Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
And I say unto the messenger who is speaking with me, `Whither are they causing the ephah to go?'
And I said to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these carry the ephah?
Zechariah — Contemporary of Haggai — but longer, stranger, and more explicitly Messianic. Eight night visions, a royal-priestly crown, Zion's king riding on a donkey, and the pierced one they shall look upon.
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Then said I to the angel that talked with me;.... This the prophet said after he had seen the "ephah" come forth; the woman, wickedness, cast into it, and the talent of lead upon her; and the two women lifting up the ephah between heaven and earth: Whither do these bear the ephah? he neither asks what the ephah signified, nor who were the women that bore it, but only whither they bore it.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
(Verse 9 and following) And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw, and behold, two women coming forth, and a spirit was on their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite, and they lifted up an amphora between the earth and the sky. And I said to the angel who spoke to me: Where are these taking the amphora? And he said to me: To build a house for it in the land of Shinar, and it will be established and placed there upon its base.
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420patristic
(2.) That their iniquity shall continue too, and their hearts shall be hardened in it. Blindness has happened unto Israel, and they are settled upon the lees of their own unbelief; their wickedness is established upon its own basis.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
And he gives him this account of it: I see a flying roll, and as near as he can guess by his eye it is twenty cubits long (that is, ten yards) and ten cubits broad, that is, five yards. The scriptures of the Old Testament and the New are rolls, in which God has written to us the great things of his law and gospel. Christ is the Master of the rolls.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches2
“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
