Zechariah 6:1
AND LOOKED. Thus is the eighth vision TWO MOUNTAINS. Compare Zechariah 1:8 and Zechariah 4:7. BRASS. copper or bronze. Compare Deuteronomy 8:9... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LOOKED. Thus is the eighth vision TWO MOUNTAINS. Compare Zechariah 1:8 and Zechariah 4:7. BRASS. copper or bronze. Compare Deuteronomy 8:9... [ Continue Reading ]
RED. The colours are not explained by the angel as having any significance. They are not explained in Zechariah 6:5, probably because then already gone forth.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRISLED. speckled, or dappled: i.e. like hail. Compare Genesis 31:10; Genesis 31:12. Grisled (now spelled grizzled) is from the French gris. iron-grey. BAY. strong. Hebrew. _amuzzim_. Occurs only here, and Zechariah 6:7. The feminine noun "strength" only in Zechariah 12:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGEL. See note of Zechariah 1:9. MY LORD. Hebrew. _'adon._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE, &c. This is the angel's interpretation, and needs no further explanation. It is for our faith; not for our reason, THE FOUR SPIRITS: or, the four angels. Compare Revelation 7:1; Revelation 9:14; Revelation 9:15. They thus have to do with the time of the end. Their ministry is earthward,... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THEN: or, to the west of thorn.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. A. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), reads "they".... [ Continue Reading ]
CRIED. UPON. Are almost obsolete idiom. To "cry upon" meant to call to, _or appeal_ to, and is still used in this sense in Scotland. It comes to us through the Genevan Bible (1560), from the Great Bible (1539), and Coverdale (1534). It is the sense of the Hebrew _z. ak_ here. See Judges 4:10; 3 John... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAPTIVITY: or exile, being. deputation. Hebrew. _golah._ The special word for the Jews captive in Babylonia (2 Kings 24:15; 2 Kings 24:16; Ezra 1:11; Ezra 2:1, &c. Nehemiah 7:6; Esther 2:6; Jeremiah 28:6; Ezekiel 1:1, &c.) Put here by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the returned... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TAKE, &c. This is another verse, noted in the _Massorah_ (App-30) as being one _of_ twenty-six verses each of which contains all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Compare Zephaniah 3:8, CROWNS. Hebrew pl, referring to the several circlets forming one composite crown. Compare Zechariah 6:14 w... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING. Some codices, with the Septuagint and Syriac, omit this verb but in that case the Ellipsis (App-6), must be supplied in italics. See note on Psalms 109:5. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Zechariah 1:3. MAN... BRANCH. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14. See the Structure and note on the four Gospels as.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN. Yea. Omitted in some codices; in which case, note the Figure of speech Anadiplosis (App-6). Note the emphatic pronouns (= He, even He, and none other), pointing to the Messiah, and typical character of the whole proceeding, viz. exiles bringing their gifts to restore Jehovah's house. Their cro... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR. MEMORIAL. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:14, the same word). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY. SHALL COME: i.e. those future builders, of whom these were. type. Compare Isaiah 60:10. AND THIS, &C.. And it shall come to pass: i.e. the promise and prophecy in the former part of this verse. IF YE WILL, &C. This condition was not fulfilled; for the command to "repent" (the one condition of... [ Continue Reading ]