The Prophet Zechariah
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
- Kapitel 8 -
(Micah 4:6–13)
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(a)8:4 The word ‘baculus’ could be translated as ‘walking stick’ or ‘staff.’ The phrase ‘præ multitudine dierum’ explains why there will be so many elderly during that time; it is because people will live for a multitude of days. This is the time of the great monarch’s reign, during which people will live long and healthy lives.(Conte)
(b)8:7 The land of the rising sun (Orientis) is the East (perhaps China or Japan) and the land of the setting of the sun (Occasus) is the West (perhaps North America).(Conte)
(c)8:17 Notice that the Bible often breaks the rules of good writing. The first sentence of this verse switches from third person singular (‘anyone’) to second person plural (‘your hearts’). The Bible does not follow conventional rules for composition or even grammar.(Conte)
(d)8:19
The fast of the fourth month, etc: They fasted, on the ninth day of the fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem, Jer. 52:6. On the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the temple was burnt, Jer. 52:12. On the third day of the seventh month, for the murder of Godolias, Jer. 41:2. And on the tenth day of the tenth month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem, 4 Kings. 25:1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for the future, shall be changed, as is here promised, into joyful solemnities.(Challoner)
(e)8:23
Ten men, etc: Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish religion before Christ: but many more were converted to Christ by the apostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation.(Challoner)