Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
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
The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and nation and the dispersion of the Jews, when, by crucifying Christ and persecuting his gospel, they should have filled up the measure of their iniquities; therefore it...
Commenting on Zechariah 5:5-11
Then the angel that talked with me went forth,.... From the place where he was, and had been interpreting the vision of the flying roll, unto another more convenient for showing and explaining the following one; and, as it should seem, took the prophet along with him: and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth; either...