Zechariah 14:21 - Exposition

The last announcement is amplified. Every pot. All the vessels of the country shall be consecrated and used in Divine service. The Levitical distinction shall be abolished, and the Lord's service shall be perfect freedom. Every member of the Church, however humble his station or mean his acquirements, shall be a saint and fit for the Lord's use. The Canaanite; mercator (Vulgate). The word is used in the sense of "trafficker," or "merchant," in Job 40:1-24 :30 ( Job 41:6 , Authorized Version); Proverbs 31:24 (comp. Zephaniah 1:11 ). If any vessel might now be used in God's service, worshippers would no longer be obliged to buy special bowls from those who sold in the temple courts ( Matthew 21:12 ). But it is best in agreement with the context to take "Canaanite" to mean any unclean or profane person (comp. Genesis 9:25 ; Le Genesis 18:28 , etc.). Thus Daniel, in the History of Susanna, verse 56, addresses the wicked elder, "Thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Jude;" and Isaiah ( Isaiah 1:10 ) calls the chiefs of Israel "rulers of Sodom," and "people of Gomorrah." Henceforward the "people shall be all righteous" ( Isaiah 60:21 ). There shall be one, holy, Catholic Church. Thus the vision of the golden candlestick ( Isaiah 4:1-6 .) is fulfilled; and that this should come to pass is the design of God's manifold providences and operations (comp. Revelation 21:27 ; Revelation 22:15 ).