He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.”
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
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar,.... That is, in the province of Babylon, as the Targum paraphrases it; for Babel, or Babylon, was in the land of Shinar, Gen 10:10 whither the Jews were carried captive, Dan 1:2 Isa 11:11, and the bearing of the "ephah" thither may denote the cause of their captivity, the measure...