“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
Chapter 5 Lecture One Hundred and Forty-third Zechariah 5:1-4 1. Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 1. Et reversus sum et extuli oculos meos, et aspexi, et ecce volumen volans. 2. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 5:1-11
We do not find that the prophet now needed to be awakened, as he did Zac 4:1. Being awakened then, he kept wakeful after; nay, now he needs not be so much as called to look about him, for of his own accord he turns and lifts up his eyes. This good men sometimes get by their infirmities, they make them the more careful and circumspect afterwards. Now observe, I.
Commenting on Zechariah 5:1-4
And he said unto me,.... That is, the angel: What seest thou? and I answered, I see a flying roll, the length whereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits; so that it was a very large one, a volume of a very uncommon size, especially it may so seem to us; but in other nations they have very long rolls or volumes...