ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 4 By the golden candlestick is foreshowed the good success of Zerubbabel's foundation, MALACHI 4:1; by the two olive trees the two anointed ones, MALACHI 4:11. THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME; Christ, who for some time had left Zechariah, and bestowed some time on new dressing, and c... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SEEST THOU? what dost thou discern, of that thou didst before, half asleep half awake, see, but didst not observe? I HAVE LOOKED; since awakened and roused, I have very diligently viewed and observed, and I see. A CANDLESTICK: by God's appointment there was a candlestick to be made, as an utens... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO OLIVE TREES; some say branches; better trees, which, well rooted, will continue, and perpetually supply the bowls, and that will supply the lamps. ONE; not more, or fewer than two. UPON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOWL, and the other upon the left side thereof; so placed that the candlestick stood bet... [ Continue Reading ]
SO, after that I had seen and discerned, I ANSWERED: see MALACHI 3:4. SPAKE TO THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME: see MALACHI 1:19, MALACHI 2:3. WHAT ARE THESE? see MALACHI 1:9. SO, after that I had seen and discerned, I ANSWERED: see MALACHI 3:4. SPAKE TO THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME: see MALACHI 1:19... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN; when the prophet had inquired into the meaning of these emblems. THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME: see MALACHI 1:19. KNOWEST THOU NOT? it is not a question either to upbraid the prophet as an ignoramus, Christ doth not reproach his for not knowing deep and dark mysteries at first sight of them; n... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN; so soon as Zechariah had owned his nescience. HE; Christ. THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO ZERUBBABEL; or, This word of the Lord is to Zerubbabel, it is particularly designed to him, and in an emblem prefigureth what a church, how precious as gold, how full of light; how framed, how maintaine... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ART THOU, O GREAT MOUNTAIN? the angel having resolved the question about building the temple, either himself doth deride all the power of opposers, or the prophet doth triumph over it, Who art thou? Sanballat and confederates, or Satan, or Babylon, or all put together, what are you all, compared... [ Continue Reading ]
Either at another time, or else at the same time, was added what now Zechariah declares.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HANDS; perhaps (as is customary) he did lay the first stone with his own hands; or rather, his direction, and command, and under his conduct. HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION, in the second year of Cyrus, perhaps forty years ago, likelier seventeen, but be those years more or less, HE SHALL FINISH IT: t... [ Continue Reading ]
And now for those that despised small beginnings; who they are is well known, and to them I say, and promise what they expected not. DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS; of which HAGGAI 2:3. FOR, or BUT, notwithstanding they so much undervalued the meanness of the second temple, yet when finished they... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse the prophet proposeth a question to which no answer is given, but he doth immediately proceed to ask one more question, though somewhat, yet not much, different from the former, and in the answer of this latter question the prophet acquiesceth. The explication of this verse you have MA... [ Continue Reading ]
I ANSWERED; I went on to discourse, which is the signification of the Hebrew phrase here used. AGAIN, Heb. _a second time. Said unto him_, the angel that talked with the prophet. WHAT BE THESE TWO OLIVE BRANCHES? two principal branches, one in each tree, fuller of berries, higher than the rest, and... [ Continue Reading ]
See MALACHI 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not Enoch and Elias, nor the two witnesses, nor Peter and Paul, nor the two churches of Jew and Gentile; nor principally Zerubbabel and Joshua, though perhaps the exposition may glance upon them, and the two orders, magistracy and ministry, in them; as these are types of Christ in his two offices. K... [ Continue Reading ]