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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 43***
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS
+
+ZACHARIAS began to prophesy in the same year as Aggeus, and upon the
+same occasion. His prophecy is full of mysterious figures and promises
+of blessings, partly relating to the synagogue, and partly to the church
+of Christ.
+
+
+Zacharias Chapter 1
+
+The prophet exhorts the people to return to God, and declares his
+visions, by which he puts them in hopes of better times.
+
+1:1. In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of
+the Lord came to Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the
+prophet, saying:
+
+1:2. The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.
+
+1:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye
+to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord
+of hosts.
+
+1:4. Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried,
+saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and
+from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they
+hearken to me, saith the Lord.
+
+1:5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live
+always?
+
+1:6. But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my
+servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they
+returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according
+to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.
+
+1:7. In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month which is called
+Sabath, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to
+Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:
+
+1:8. I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he
+stood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him
+were horses, red, speckled, and white.
+
+A man... An angel in the shape of a man. It was probably Michael, the
+guardian angel of the church of God.
+
+1:9. And I said: What are these, my lord? and the angel that spoke in
+me, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:
+
+1:10. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said:
+These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.
+
+These are they, etc... The guardian angels of provinces and nations.
+
+1:11. And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood among the
+myrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold all
+the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.
+
+1:12. And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how
+long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda,
+with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.
+
+The seventieth year... Viz., from the beginning of the seige of
+Jerusalem, in the ninth year of king Sedecias, to the second year of
+king Darius. These seventy years of the desolation of Jerusalem and the
+cities of Juda, are different from the seventy years of captivity
+foretold by Jeremias; which began in the fourth year of Joakim, and
+ended in the first year of king Cyrus.
+
+1:13. And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words,
+comfortable words.
+
+1:14. And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry thou, saying: Thus
+saith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with a
+great zeal.
+
+1:15. And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I
+was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.
+
+1:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in
+mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the
+building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
+
+1:17. Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My cities shall yet
+flow with good things: and the Lord will yet comfort Sion, and he will
+yet choose Jerusalem.
+
+1:18. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.
+
+Four horns... The four horns represent the empires, or kingdoms, that
+persecute and oppress the kingdom of God.
+
+1:19. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: What are these?  And he
+said to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel,
+and Jerusalem.
+
+1:20. And the Lord shewed me four smiths.
+
+Four smiths... The four smiths, or carpenters ( for faber may signify
+either) represent those whom God makes his instruments in bringing to
+nothing the power of persecutors.
+
+1:21. And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These are
+the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of them
+lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the
+horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda
+to scatter it.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 2
+
+Under the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the progress of the church
+of Christ, by the conversion of some Jews and many Gentiles.
+
+2:1. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a
+measuring line in his hand.
+
+2:2. And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure
+Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great
+the length thereof.
+
+2:3. And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel
+went out to meet him.
+
+2:4. And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem
+shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and
+of the beasts in the midst thereof.
+
+Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls... This must be understood of
+the spiritual Jerusalem, the church of Christ.
+
+2:5. And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about:
+and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.
+
+2:6. O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I
+have scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.
+
+2:7. O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:
+
+2:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me
+to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth
+the apple of my eye:
+
+2:9. For behold, I lift up my hand upon them, and they shall be a prey
+to those that served them: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts
+sent me.
+
+2:10. Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of Sion: for behold I come,
+and I will dwell in the midst of thee: saith the Lord.
+
+2:11. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they
+shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: and thou
+shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.
+
+2:12. And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion in the sanctified
+land: and he shall yet choose Jerusalem.
+
+2:13. Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is
+risen up out of his holy habitation.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 3
+
+In a vision Satan appeareth accusing the high priest. He is cleansed
+from his sins. Christ is promised, and great fruit from his passion.
+
+3:1. And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the
+angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his
+adversary.
+
+Jesus... Alias, Josue, the son of Josedec, the high priest of that time.
+
+3:2. And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the
+Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out
+of the fire?
+
+3:3. And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the
+face of the angel.
+
+With filthy garments... Negligences and sins.
+
+3:4. Who answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take
+away the filthy garments from him. And he said to him: Behold I have
+taken away thy iniquity, and have clothed thee with change of garments.
+
+3:5. And he said: Put a clean mitre upon his head: and they put a clean
+mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the angel of the
+Lord stood.
+
+3:6. And the angel of the Lord protested to Jesus, saying:
+
+3:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and
+keep my charge, thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my
+courts, and I will give thee some of them that are now present here to
+walk with thee.
+
+I will give thee, etc... Angels to attend and assist thee.
+
+3:8. Hear, O Jesus thou high priest, thou and thy friends that dwell
+before thee, for they are portending men: for behold, I WILL BRING MY
+SERVANT THE ORIENT.
+
+Portending men... That is, men, who by words and actions are to foreshew
+wonders that are to come.-Ibid. My servant the Orient... Christ, who
+according to his humanity is the servant of God, is called the Orient
+from his rising like the sun in the east to enlighten the world.
+
+3:9. For behold the stone that I have laid before Jesus: upon one stone
+there are seven eyes: behold I will grave the graving thereof, saith the
+Lord of hosts: and I will take away the iniquity of that land in one
+day.
+
+The stone... Another emblem of Christ, the rock, foundation, and corner
+stone of his church.-Ibid. Seven eyes... The manifold providence of
+Christ over his church, or the seven gifts of the spirit of God.-Ibid.
+One day... Viz., the day of the passion of Christ, the source of all our
+good: when this precious stone shall be graved, that is, cut and
+pierced, with whips, thorns, nails, and spear.
+
+3:10. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, every man shall call his
+friend under the vine and under the fig tree.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 4
+
+The vision of the golden candlestick and seven lamps, and of the two
+olive trees.
+
+4:1. And the angel that spoke in me came again: and he waked me, as a
+man that is wakened out of his sleep.
+
+4:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and
+behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and
+the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that
+were upon the top thereof.
+
+A candlestick, etc... The temple of God that was then in building; and
+in a more sublime sense, the church of Christ.
+
+4:3. And two olive trees over it: one upon the right side of the lamp,
+and the other upon the left side thereof.
+
+4:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying:
+What are these things, my lord?
+
+4:5. And the angel that spoke in me answered, and said to me: Knowest
+thou not what these things are? And I said: No, my lord.
+
+4:6. And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the
+Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my
+spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
+
+To Zorobabel... This vision was in favour of Zorobabel: to assure him of
+success in the building of the temple, which he had begun, signified by
+the candlestick; the lamp of which, without any other industry, was
+supplied with oil, dropping from the two olive trees, and distributed by
+the seven funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights.
+
+4:7. Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zorobabel? thou shalt become
+a plain: and he shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give equal
+grace to the grace thereof.
+
+Great mountain... So he calls the opposition made by the enemies of
+God's people; which nevertheless, without an army or might on their
+side, was quashed by divine providence.-Ibid. Shall give equal grace,
+etc... Shall add grace to grace, or beauty to beauty.
+
+4:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
+
+4:9. The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house, and
+his hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts
+hath sent me to you.
+
+4:10. For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and
+shall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel.  These are the seven
+eyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the whole earth.
+
+Little days... That is, these small and feeble beginnings of the temple
+of God.-Ibid. The tin plummet... Literally, the stone of tin. He means
+the builder's plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold in his hand for the
+finishing the building.-Ibid. The seven eyes... The providence of God,
+that oversees and orders all things.
+
+4:11. And I answered, and said to him: What are these two olive trees
+upon the right side of the candlestick, and upon the left side thereof?
+
+4:12. And I answered again, and said to him: What are the two olive
+branches, that are by the two golden beaks, in which are the funnels of
+gold?
+
+4:13. And he spoke to me, saying: Knowest thou not what these are? And I
+said: No, my lord.
+
+4:14. And he said: These are two sons of oil who stand before the Lord
+of the whole earth.
+
+Two sons of oil... That is, the two anointed ones of the Lord; viz.,
+Jesus the high priest, and Zorobabel the prince.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 5
+
+The vision of the flying volume, and of the woman in the vessel.
+
+5:1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume
+flying.
+
+A volume... That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient
+books, which, from being rolled up, were called volumes.
+
+5:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume
+flying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten
+cubits.
+
+5:3. And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face
+of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and
+every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.
+
+5:4. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come
+to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely
+by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall
+consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
+
+5:5. And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift
+up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.
+
+5:6. And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth.
+And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.
+
+This is their eye... This is what they fix their eye upon: or this is a
+resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners.
+
+5:7. And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting
+in the midst of the vessel.
+
+5:8. And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of
+the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
+
+5:9. And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two
+women, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of
+a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven.
+
+5:10. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry
+the vessel?
+
+5:11. And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land of
+Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own
+basis.
+
+The land of Sennaar... Where Babel or Babylon was built, Gen. 11., where
+note, that Babylon in holy writ is often taken for the city of the
+devil: that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked: as Jerusalem
+is taken for the city and people of God.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 6
+
+The vision of the four chariots. Crowns are ordered for Jesus the high
+priest, as a type of Christ.
+
+6:1. And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four
+chariots came out from the midst of two mountains: and the mountains
+were mountains of brass.
+
+Four chariots... The four great empires of the Chaldeans, Persians,
+Grecians, and Romans. Or perhaps by the fourth chariot are represented
+the kings of Egypt and of Asia, the descendants of Ptolemeus and
+Seleucus.
+
+6:2. In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot
+black horses.
+
+6:3. And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot
+grisled horses, and strong ones.
+
+6:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me: What are
+these, my lord?
+
+6:5. And the angel answered, and said to me: These are the four winds of
+the heaven, which go forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.
+
+6:6. That in which were the black horses went forth into the land of the
+north, and the white went forth after them: and the grisled went forth
+to the land the south.
+
+The land of the north... So Babylon is called; because it lay to the
+north in respect of Jerusalem. The black horses, that is, the Medes and
+Persians: and after them Alexander and his Greeks, signified by the
+white horses, went thither because they conquered Babylon, executed upon
+it the judgments of God, which is signified, ver. 8, by the expression
+of quieting his spirit.-Ibid. The land of the south... Egypt, which lay
+to the south of Jerusalem, and was occupied first by Ptolemeus, and then
+by the Romans.
+
+6:7. And they that were most strong, went out, and sought to go, and to
+run to and fro through all the earth. And he said: Go, walk throughout
+the earth: and they walked throughout the earth.
+
+6:8. And he called me, and spoke to me, saying: Behold they that go
+forth into the land of the north, have quieted my spirit in the land of
+the north.
+
+6:9. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
+
+6:10. Take of them of the captivity, of Holdai, and of Tobias, and of
+Idaias; thou shalt come in that day, a shalt go into the house of
+Josias, the son of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.
+
+6:11. And thou shalt take gold and silver: and shalt make crowns, and
+thou shalt set them on the head of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high
+priest.
+
+6:12. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
+saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he
+spring up, a shall build a temple to the Lord.
+
+6:13. Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the
+glory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest
+upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
+
+Between them both... That is, he shall unite in himself the two offices
+or dignities of king and priest.
+
+6:14. And the crowns shall be to Helem, and Tobias, and Idaias, and to
+Hem, the son of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.
+
+6:15. And they that are far off, shall come and shall build in the
+temple of the Lord: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to
+you. But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will hear the voice of
+the Lord your God.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 7
+
+The people inquire concerning fasting: they are admonished to fast from
+sin.
+
+7:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the
+word of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth
+month, which is Casleu.
+
+7:2. When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent
+to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
+
+7:3. To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to
+the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify
+myself as I have now done for many years?
+
+The fifth month... They fasted on the tenth day of the fifth month;
+because on that day the temple was burnt. Therefore they inquire whether
+they are to continue the fast, after the temple is rebuilt. See this
+query answered in the 19th verse of the following chapter.
+
+7:4. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
+
+7:5. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying:
+When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for
+these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?
+
+7:6. And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and
+drink for yourselves?
+
+7:7. Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the
+former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy,
+both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants
+towards the south, and in the plain?
+
+7:8. And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:
+
+7:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and
+shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.
+
+7:10. And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger,
+and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his
+brother.
+
+7:11. But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to
+depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.
+
+7:12. And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should
+hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit
+by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from
+Lord of hosts.
+
+7:13. And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall
+they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.
+
+7:14. And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not:
+and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed
+through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a
+wilderness.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 8
+
+Joyful promises to Jerusalem: fully verified in the church of Christ.
+
+8:1. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
+
+8:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a
+great jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for
+her.
+
+8:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will
+dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city
+of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified
+mountain.
+
+8:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women
+dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his
+hand through multitude of days.
+
+8:5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls,
+playing in the streets thereo.
+
+8:6. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the
+remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith
+the Lord of hosts?
+
+8:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the
+land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.
+
+8:8. And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
+Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth
+and in justice.
+
+8:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you
+that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, in the
+day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the temple
+might be built.
+
+8:10. For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there
+hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him
+that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every
+one against his neighbour.
+
+8:11. But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people according
+to the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.
+
+8:12. But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her
+fruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give
+their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all
+these things.
+
+8:13. And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the
+Gentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and
+you shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strengthened.
+
+8:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you,
+when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord,
+
+8:15. And I had no mercy: so turning again I have thought in these days
+to do good to the house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not.
+
+8:16. These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth
+every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your
+gates.
+
+8:17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
+friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I
+hate, saith the Lord.
+
+8:18. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
+
+8:19. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and
+the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the
+tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great
+solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.
+
+The fast of the fourth month, etc... They fasted, on the ninth day of
+the fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem,
+Jer. 52.6. On the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the
+temple was burnt, Jer. 52.12. On the third day of the seventh month, for
+the murder of Godolias, Jer. 41.2. And on the tenth day of the tenth
+month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem, 4
+Kings 25.1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for the future,
+shall be changed, as is here promised, into joyful solemnities.
+
+8:20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many
+cities,
+
+8:21. And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and
+entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also
+will go.
+
+8:22. And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord
+of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.
+
+8:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of
+all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the
+skirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have
+heard that God is with you.
+
+Ten men, etc... Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish
+religion before Christ: but many more were converted to Christ by the
+apostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 9
+
+God will defend his church, and bring over even her enemies to the
+faith. The meek coming of Christ, to bring peace, to deliver the
+captives by his blood, and to give us all good things.
+
+9:1. The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of
+Damascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of
+Israel is the Lord's.
+
+Hadrach... Syria.
+
+9:2. Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they
+have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.
+
+9:3. And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together
+silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.
+
+9:4. Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in
+the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.
+
+9:5. Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very
+sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king
+shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.
+
+9:6. And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride
+of the Philistines.
+
+9:7. And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
+abominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our
+God, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.
+
+His blood... It is spoken of the Philistines, and particularly of
+Azotus, (where the temple of Dagon was,) and contains a prophecy of the
+conversion of that people from their bloody sacrifices and abominations
+to the worship of the true God.
+
+9:8. And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going
+and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for
+now I have seen with my eyes.
+
+That serve me in war... Viz., the Machabees.
+
+9:9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of
+Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he
+is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
+
+9:10. And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out
+of Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak
+peace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from
+the rivers even to the end of the earth.
+
+9:11. Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy
+prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.
+
+9:12. Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render
+thee double as I declare today.
+
+9:13. Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim:
+and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I
+will make thee as the sword of the mighty.
+
+Thy sons, O Sion, etc... Viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way,
+conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ.
+
+9:14. And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go
+forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in
+the whirlwind of the south.
+
+9:15. The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devonr, and
+subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be
+inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and
+as the horns of the altar.
+
+9:16. And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of
+his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.
+
+Holy stones... The apostles, who shall be as pillars and monuments in
+the church.
+
+9:17. For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful
+thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?
+
+The corn, etc... His most excellent gift is the blessed Eucharist,
+called here The corn, that is, the bread of the elect, and the wine
+springing forth virgins; that is, maketh virgins to bud, or spring
+forth, as it were, like flowers among thorns; because it has a wonderful
+efficacy to give and preserve purity.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 10
+
+God is to be sought to, and not idols. The victories of his church,
+which shall arise originally from the Jewish nation.
+
+10:1. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will
+make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in
+the field.
+
+10:2. For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners
+have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in
+vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted,
+because they have no shepherd.
+
+10:3. My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit upon
+the buck goats: for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house
+of Juda, and hath made them as the horse of his glory in the battle.
+
+10:4. Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of
+him the bow of battle, out of him ever exacter together.
+
+10:5. And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of
+the ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them,
+and the riders of horses shall be confounded.
+
+10:6. And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of
+Joseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on
+them: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for I
+am the Lord their God, and will hear them.
+
+10:7. And they shall be as the valiant men of Ephraim, and their heart
+shall rejoice as through wine: and their children shall see, and shall
+rejoice, and their heart shall be joyful in the Lord.
+
+10:8. I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because
+I have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied
+before.
+
+10:9. And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall
+remember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.
+
+
+10:10. And I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt, and I will
+gather them from among the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land of
+Galaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be found for them.
+
+10:11. And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike
+the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be
+confounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre
+of Egypt shall depart.
+
+10:12. I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his
+name, saith the Lord.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 11
+
+The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. God's dealings with the
+Jews, and their reprobation.
+
+11:1. Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.
+
+O Libanus... So Jerusalem, and more particularly the temple, is called
+by the prophets, from its height, and from its being built of the cedars
+of Libanus.-Ibid. Thy cedars... Thy princes and chief men.
+
+11:2. Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are
+laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut
+down.
+
+11:3. The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is
+laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of
+the Jordan is spoiled.
+
+11:4. Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,
+
+11:5. Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold
+them, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their
+shepherds spared them not.
+
+11:6. And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the
+Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's
+hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land,
+and I will not deliver it out of their hand.
+
+Every one into his neighbour's hand, etc... This alludes to the last
+siege of Jerusalem, in which the different factions of the Jews
+destroyed one another; and they that remained fell into the hands of
+their king, that is, of the Roman emperor, of whom they had said, John
+19.15, we have no king but Caesar.
+
+11:7. And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the
+flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I
+called a Cord, and I fed the flock.
+
+Two rods... Or shepherd's staves, meaning the different ways of God's
+dealing with his people; the one, by sweet means, called the rod of
+Beauty: the other, by bands and punishments, called the Cord. And where
+both these rods are made of no use or effect by the obstinacy of
+sinners, the rods are broken, and such sinners are given up to a
+reprobate sense, as the Jews were.
+
+11:8. And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was
+straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.
+
+Three shepherds in one month... That is, in a very short time. By these
+three shepherds probably are meant the latter princes and high priests
+of the Jews, whose reign was short.
+
+11:9. And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and
+that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every
+one the flesh of his neighbour.
+
+11:10. And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to
+make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.
+
+11:11. And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock
+that keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord.
+
+11:12. And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my
+wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces
+of silver.
+
+11:13. And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome
+price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of
+silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.
+
+The statuary... The Hebrew word signifies also a potter.
+
+11:14. And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might
+break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.
+
+11:15. And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a
+foolish shepherd.
+
+A foolish shepherd... This was to represent the foolish, that is, the
+wicked princes and priests that should rule the people, before their
+utter desolation.
+
+11:16. For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not
+visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is
+broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of
+the fat ones, and break their hoofs.
+
+11:17. O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon
+his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his
+right eye shall be utterly darkened.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 12
+
+God shall protect his church against her persecutors. The mourning of
+Jerusalem.
+
+12:1. The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the
+Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of
+the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:
+
+12:2. Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the
+people round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against
+Jerusalem.
+
+A lintel of surfeiting... That is, a door into which they shall seek to
+enter, to glut themselves with blood; but they shall stumble, and fall
+like men stupefied with wine. It seems to allude to the times of
+Antiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees.
+
+12:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem
+a burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be
+rent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered
+together against her.
+
+12:4. In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike every horse with
+astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon
+the house of Juda, and will strike every horse of the nations with
+blindness.
+
+12:5. And the governors of Juda shall say in their heart: Let the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts,
+their God.
+
+12:6. In that day I will make the governors of Juda like a furnace of
+fire amongst wood, and as a firebrand amongst hay: and they shall devour
+all the people round about, to the right hand, and to the left: and
+Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place in Jerusalem.
+
+12:7. And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Jada, as in the
+beginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda.
+
+12:8. In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
+and he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and
+the house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their
+sight.
+
+12:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy
+all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
+
+12:10. And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they
+shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him
+as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the
+manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.
+
+12:11. In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like
+the lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.
+
+Adadremmon... A place near Mageddon, where the good king Josias was
+slain, and much lamented by his people.
+
+12:12. And the land shall mourn: families and families apart: the
+families of the house of David apart, and their women apart:
+
+12:13. The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women apart:
+the families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart: the
+families of Semei apart, and their women apart.
+
+12:14. All the rest of the families, families and families apart, and
+their women apart.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 13
+
+The fountain of Christ. Idols and false prophets shall be extirpated:
+Christ shall suffer: his people shall be tried by fire.
+
+13:1. In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David,
+and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and
+of the unclean woman.
+
+13:2. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,
+that I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall
+be remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the
+unclean spirit out of the earth.
+
+13:3. And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any
+more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall
+say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the
+name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall
+thrust him through, when he shall prophesy.
+
+13:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be
+confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither
+shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:
+
+13:5. But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is
+my example from my youth.
+
+13:6. And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of
+thy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of
+them that loved me.  13:7. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and
+against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the
+shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to
+the little ones.
+
+13:8. And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in
+it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be
+left therein.
+
+13:9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine
+them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They
+shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my
+people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.
+
+Zacharias Chapter 14
+
+After the persecutions of the church shall follow great prosperity.
+Persecutors shall be punished: so shall all that will not serve God in
+his church.
+
+14:1. Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be
+divided in the midst of thee.
+
+14:2. And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city
+shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be
+defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the
+rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city.
+
+I will gather, etc... This seems to be a prophecy of what was done by
+Antiochus.
+
+14:3. Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those
+nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
+
+14:4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
+which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of
+Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the
+west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be
+separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.
+
+14:5. And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the
+valley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall
+flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias
+king of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with
+him.
+
+14:6. And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no
+light, but cold and frost.
+
+No light... Viz., in that dismal time of persecution of Antiochus, when
+it was neither day nor night: (ver. 7) because they neither had the
+comfortable light of the day, nor the repose of the night.
+
+14:7. And there shall be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day
+nor night: and in the time of the evening there shall be light:
+
+In the time of the evening there shall be light... An unexpected light
+shall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be
+at the worst.
+
+14:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go
+out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to
+the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.
+
+Living waters... Viz., the gospel of Christ.
+
+14:9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there
+shall be one Lord, and his name shall be one.
+
+14:10. And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill
+to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall
+dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of
+the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower
+of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses.
+
+All the land shall return, etc... This, in some measure, was verified by
+the means of the Machabees: but is rather to be taken in a spiritual
+sense, as relating to the propagation of the church, and kingdom of
+Christ, the true Jerusalem, which alone shall never fall under the
+anathema of destruction, or God's curse.
+
+14:11. And people shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more an
+anathema: but Jerusalem shall sit secure.
+
+14:12. And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall strike all
+nations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one shall
+consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall
+consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in
+their mouth.
+
+The flesh of every one shall consume, etc... Such judgments as these
+have often fallen upon the persecutors of God's church, as appears by
+many instances in history.
+
+14:13. In that day there shall be a great tumult from the Lord among
+them: and a man shall take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall
+be clasped upon his neighbour's hand.
+
+14:14. And even Juda shall fight against Jerusalem: and the riches of
+all nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,
+and garments in great abundance.
+
+Even Juda, etc... The carnal Jews, and other false brothers, shall join
+in persecuting the church.
+
+14:15. And the destruction of the horse, and of the mule, and of the
+camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts, that shall be in those
+tents, shall be like this destruction.
+
+Shall be like this destruction... That is, the beasts shall be destroyed
+as well as the men: the common soldiers as well as their leaders.
+
+14:16. And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against
+Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of
+hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
+
+They that shall be left, etc... That is, many of them that persecuted
+the church shall be converted to its faith and communion.-Ibid. To keep
+the feast of tabernacles... This feast was kept by the Jews in memory of
+their sojourning forty years in the desert, in their way to the land of
+promise. And in the spiritual sense is duly kept by all such Christians
+as in their earthly pilgrimage are continually advancing toward their
+true home, the heavenly Jerusalem; by the help of the sacraments and
+sacrifice of the church. And they that neglect this must not look for
+the kind showers of divine grace, to give fruitfulness to their souls.
+
+14:17. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall not go up of the
+families of the land to Jerusalem, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts,
+there shall be no rain upon them.
+
+14:18. And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it
+be upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will
+strike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
+
+14:19. This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the sin of all nations,
+that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
+
+14:20. In that day that which is upon the bridle of the horse shall be
+holy to the Lord: and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as
+the phials before the altar.
+
+That which is upon the bridle, etc... The golden ornaments of the
+bridles, etc., shall be turned into offerings in the house of God. And
+there shall be an abundance of caldrons and phials for the sacrifices of
+the temple; by which is meant, under a figure, the great resort there
+shall be to the temple, that is, to the church of Christ, and her
+sacrifice.
+
+14:21. And every caldron in Jerusalem and Juda shall be sanctified to
+the Lord of hosts: and all that sacrifice shall come, and take of them,
+and shall seethe in them: and the merchant shall be no more in the house
+of the Lord of hosts in that day.
+
+The merchant shall be no more, etc... Or, as some render it, The
+Chanaanite shall be no more, etc., that is, the profane and unbelievers
+shall have no title to be in the house of the Lord. Or there shall be no
+occasion for buyers or sellers of oxen, or sheep, or doves, in the house
+of God, such as Jesus Christ cast out of the temple.
+
+
+
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