Verse 5
"And I said, let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by."
"And I said ..." Our version (ASV) indicates that Zechariah himself at this point interjected himself into the proceedings of the vision with a prayer "Let them," a prayer immediately answered through full compliance with his request.
"And I said ..." Upon the basis of these brief words being omitted from the LXX, Thomas declared that, "They should be deleted."[13] But there is no evidence whatever that the Septuagint (LXX) is superior to the the Hebrew text of the O.T. either in this passage, or any other.
This re-investiture of Joshua as the representative of the people of God signified the ultimate, not the immediate, true cleansing of the Israel of God (both old and new); but not only that, it would also appear in the very next verse that even the ultimate forgiveness of human transgressions was invariably and always contingent upon human fulfillment of certain conditions.
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