Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
Chapter 4. Zechariah 4:1-6 1. And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 1. Et reversus et angelus, qui loquebatur mecum, et excitavit me, quasi virum qui excitatur (vel, evigilat) a somno suo. 2. And said unto me, What seest thou?
Commenting on Zechariah 4:1-14
Here is, I. The prophet prepared to receive the discovery that was to be made to him: The angel that talked with him came and waked him, Zac 4:1. It seems, though he was in conference with an angel, and about matters of great and public concern, yet he grew dull and fell asleep, as it should seem, while the angel was yet talking with him.
Commenting on Zechariah 4:1-10
Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me,.... Either to upbraid him with his ignorance and stupidity; or rather to quicken his attention, and that of others, to the interpretation of it he was about to give him: Knowest thou not what these be? art thou ignorant of the design of them? or knowest thou not what is meant by them?