of the 66th Olympiad according to the Greeks.” — editor's note: Darius the Mede (Dan. v. 31) succeeded Belshazzar as king in Babylon b.c. 538, the date assigned in Dan. ix. 1 to the prophecy of the 70 years. But “Darius the…
Read the whole comment
John Chrysostom
““Forty and six years,” they said, referring to the latter building, for the former was finished in twenty years’ time. ( Ezra vi. 15.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment