Zechariah 6:8

cried he upon me The word is used of a royal proclamation cried aloud through the city. Jonah 3:7. Here the loud call of the Angel was probably intended to rouse the prophet's attention to what was the chief point of the vision.

quieted my spirit Lit. have caused my spirit to rest, which was perturbed before with sore displeasure against my enemies (Zechariah 1:15), but is now at rest because the righteous retribution is completed. Others take "spirit" to be equivalent here, as it is elsewhere (Ecclesiastes 10:4; Proverbs 29:11, in which latter place, as here, the LXX have θυμός), to anger. "Have made my anger to rest on, i.e. have carried it thither and deposited it there, made it to rest upon them as its abode, as St John says of the unbelieving, -the wrath of God abideth on him." " Pusey. See Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 16:42.

Symbolical Action. Crowning of the High-priest, Zechariah 6:9-15. In another of the "divers manners" (πολυτρόπως, Hebrews 1:1), which He was pleased to adopt, Almighty God now speaks by the prophet. The visions of the night give place to a literal transaction by day, which, however, repeats and confirms their message. Zechariah is directed to go to the house of Josiah in Jerusalem, and to take from certain Jews who were lodging there gold and silver, a portion of the offerings to the House of God, which they had brought from their brethren still in exile, Zechariah 6:9-10. Of this gold and silver he is to make a crown, and put it on the head of Joshua the High-priest, Zechariah 6:11. The significant action is to be accompanied by a prediction in the name of Jehovah, that in due time there shall "grow up the Branch," who shall be the true builder of the temple of the Lord, who shall be both King and Priest, and in the exercise of those two offices the author and dispenser of peace, Zechariah 6:12-13. Meanwhile, in gracious remembrance both of those who have brought the offerings and of him who has received them into his house, the crown which has been placed on the High-priest's head is to be hung up in the Temple at Jerusalem, Zechariah 6:14, where it will also be a silent prophecy of the day when not only Jewish exiles, but Gentiles also who are now "far off," shall be builders in the spiritual temple. That event, when it comes to pass, will prove the divine mission of the prophet; but obedience on the part of those who hear the prophecy is the condition of their sharing in the blessings of its fulfilment, Zechariah 6:15.