Zechariah 5:1
A flying roll — A volume, or book spread out at large, flying in the air, swiftly.... [ Continue Reading ]
A flying roll — A volume, or book spread out at large, flying in the air, swiftly.... [ Continue Reading ]
This — This roll or book containeth the curse, due to sinners. The whole earth — Either the whole land of Judea, or all the world, wherever these sins are found. According to it — According to the threats inscribed thereon. Sweareth — Profanely, or falsely.... [ Continue Reading ]
It shall enter — This curse shall come with commission from me. It shall remain — It shall stick close to them and theirs like Gehazi's leprosy. And the stones — Nothing shall remain, as when both the timber and stones of a house are consumed.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — The angel. An ephah — A measure which held about three bushels. Goeth forth — Out of the temple. Their resemblance — This is an emblem of this people everywhere. Thus there is limited time and measure for them, while they sin, and are filling the ephah with their sins, they will find that the e... [ Continue Reading ]
And behold — Here is another part of this vision. Lifted up — Brought thither to cover it. A talent — A piece of lead of a talent weight, as large as the mouth of the ephah. A woman — A woman, the third in the vision. Perhaps this vision was purposely obscure, least a plain denunciation of the secon... [ Continue Reading ]
This — This woman represents the wickedness of the Jews. He cast it — The angel cast down this woman. On the mouth — And so shut her up, to suffer the punishment of all her sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
There came out — From the same place whence the ephah came. Their wings — They had wings, like the wings of storks, large and strong, and flew before the wind with great swiftness. The judgments came thus flying, and so bore away with them those that were incorrigible.... [ Continue Reading ]
To build — Not in mercy, but in judgment. Of Shinar — Of Babylon whither many of the Jews fled, and others of them were forced by the Romans. Set there — There they shall be confined without hope of release. Her own base — They are settled upon the lees of their own unbelief: their wickedness is est... [ Continue Reading ]