Contents: Vision of the flying roll and the ephah.
Characters: God, Zechariah, angel.
Conclusion: God's holy law reveals the righteous wrath of God against those who by swearing, affront God's majesty and who by stealing, set aside their neighbor's rights.
Key Word: Curse, Zechariah 5:3.
CHAPTER V _The vision of the large flying roll, with the angel's_ _explanation_, 1-4. _The vision of the ephah, and of the woman sitting on it, with_ _the signification_, 5-11. NOTES ON CHAP. V...
Hitherto all had been bright, full of the largeness of the gifts of God; of God’s favor to His people ; the removal of their enemies ; the restoration and expansion and security of God’s people and Ch...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The sixth vision (Zechariah 5:1) _ 2. The seventh vision (Zechariah 5:5) Zechariah 5:1. The three remaining night visions are of a different character. The first visions the prophet h...
A FLYING, _I.E._ UBIQUITOUS ROLL CONTAINING AN EFFECTUAL CURSE AGAINST THIEVES AND PERJURERS. In ZECHARIAH 5:3_ b_ RV does violence to the Heb. Wellhausen with a slight emendation reads: for everyone...
LOOKED. This is the sixth vision. See the Structure on p. 1281. ROLL. scroll. Hence our word "volume". Compare Ezekiel 2:9. Zec 3:11....
_I turned, and lift up mine eyes, and looked_ Rather, I LIFTED UP MINE EYES AGAIN AND SAW _a flying roll_. Its flight signified the swift coming of punishment; its flying from heaven that the sentence...
A FLYING ROLL— See Ezekiel 2:9. Revelation 10:10. This _flying roll_ inclosed an account of the sins and punishments of the people, and is described as flying, to denote the swiftness of God's judgmen...
CHAPTER XXXII A VISION OF A FLYING SCROLL Zechariah 5:1-4 RV. Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a fly...
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. The fraudulent and prejuring transgressors of the law shall be extirpated from Judea. BEHOLD, A FLYING ROLL - of papyr...
A FLYING ROLL] Rolls were of skin or parchment, on which all writing was inscribed. The document was rolled up much in the same way as a wall-map is rolled now. This roll was evidently unfolded, flyin...
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH VISIONS 1-4. A flying roll inscribed with curses comes down upon the earth. The previous visions had promised many blessings to the people; and the sixth and seventh teach that...
THEN I TURNED... EYES. — Better, _And I again lifted up my eyes._ (Comp. Zechariah 4:1.) FLYING ROLL. — A scroll floating in the air. The form of the vision seems to be suggested by Ezekiel 2:9. LXX....
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...
וָ אָשׁ֕וּב וָ אֶשָּׂ֥א עֵינַ֖י וָֽ אֶרְאֶ֑ה
THE SIXTH VISION: THE WINGED VOLUME Zechariah 5:1 The religious and political obstacles being now removed from the future of Israel, Zechariah in the next two Visions beholds the land purged of its...
THE VISIONS OF ZECHARIAH Zechariah 1:7; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 4:1;...
THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL Zechariah 5:1-11 This huge sheet of parchment, 30 by 15 feet, was covered with the solemn curses of the Law, on one side against the thief and on the other against false...
The vision of the flying roll represents the principle of law as it will be administered by Israel when she fulfils the true ideal. It must be considered as a sequence following the realization of tho...
Eyes of the soul. (Menochius) --- Volume. That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient books, which, from begin rolled up, were called volumes. (Challoner) --- Such are still used in the...
CONTENTS The Lord is still instructing the Prophet by vision. In this Chapter we have the sad judgment threatened to thieves and swearers, under the image of a flying roll. And also by a talent of le...
"Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. (2) And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and t...
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...
The angel shows in this chapter, that whatever evils the Jews had suffered, proceeded from the righteous judgment Of God; and then he adds a consolation — that the Lord would at length alleviate or pu...
Chapter 5 shews us the other side of the picture, that is to say, the judgment of the wicked in Israel in the last days. The prophet sees an immense roll filled with a curse for the wicked, for those...
THEN I TURNED, AND LIFT UP MINE EYES, AND LOOKED,.... The prophet turned himself from looking upon the candlestick and olive branches, having had a full and clear understanding of them, and looked ano...
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. Ver. 1. _Then I turned me, and lifted up mine eyes_] _i.e._ I prepared me to the receiving of a new vision; nothing so co...
_Then I turned and lifted up_ Or, _again I lifted up, mine eyes_ For the verb שׁוב, _to return_, is often used adverbially; _and behold a flying roll_ That is, _a roll of a book_, as the expression is...
Then I turned, after an interval of some time, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A FLYING ROLL, a book-scroll, or parchment, of great size, or consisting of many large leaves fastened tog...
THE VISION OF THE FLYING ROLL...
THE SIXTH VISION - A FLYING SCROLL (vv. 1-4) The five previous visions have beautifully emphasized the grace of God in His restoring great blessing to Israel after years of sorrow and desolation. Th...
1-4 The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are rolls, in which God has written the great things of his law and gospel; they are flying rolls. God's word runs very swiftly, Psalms 147:15. This fl...
ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 5 By the flying roll is showed the curse of thieves and of false swearers, MALACHI 5:1. By a woman in an ephah, pressed under a weight, and carried away to Shinar, is denoted wickedn...
Zechariah 5:1 turned H7725 (H8799) raised H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 saw H7200 (H8799) flying H5774 ...
THE SIXTH VISION. THE FLYING SCROLL - GOD'S MORAL DEMANDS GO FORTH TO BRING JUDGMENT (ZECHARIAH 5:1). Together with the establishment of the High Priesthood and the building of the Temple, it is neces...
FLYING ROLL A "roll," in Scripture symbolism, means the written word whether of God or man (Ezekiel 6:2); (Jeremiah 36:2); (Jeremiah 36:4); ...
Zechariah 5:2. _What seest thou? I see a flying roll._ Hebrews _meghilla,_ a parchment, a terrific scroll, twenty cubits in length, and ten in breadth, an oblong in measure like the courts of the temp...
_And I turned. .. and looked, and behold a flying roll _ THE FLYING ROLL The object of this discourse is to present to you the Scriptures as a phenomenon of the world around us. Consider them as an...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 5:1 The sixth vision is of a gigantic SCROLL, 30 by 15 feet (9 by 4.5 m), flying in midair. The scroll is a covenant document, like the tablets Moses received from the Lord...
CRITICAL NOTES.] FLYING ROLL] Vision sixth. ZECHARIAH 5:2.] Ten yards long and five yards broad. The size intended to indicate the number of curses contained; and FLYING] The velocity of judgments up...
EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 5:1 § 8. _The sixth vision: the flying roll._ ZECHARIAH 5:1 THEN I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES; _i.e. _I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw the vision that follows. The pro...
So then I turned, and I lifted up my eyes, and I beheld a flying roll (Zechariah 5:1). Now this must have been a weird looking sight, a flying saucer kind of a thing. And he said unto me, What do you...
Ezekiel 2:10; Ezekiel 2:9; Isaiah 8:1; Revelation 10:2; Revelation 10
A flying roll — A volume, or book spread out at large, flying in the air, swiftly....