Zechariah 4:1
ANGEL. See note on Zechariah 1:9. MAN. Heb, _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGEL. See note on Zechariah 1:9. MAN. Heb, _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SEEST THOU? The fifth vision. I SAID. Heb, text reads "he". Some codices, with four early printed editions, are without the Hebrew margin, "I" BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. CANDLESTICK. a single seven-branched lampstand, as in the Tabernacle and in the second Temple (1 Macc.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LORD. Hebrew 'adon. See App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MIGHT. might [of man]. NOR. and not. POWER. power [of flesh]. BUT BY, &c. i.e. as in the lampstand the oil flowed silently, without help from man, SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_ App-9. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Zechariah 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
O GREAT MOUNTAIN? Add, by supplying the Ellip sis (App-6), "[that standest in the way of Zerubbebel?]... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HANDS, &c. Here is the explanation _of_ the vision. THOU SHALT KNOW. Some codices, with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "ye shall know".... [ Continue Reading ]
PLUMMET. Hebrew stone of tin. tin weight used as. plummet, WITH THOSE SEVEN. these seven [lamps which thou seest these [are] the eyes", &c.; as in Zechariah 3:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
EMPTY THE GOLDEN OIL OUT OF THEMSELVES. empty out of themselves [and fill] the golden [bowls],... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TWO ANOINTED ONES. Heb, the two sons _of_ oil; looking forward again to the future, to "the two witnesses" _of_ Revelation 11:3. THE LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH. The Hebrew _adon_ App-4., is here specially associated with Messiah's dominion _in the_ earth. Compare Zechariah 6:5; Zechariah 14:9; Josh... [ Continue Reading ]