CRITICAL NOTES.] In this chapter we have a contrast to the former. It was necessary to promise blessings, to encourage, and to warn, lest many should presume by vain confidence in the promises. We have the destruction of the second temple and of the Jewish polity for the rejection of Christ. LEBANON... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES. Zechariah 11:4.] The cause of the ruin. FEED] The prophet to act the part of a good shepherd. FLOCK] Jewish nation. ZECHARIAH 11:5. POSSESSORS] Lit _buyers_, who think they can sell or slay for their own advantage. ZECHARIAH 11:6. I] Divine pity would not be shown to them; they wo... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES. Zechariah 11:7. I] The prophet executed the task committed to him by shepherding a sad (_poor_) flock. TWO STAVES] “to set forth the kind of double salvation bestowed upon the nation through the care of the Good Shepherd” [_Keil_]. BEAUTY] Loveliness or favour (Psalms 27:4; Psalms 9... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES. Zechariah 11:9. Let it] Perish those who are doomed to perish. All kindly control is withdrawn, and the flock is left to the consequences of its fatal rejection of deliverance. The fulfilment in the history of Jerusalem. ZECHARIAH 11:10. BREAK] Symbolic action of taking away the go... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES. Zechariah 11:12. Good] “He served them, not for wages, but in obedience to the Divine will.” Wages, however, were due; the price of a slave offered. ZECHARIAH 11:13.] It was contemptuously rejected. Jehovah regards the wages offered to himself. GOODLY] Noble price, ironical. POTTER... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES. Zechariah 11:15.] Since the Good Shepherd was rejected a very different class would shepherd them. TAKE] again. Instruments] A crook, bag, pipe, and knife, &c. Foolish] Bad shepherd (Psalms 14:1). ZECHARIAH 11:16.] Conduct of this ruler described; not mere neglect, but destroys (cf... [ Continue Reading ]