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Zechariah
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Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. See also: Zechariah 5:2Ezekiel 2:9-10Isaiah 8:1He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” See also: Zechariah 4:2Amos 7:8Genesis 6:11-13Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. See also: Exodus 20:15Isaiah 24:6Isaiah 43:28I will cause it to go out,” says the LORD of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.” See also: Habakkuk 2:9-11Proverbs 3:33Malachi 3:5Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing.” See also: Zechariah 1:9Zechariah 1:19Zechariah 4:5I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land— See also: Amos 8:5Ezekiel 44:10-11and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up—and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.” See also: Revelation 17:1-18Ezekiel 23:1-49Jeremiah 3:1-2He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth. See also: Micah 6:11Proverbs 5:22Psalms 38:4Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women; and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. See also: Hosea 8:1Daniel 9:26-27Deuteronomy 28:49Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?” He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.” See also: Genesis 11:2Genesis 10:10Daniel 1:2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Zechariah 5:1
Ver. 1. Eyes of the soul. M. --- Volume. That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient books, which, from begin rolled up, were called volumes.
Ch. --- Such are still used in the synagogues. They were usually written only on one side. C. --- Sept. have read e at the end of megilla, and render "a scythe," (H.) indicating chastisement. Aquila and Th. have Diphtherea, and Sym. Kephalis. S. Jer. --- The latter denotes the roller H. to which the parchment was sewed.
M. --- The former signifies a book written on vellum, particularly that in which the poets say Jupiter marks the sins and punishments of mankind. The prophet saw a volume of this nature. C.
--- The sins of the people, and the punishment designed for them, were described. It appeared flying, to shew that the decree came from heaven. S.
Chrys. Il. xxvii. ad pop. W.
↑ 1Zechariah 5:2
Ver. 2. Cubits, alluding to Judea, which was twice as long as it was broad. M.
--- Many explain this vision and that of the woman, (v. 7) of the Jews, (C.) after S. Jerom. H. --- But is seems rather to denote the Chaldeans, whose sentence had been long pronounced, and who were punished by the Persians, and by the Greeks, as by two women. If we understand the Jews, their iniquity was chastised by the Assyrians and Chaldeans. C.
↑ 2Zechariah 5:3
Ver. 3. In like. Prot. "shall cut off as on that side standing to it." H.
↑ 3Zechariah 5:4
Ver. 4. Thief. Nabuchodonosor is often so styled. S. Jer. iv. 7. This title comprises all the injuries done to man, as he that sweareth falsely refers to those where God's honour is concerned (C.) more immediately. H.
↑ 4Zechariah 5:6
Ver. 6. Vessel. Heb. epha. C. --- Eye. This is what they fix their eye upon, or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz. of sinners. Ch. --- Prot.
"resemblance." H. --- This is their picture. C. --- Sept. "wickedness;" aunom. H.
--- U is often mistaken for i. S. Jer. Yet here the Sept. seems equally intelligible, v. 8. H.
↑ 6Zechariah 5:7
Ver. 7. Talent, or weight, (H.) called a stone, v. 8. --- Vessel, like the idol Canopus.
↑ 7Zechariah 5:8
Ver. 8. He cast. Heb. (C.) according to Theodot. (S. Jer.) "She cast herself into the epha," &c.
H.
↑ 8Zechariah 5:9
Ver. 9. Women. They often represent nations; and here the Jews understand the Medes and Greeks, who punished the Chaldees. S. Jerom rather thinks that the Assyrians and Chaldeans are meant, carrying away Israel and Juda.
Yet the former supposition seems preferable, as the woman in the vessel signified the wickedness of Babylon. --- Kite. Moderns have, "stork:" the true sense is uncertain. C. --- The Jews became blind and hardened on account of their avarice and perjuries. W.
↑ 9Zechariah 5:11
Ver. 11. the land of Sennaar, where Babel or Babylon was built; (Gen. ix.) where note that Babylon, in holy writ, is often taken for the city of the devil, (that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked) as Jerusalem is taken for the city and people of God. Ch. --- Antichrist will begin his reign at Babylon. W. --- Yet this is not clear. H. --- The Chaldeans are driven from the countries which they had seized, and confined to their own territory, by the Persians and Greeks; or, if we explain it of the Jews, many of them remained at Babylon, and did not return to defile their own country. Only those whose hearts were touched by God returned. 1 Esd. i. 5. C. ---
Sennaar means "excussion." The Jews have been driven by the Chaldees and Romans into all parts. M.
↑ 11License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses