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 Verse Zechariah 5:1. _BEHOLD A FLYING ROLL._] This was _twenty cubits long_, and _ten cubits broad_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Zechariah 5:3. _EVERY ONE THAT STEALETH - AND EVERY ONE THAT SWEARETH_] It seems that the roll was written both on the front and back: _stealing_ and _swearing_ are supposed to be two general heads of crimes; the former, comprising sins against men; the latter, sins against God. It is supposed... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Zechariah 5:4. _INTO THE HOUSE OF HIM_] Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public _plunderer_, and a most glaring _idolater_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Zechariah 5:6. _THIS_ IS _AN EPHAH THAT GOETH FORTH._] This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The _woman_ in the _ephah_ is supposed to represent _Judea_, which shall be visited for its sins; the _talent of lead_ on the _ephah_, within which the woman was enclosed, the _wrath... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Zechariah 5:9. _THERE CAME OUT TWO WOMEN_] As the _one woman_ represented the _impiety_ of the Jewish nation; so these _two_ women who were to _carry the ephah_, in which the woman INIQUITY was shut up, under the _weight_ of a _talent of lead_, may mean the desperate UNBELIEF of the Jews in re... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Zechariah 5:11. _TO BUILD IT A HOUSE IN THE LAND OF SHINAR_] The land of _Shinar_ means _Babylon_; and _Babylon_ means _Rome_, in the Apocalypse. The _building the house_ for the woman imprisoned in the ephah may signify, that there should be a _long captivity_ under the _Romans_, as there was... [ Continue Reading ]