" Ye weep, returned Akiba, c< from the very reason which causes my heart to be glad. Is it not written, (And testify to me, ye faithful witnesses, Uriah, the priest, and Zachariah, the son of Berachiahu? > Now what hath Uriah to do with Zachariah? Uriah lived during the existence of the first Temple, and Zachariah during the second. Know ye not that the prophecy of Uriah is compared to the prophecy of Zachariah.
From Uriah's prophecy we find, ( Therefore for your sake Zion will be plowed as is a field, and Jerusalem will be a desolation, and the mount of Zion shall be as a forest; } and in Zachariah we find, ( They will sit, the old men and women, in the streets of Jerusalem. Before the prophecy of Uriah was accomplished I might have doubted the truth of Zachariah' s comforting words; but now that one has been accomplished, I feel assured that the promises to Zachariah will also come to pass, therefore am I glad.8