Artaxerxes - Gomates, the Pseudo-Smerdis. He succeeded Cambyses (521 B.C.), and reigned for seven months, when he was deposed and executed …

In the days of Artaxerxes. —This must be Gomates, the Magian priest who impersonated Smerdis, the dead son of Cyrus, and reigned o…

And in the days of Artaxerxes
The same with Ahasuerus, in the preceding verse; and who also is Cambyses, which is hi…

It is an old slander, that the prosperity of the church would be hurtful to kings and princes. Nothing can be more false, for true godliness teache…