ZEPHANIAH
Dies Iræ, Dies Illa!—ZEPH. i. 15.
“His book is the first tinging of prophecy with apocalypse: that is the moment which it supplies in the history of Israel’s religion.”
CHAPTER II
THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
The Book of Zephaniah is one of the most difficult in the prophetic canon. The title is very generally accepted; the period from which chap. i. dates is recognised by practically all critics to be the reign of Josiah, or at least the last third of the seventh century. But after that doubts start, and we find present nearly every other problem of introduction.