With a bowl — Or basin. His seven lamps — The temple candlestick had just so many. And seven pipes — So each of the lamps had a pipe reaching from it to the bowl. On the top — These lamps were so set, as to stand somewhat higher than the body of the candlestick.... [ Continue Reading ]
Two olive — trees by it — All which is an emblem of the church, made of pure gold; to be a light in the world; to shine as lamps that continually burn, maintained with pure oil, distilled from the olive — trees, not pressed out by man, but continually, abundantly, and freely flowing from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
This word — Is particularly designed to him, and in an emblem prefigures what a church it is, how precious, how full of light, how maintained by God himself. Power — Courage and valour.... [ Continue Reading ]
O great mountain — All opposers put together. Become a plain — Thou shalt sink into nothing. The head stone — Shall assist at the laying of the finishing stone, as he assisted when the foundation stone was laid. Grace, grace — Wishing all prosperity, and a long continuance of it, to the temple and t... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — Zerubbabel and all the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
For who hath despised — In the work of God, the day of small things is not to be despised. God often chuses weak instruments, to bring about mighty things: and tho' the beginnings be small, he can make the latter end greatly to increase. For — Tho' they undervalued the meanness of the second temple,... [ Continue Reading ]
I answered — l went on to discourse. Unto him — The angel. What be these — Two principal branches, one in each tree, fuller of berries, and hanging over the golden pipes. Through the pipes — These were fastened to the bowl, on each side one, with a hole through the sides of the bowl, to let the oil... [ Continue Reading ]
The two anointed ones — Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Son was to be sent by the Father, and so was the Holy Ghost. And they stand by him, ready to go.... [ Continue Reading ]