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 that the roll contained the sins and punishments of the Chaldeans.
OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH - primarily land, since the perjured persons, upon whom the curse was to fall Zechariah 5:4, were those who swore falsely by the name of God: and this was in Judah onl...
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...
THE CURSE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28). GOETH FORTH. Compare Zechariah 5:5 _._ Hebrew. _yaza_. to go forth on business, or on an errand. Same word as in...
_earth_ Rather LAND, i.e. the land of Judah. _every one that stealeth_ The breach of one commandment of each table of the law, _every one that stealeth_, and so breaks the eighth commandment in the se...
OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH— _Over the face of the whole land: for, on one hand, every thief shall be purged out according to it; and, on the other hand, every swearer shall be purged out accordi...
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 said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth sh...
5:3 land. (e-19) Or 'earth,' as 1 Samuel 2:8 ....
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...
EARTH] RV 'land,' i.e. Palestine. FOR EVERY ONE THAT STEALETH, etc.] better, perhaps, 'for every thief shall be swept away from hence.' But the expressions are difficult. The exact meaning of the phra...
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...
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...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י זֹ֚את הָֽ אָלָ֔ה הַ
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...
Then said he to me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that (b) stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this (c) side according to it; and every one that (d...
_In like. Protestants, "shall cut off as on that side standing to it." (Haydock)_...
"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 then says, that it was _the curse _which _went forth _(55) _over the face of the whole land_. We must remember what I have just said, that God’s judgment is here set forth before the Jews, t...
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 SAID HE UNTO ME, THIS [IS] THE CURSE,.... So the law of Moses is called, because it has curses written in it, Deuteronomy 27:15 which curse is not causeless, but is according to law and justice;...
Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth...
_The length thereof is twenty cubits_, &c. Such scrolls for writing were usually longer than they were broad; so this was represented as ten yards in length, and five in breadth. The roll was very lar...
Then said he unto me, without waiting for a question on the part of the prophet, THIS IS THE CURSE THAT GOETH FORTH OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH, as written on the roll; FOR EVERY ONE THAT STEALET...
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...
EVERY ONE THAT STEALETH SHALL BE CUT OFF AS ON THIS SIDE: Or, every one of this people that stealeth, holdeth himself guiltless as it doth...
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...
THEN SAID HE; the angel, which instructed the prophet. THIS IS THE CURSE; this roll or book containeth the curse, the menaced punishment due to sinners, of which too many were still among the Jews. TH...
Zechariah 5:3 said H559 (H8799) curse H423 out H3318 (H8802) face H6440 earth H776 thief H1589 ...
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...
EARTH Literally, land, that is, Palestine....
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 majes...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:7; 1 Timothy 1:9; Daniel 9:11; Deuteronomy 11:28;...
This — This roll or book containeth the curse, due to sinners. The whole earth — Either the whole land of Judea, or all the world, wherever these sins are found. According to it — According to the thr...