Zechariah 2:1
With a line — Ready and prepared to lay out the platform of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
With a line — Ready and prepared to lay out the platform of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
To measure — To take the exact dimensions of it, that it may answer God's promise, and be capable to receive its inhabitants. Jerusalem — The city which was to be built hereafter.... [ Continue Reading ]
The angel — Christ, who had so long talked with Zechariah. Went forth — From the midst of the myrtle — trees.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said — Christ to that angel who came to meet him. Run — Hasten and tell Zechariah. As towns — The suburbs of it shall be as towns unwalled, for extent and for safety.... [ Continue Reading ]
The glory — My presence and favour shall make her glorious.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ho, ho — Ye sleepy Jews. Come forth — Come out from your prisons. Flee — Make all the haste you can. From the land — Babylon, which lay north of Canaan. For I have spread you abroad — As I executed my threats in scattering you, so I will perform my promise, and gather you.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deliver thyself — Accept of thy deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]
After the glory — After that he is become your glory, I am to avenge you of your enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon them — Against the nation that doth violence to my people. Unto their servants — Unto the Jews, who were first spoiled by, and then made servants to them. Hath sent me — To inform them of my father's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
I come — To execute judgments on thine adversaries, and to compleat thy deliverance and salvation. I will dwell — This was fulfilled in part to the Jews, but more fully to the gospel church.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall be joined — Shall worship the God of Israel. In that day — When Christ shall come in the flesh, and take down the partition wall. Sent me — The Messiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall inherit — Claim, recover, possess, and delight in, as a man doth in his paternal inheritance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Be silent — Reverence and adore God, and expect the accomplishment of his word. All flesh — Both Jew and Gentile. He is raised up — God is on this work already, and he will not sit down again, 'till he has accomplished his whole work.... [ Continue Reading ]