Zechariah 5 - Introduction
V. SIXTH VISION. — THE FLYING SCROLL, THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH, AND THE TWO WOMEN WITH STORKS’ WINGS. This is to be regarded as essentially one vision in three dissolving views (Zechariah 5:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
V. SIXTH VISION. — THE FLYING SCROLL, THE WOMAN IN THE EPHAH, AND THE TWO WOMEN WITH STORKS’ WINGS. This is to be regarded as essentially one vision in three dissolving views (Zechariah 5:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
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., omitting the final _ah_ of the word for “scroll,” render δρέπανον, “sickle.”... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Zechariah 6:15, the Prophet Haggai received the revelation contained in Haggai 2:10. On the four-and-twentieth day of the eleventh mont... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. — The angel-interpreter. (Comp. Zechariah 5:5.) THE LENGTH... AND THE BREADTH... — These were the dimensions of the holy place of the Mosaic Tabernacle, also of the porch of Solomon’s Temple. If, then, we are to consider the measurement of the scroll as symbolical, we may regard it as indicatin... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WHOLE EARTH. — Better, _the whole land:_ viz., of Israel. FOR EVERY ONE... ON THIS SIDE... ON THAT SIDE ACCORDING TO IT — _i.e., according to the curse written on this side and on that side of the scroll._ But the Hebrew will hardly bear this interpretation. Koehler proposes to render, instead o... [ Continue Reading ]
IT. — The curse, as borne on the scroll. BRING FORTH. — As it were, from His treasure-house, where all pre-ordained events are stored up (Deuteronomy 32:34). AND SHALL CONSUME IT. — In Herodotus (Book vi:86) there is an interesting parallel to this verse. A Milesian had deposited with Glaucus a su... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGEL... WENT FORTH. — The first scene of the vision disappears, and with it, apparently, the angel-interpreter, who now “went forth,” _i.e.,_ appeared again (see Note on Zechariah 2:3); so, too, “that goeth forth” means, that emerges from the region of the invisible into that of the visible.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT IS IT_?_ — i.e., What does it symbolise? For, of course, he could see that it was an ephah. THIS IS AN EPHAH... ALL THE EARTH. — Better, _This, the ephah that cometh forth, this, continued he, is their resemblance throughout the whole lands: i.e.,_ this is a symbol of the sinners mentioned abo... [ Continue Reading ]
TALENT. — Better, _disc._ The construction of these verses is rather difficult. They should be taken as the words of the angel-interpreter, and be rendered: _And behold_ (_i.e.,_ and you may see) _a leaden disc being lifted up, and this_ [which you now see on the removal of the disc] _is a woman sit... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD... — Here commences the third scene of the vision. We need not enter into the minute details of the verse, as they are, probably, introduced merely to give greater distinctness to the picture. (Comp. Note on Zechariah 1:8.) The wings of the woman seem, however, to be represented as filled wit... [ Continue Reading ]
LAND OF SHINAR. — Where mankind had first organised a rebellion against God (Genesis 12:2); it was also the land of the Captivity of the Jews (Babylonia). This vision is a circumstantial symbolisation of the promise given in Zechariah 3:9 : “I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day.” While... [ Continue Reading ]