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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. 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