_BY THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK IS FORESHEWED THE GOOD SUCCESS OF ZERUBBABEL'S FOUNDATION: BY THE TWO OLIVE-TREES THE TWO ANOINTED ONES._ _Before Christ 519._ IN this chapter the prophet is called upon to contemplate a fifth vision, of the most sublime and mysterious import. He sees a candlestick of pu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WAKED ME— _And roused me._ It should seem as if the prophet was plunged into a deep reverie, musing on what he had already seen, when he was roused again by the angel to give his attention to what follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE WORD, &C.— See the note on chap. Zechariah 3:8. It appears as if Zerubbabel had been misrepresented at the Persian court; and hoping that he or his Son might prove the deliverer, of whom the prophets wrote, the apprehension of being recalled before he had finished the temple, filled him... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL BRING FORTH— If in this prophesy not only the completion of the material temple is promised, but also, as we have supposed, the erection of a spiritual building, it is obvious, that in this secondary sense by _the head_ or _chief corner-stone_ must be understood that person who is empha... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO HATH DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS— By _the day of small things,_ I suppose to be meant the time when the resources of the Jewish nation appeared in the eyes of many, even well-wishers, so small and inadequate to the building of the temple, against a powerful opposition, that they despaired o... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT BE THESE TWO OLIVE-BRANCHES, &C.— This passage may be rendered, _What are the two orderers of the olive-trees, which through two golden spouts drain off the gold from them?_ I am inclined to suppose that by הזיתים שׁבלי s_hibbalei hazzeithim,_ were meant two beings, probably in human shape, who... [ Continue Reading ]