George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Zechariah 3:3
Garments. Negligences and sins. (Challoner) --- Jesus had neglected to urge the building of the temple, or to repress unlawful marriages, 1 Esdras viii. (Worthington)
Garments. Negligences and sins. (Challoner) --- Jesus had neglected to urge the building of the temple, or to repress unlawful marriages, 1 Esdras viii. (Worthington)
Verse Zechariah 3:3. _JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS_] The Jewish people were in a most forlorn, destitute, and to all human appearance despicable, condition; and besides all, they were sinfu...
NOW JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS - Such, it is expressed, was his habitual condition; he was one so clothed. The “filthy garment,” as defilement generally, is, in Scripture, the symbol of s...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The fourth night vision (Zechariah 3:1) _ 2. The message of the vision (Zechariah 3:6) Zechariah 3:1. The fourth vision is like the first and second, closely connected with the forego...
THE TRIAL OF JOSHUA. Several corrections are necessary in this paragraph, some of which are confirmed by the LXX. In Zechariah 3:2 read, And the angel of the Lord said. In Zechariah 3:4 f. read with L...
WAS. had come to be. Compare Genesis 1:2. FILTHY.. symbol of the defiling nature of sin. Compare Proverbs 30:12.Isaiah 4:4, &c....
_filthy garments_ There is no allusion to the Roman custom of accused persons wearing sordid attire at their trials (_reus sordidatus_, Liv. ii. 54, vi. 20). Nor is there any ground for the idea that...
DISCOURSE: 1242 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWISH CHURCH PREDICTED Zechariah 3:1. And he shewed me Joshua the high-priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to res...
CHAPTER XXX A VISION OF THE HIGH PRIEST ZECHARIAH, CHAPTER Zechariah 3:1-10 RV. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to...
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. NOW JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS - symbol of sin (; ; ); proving that it is not on the ground of His people's rig...
THE FOURTH VISION Joshua, better known under the later form Jeshua (Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 12:7; Nehemiah 12:10, etc.), was the son of Jehozadak, a
FILTHY GARMENTS] symbolical of sin and unfitness for the pure service of God. Probably the sin here signified was the nation's past idolatry and neglect of the worship of God. 4. God (and He alone ca...
III. FOURTH VISION. — JOSHUA BEFORE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. (1-7) The accusation against Joshua was not that of neglecting the building of the Temple (for the re-building had been resumed five months b...
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS. Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic labours and the incidents recorded in Zechariah 1:7 to...
FILTHY GARMENTS. — Such as would render him unfit to appear before God as priest. They are a symbol of the guilt and defilement of sin. (Isaiah 64:5.) AND STOOD BEFORE. — See Note on Zechariah 3:1....
וִ יהֹושֻׁ֕עַ הָיָ֥ה לָבֻ֖שׁ בְּגָדִ֣ים צֹואִ֑ים...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
PURIFIED FOR GOD'S SERVICE Zechariah 3:1-10 The regulation for the maintenance of the priesthood had fallen into disuse, and they had neither robes, vessels, nor proper provision of offerings. Proba...
As the first three visions dealt principally with the material side of Israel's tribulation and restoration, the remaining five dealt pre-eminently with her moral and spiritual influence. In vision th...
Now Joshua was clothed with (e) filthy garments, and stood before the angel. (e) With regard to the glorious garments and precious stones that the priests wore before the captivity: and by this conte...
"Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel." This is a most striking verse. It was the command, under the Levitical dispensation, that the high priests should appear befo...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
Zechariah adds here another thing, — that Joshua had on mean garments, but that new garments were given him by the angel’s command. And by this he means, that though the priesthood had been for a time...
But in order that Jerusalem (the centre of God's dealings in Israel) should be thus re-established in blessing, something more than the mere exercise of God's power was necessary. The people were guil...
NOW JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS,.... Having fallen into sin. The Jewish writers z interpret this of the sin of his children in marrying strange wives, Ezra 10:18 or he had married one hims...
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. Ver. 3. _Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments_] The tattered rags of the old Adam, the nasty filthiness and superfluity...
_And the Lord said_, &c. The Logos, or Son of God, said unto Satan; _The Lord_ Namely, God the Father; _rebuke thee_ And not suffer thy mischievous imagination against Jerusalem and the temple to pros...
THE VISION OF THE HIGH PRIEST. The Lord had just referred to the glorification of His people. He now proceeds to show how this would take place....
Now, Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, typical of the sinfulness which was still found in the Lord's people, Isaiah 64:5, AND STOOD BEFORE THE ANGEL, it was thus that he had presented himself i...
THE FOURTH VISION - GRACE TO THE REPRESENTATIVE HIGH PRIEST OVERCOMING SATAN'S OPPOSITION (vv. 1-5) In verse 1 the angel who talked with Zechariah showed him Joshua the high priest standing before t...
1-5 The angel showed Joshua, the high priest, to Zechariah, in a vision. Guilt and corruption are great discouragements when we stand before God. By the guilt of the sins committed by us, we are liab...
At the time Zechariah saw this vision he saw also in what a mean, dirty, and tattered garb he was who represented the high priest. It was the hieroglyphic of Joshua, not Joshua himself. FILTHY GARMENT...
Zechariah 3:3 Joshua H3091 clothed H3847 (H8803) filthy H6674 garments H899 standing H5975 (H8802) before H6440 Ange
THE FOURTH VISION. THE HEAVENLY COURT - THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD IS RESTORED. GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE PERSON OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE HIGH PRIEST ARE FITTED FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF HIS PURPOSES (ZECHARIAH 3:1...
CLOTHED See (Isaiah 64:6). Contrast (Philippians 3:1). ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
CONTENTS: Visions of Zechariah. Joshua and Satan before the angel of the Lord. Jehovah's servant, The Branch. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Joshua, Satan, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: By the guilt of our sins w...
Zechariah 3:1. _Joshua the highpriest standing before the angel of the Lord,_ to make intercession for the restoration of Israel. This was a figure of Jesus, whose name he bore. _And Satan,_ the adver...
_And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing _ JOSHUA THE PRIEST We learn from the Book of Ezra (Ezra 2:36) that among the exiles who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon, were Joshua or Jeshu...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 3:3 Satan has a very strong case. Joshua is CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS soiled with excrement, which defiles him. This poses a serious problem for the people, since it was...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HE] The interpreting angel. STANDING] As before a judge (Numbers 35:12; Deuteronomy 19:17; 1 Kings 3:16). A judicial transaction represented, say some. But the high priest is describe...
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 3:1 _§ 6. The fourth vision: Joshua the high priest before the angel._ ZECHARIAH 3:1 HE SHOWED ME. The Septuagint and Vulgate give, "The Lord showed me." Some suppose that it w...
Now the fifth vision, the Lord showed him Joshua. Now Joshua was the high priest who along with Zerrubbel, a priest who was in charge of the rebuilding of the temple. Stood side by side with Zerrubbel...
2 Chronicles 30:18; Daniel 9:18; Ezra 9:15; Isaiah 64:6; Matthew
A VISION OF SATAN'S FURY Zechariah 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our message presents the vision of Zechariah as he sees Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing...
With filthy garments — The emblem of a poor or sinful state. The angel — Christ....