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Zechariah
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Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze. See also: Ephesians 1:11Zechariah 6:5Acts 4:28In the first chariot were red horses. In the second chariot were black horses. See also: Zechariah 1:8Revelation 6:2-6Revelation 12:3In the third chariot were white horses. In the fourth chariot were dappled horses, all of them powerful. See also: Revelation 6:2Revelation 6:8Zechariah 1:8Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?” See also: Zechariah 1:9Zechariah 1:19-21Zechariah 5:5-6The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth. See also: Hebrews 1:14Ezekiel 37:9Hebrews 1:7The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.” See also: Ezekiel 1:4Jeremiah 4:6Jeremiah 51:48The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth. He said, “Go around and through the earth!” So they walked back and forth through the earth. See also: 2 Chronicles 16:9Zechariah 1:10Daniel 7:19Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.” See also: Ezekiel 5:13Jeremiah 51:48-49Ezekiel 24:13The LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Zechariah 1:1Zechariah 7:1Zechariah 8:1“Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon. See also: Ezra 7:14-16Ezra 8:26-30Jeremiah 28:6Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; See also: Zechariah 3:1Psalms 21:3Song of Songs 3:11and speak to him, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch! He will grow up out of his place; and he will build the LORD’s temple. See also: Zechariah 3:8Jeremiah 33:15Isaiah 4:2He will build the LORD’s temple. He will bear the glory, and will sit and rule on his throne. He will be a priest on his throne. The counsel of peace will be between them both. See also: Psalms 110:4Hebrews 3:1Isaiah 49:5-6The crowns shall be to Helem, to Tobijah, to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the LORD’s temple. See also: Exodus 12:14Matthew 26:13Mark 14:9Those who are far off shall come and build in the LORD’s temple; and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the LORD your God’s voice.”’” See also: Isaiah 60:10Zechariah 3:71 Peter 2:4-5
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 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 6:1
Ver. 1. Four chariots. The four great empires of the Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, and Romans; or, perhaps, by the fourth chariot are represented the kings of Egypt and of Asia, the descendants of Ptolemeus and Seleucus. Ch.
See Dan. ii. W. --- The chariots seem to represent the same thing as the four horns, (C. i. 18.) namely, the punishment of the four empires. The angel says nothing of the first chariot, as the Chaldeans, who overthrew the Assyrians, were now devoid of power. --- Brass, or hard; signifying that the chariots were designed to bruise nations. C. ---
Empires depend on the decrees of God. M. --- The two mountains may denote the passes of Cilicia, through which the conquerors must pass from Egypt and Syria to Babylon. Tournemine.
↑ 1Zechariah 6:2
Ver. 2. Red. The Chaldeans were bloody towards the Jews, and clothed in red.
Nah. ii. 3. M.
↑ 2Zechariah 6:3
Ver. 3. Strong; (Prot. marg.) the text has "bay." H. --- Some Greek copies read erroneously, red.
S. Jer. --- Others have, variegated, as v. 7. H.
↑ 3Zechariah 6:5
Ver. 5. Winds. These angels go throughout the world to punish. Dan. x. 13. We commonly suppose the tutelar angels to be for the defence of their kingdoms.
C. --- But they may often promote our real welfare by chastisements. H. --- The four monarchies fight like the winds, and soon disappear. M.
↑ 5Zechariah 6:6
Ver. 6. North. So Babylon is called, because it lay to the north in respect of Jerusalem. The black horses, that is, the Medes and Persians, and after them Alexander and his Greeks, signified by the white horses, went thither because they conquered Babylon, executed upon it the judgments of God, which is signified v. 8 by the expression of quieting his spirit. Ch. --- The Persians are black, afflicting the Jews under Assuerus, and hindering the temple. M. ---
Cambyses meditated their utter ruin. C. ii. 20. H. --- White. Alexander was of a beneficent temper when he was not intoxicated. He fought for glory, and was kind to the Jews. C. --- South: Egypt, which lay to the south of Jerusalem, and was occupied first by Ptolemeus, and then by the Romans. Ch. --- The Lagides were some good and some very bad princes, represented by the grisly colour.
C.
↑ 6Zechariah 6:7
Ver. 7. Strong. Sept. "variegated;" psaroi, (H.) sturnini. S. Jer. --- Earth. This well describes the ambition and power of the Seleucides, particularly of Antiochus the great, (C.) or of the Roman generals down to Cæsar. M.
↑ 7Zechariah 6:8
Ver. 8. Spirit. Sept. "wrath or fury." H. --- Nabopolassar overcame the Assyrians, Cyrus the Chaldeans, as Alexander would shortly treat the Persians.
↑ 8Zechariah 6:10
Ver. 10. Holdai, &c. They had brought presents for the temple, which are to be used to make crowns for Jesus and Zorobabel. v. 13. C. --- The names are interpreted by the Sept. "of the princes and of its useful things, and of those who have known it, ( captivity) and thou," &c. H. ---
Helem and Hem are afterwards mentioned instead of Holdai. v. 14. S. Jer.
↑ 10Zechariah 6:11
Ver. 11. Crowns. Chal. "a great crown." Sept. v. 14. "a crown;" perhaps like the pope's M. ---
Jesus. When the prophet set the crown on the high priest's head, in order to shew that it did not belong to him, except as a figure of the Messias, he added, behold a man, who is also God, called Orient, or "raising up," and establishing the kingdom, which was promised to David. S. Jer. W.
↑ 11Zechariah 6:12
Ver. 12. Orient. Prot. "the branch, and he shall grow up out of his place." H. ---
Heb. "under or from himself." This alludes to the miraculous birth of Christ, (Is.
xi. 1.) whom the prophet had principally in view; though his hearers might naturally understand (C.) Zorobabel, who was to preserve the royal family and build the temple. Theod. S. Jer. --- Yet he was only a shadow of the Messias. C.
iii. 8. C.
↑ 12Zechariah 6:13
Ver. 13. Glory. Sept. "virtue," or "receive strength" and courage, areten; (H.) or one of the crowns, as prince of Juda. v. 10. C. --- Both. That is, he shall unite in himself the two offices or dignities of king and priest. Ch. --- Zorobabel and Jesus shall act in concert. H.
↑ 13Zechariah 6:14
Ver. 14. Helem. Sept. "the crown shall be for those who expect him." H. --- Hem.
Sept. "for grace." Heb. chen. S. Jer. --- Thus proper names are frequently interpreted. H. --- The crowns were not to be worn, but to be deposited in the temple. 1 Mac. i. 23. C. --- The names of those four who had contributed towards their making, were to be inscribed upon them. Helem and Hem are the same with Holdai and Josias. M. --- The Jews say Hem or Daniel, and his three companions, brought gifts. S. Jer.
↑ 14Zechariah 6:15
Ver. 15. Off. Many Jews now assisted in the building, coming from all parts.
The temple was thus finished in four years time; whereas Solomon, with all his riches and workmen, spent seven in building one. C.
↑ 15License: 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