So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
CHAPTER 1 Lecture One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Zechariah 1:1-3 1. 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 1.
Commenting on Zechariah 1:1-21
We not come to visions and revelations of the Lord; for in that way God chose to speak by Zechariah, to awaken the people's attention, and to engage their humble reverence of the word and their humble enquiries into it, and to fix it the more in their minds and memories.
Commenting on Zechariah 1:7-17
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me,.... See Zac 1:9 what was the effect of Christ's intercession for the people of the Jews, was communicated to a ministering angel, and by him to the Prophet Zechariah: with good words, and comfortable words; such as would be for the good and comfort of God's people, as follows; see Isa 40:1.