Said he to them, "The likeness of his face..." An angel in his likeness came during battle to place victory before him.

The Temple where we pray for you etc." The meaning is that the Cutheans libeled the Judeans claiming that they rebelled against the king by working to build the Temple, just as the work was stopped earlier during the rule of the Persian empire, as described in the book of Nehemia. Therefore the Judeans came to argue that it was not so, rather the opposite was true. they were praying for the welfare of his kingdom, as Solomon stated in his prayer, "And also for the Gentile et al."...