The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:1-14
§ 7. The fifth vision: the golden candlestick. read more
ゼカリヤ書 4:8-14 Jc
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:7-10
Encouragement to Christian workers. I. THOUGH THE WORK BE DERIDED , IT IS GOD 'S WORK . Therefore we are sure it is right and good. We can throw ourselves into it with all our heart. Patience. What is of God cannot fail. II. THOUGH THE DIFFICULTIES BE GREAT , THEY ABE CAPABLE OF BEING OVERCOME , Difficulties are a test. They show what spirit we are of. They separate the chaff from the wheat. Remember "Formality" and "Hypocrisy" in the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:8
The word of the Lord came unto me. The word came through the interpreting angel, as is clear from the expression in Zechariah 4:9 , "The Lord hath sent me unto you." He explains more fully what had been already announced figuratively. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:8-14
The Church sustained. "Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house," etc. These verses continue the metaphors of the previous portion, but in the opposite order. Zechariah 4:1-7 begin with the "olive trees" and end with the "house;" Zechariah 4:8-14 begin with the "house" ( Zechariah 4:8-10 ) and conclude with the "trees." We may look on this latter passage, therefore, as a kind of additional message ("moreover," ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:9
Have laid the foundation. Zerubbabel had commenced the rebuilding in the second year of the return, in the second month ( Ezra 3:8 ); it had been hindered by the opposition of the neighbouring people ( Ezra 4:1-5 , Ezra 4:24 ), and was not resumed till the second year of Darius. Shall finish it. The temple was finished in Darius's sixth year ( Ezra 6:15 ). Thou shalt know, etc. The truth of the angel's mission would be proved by the event, viz. the successful issue (comp. ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? The "small things" are the weak and poor beginning of the temple ( Haggai 2:3 ); as the Targum glosses, "on account of the edifice, because it was small." Small as the present work was, it was a pledge of the full completion, and was therefore not to be despised. So the question is equivalent to, "Can any one, after these promises and prophecies, presume to be doubtful about the future?" For they shall rejoice , etc. The subject of the verbs... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:11
Then answered I. The prophet had received a general explanation of the vision; he had probably understood that the candelabrum represented the theocracy, of whose restoration and life the temple was the symbol and vehicle. One point was still obscure, and he asks, What are these two olive trees? ( Zechariah 4:3 ). To this question no answer is immediately forthcoming, the answer being delayed in order to augment the prophet's desire of understanding the vision, and to induce him to make... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:11-14
The olive trees and the candlesticks: model religious teachers. "Then answered I, and said unto him," etc. This is not another vision, but an explanation of the one recorded in the preceding verses. The explanation is that the two branches of the olive tree which, by means of the two tubes of gold empty their oil, is that they represented "two anointed ones," or sons of oil. Perhaps Joshua and Zerubbabel are particularly referred to. "Because," says Henderson, "when installed into office... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:12
The prophet perceives the chief point in the mystic olive trees, so he alters his question the second time, asking, What be these two olive branches? ( shibbolim ); Vulgate, spicae , "ears," as of corn, so called, as Kimchi supposes, because they were full of berries, as the ears are full of grains of corn. Which through the two golden pipes, etc.; rather, which by means of two golden tubes are emptying the golden oil out of themselves. The oil dropped of itself from the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 4:1-10
Man as a student of the Divine revelation and a doer of Divine work. "And the angel that talked with me," etc. "It is needful to keep in mind that all these successive scenes were presented to the mind of the prophet in vision; and that each vision was distinct, forming a whole of itself, independently of the scenery of those which preceded it, although not so as to preclude connection in the lessons taught, and occasional reference (such as we shall find in the one now before us) to the... read more