The simplest rendering is marked by the accents. “For who has despised the day of small things? And (that is, seeing that there have rejoiced a…

A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS.

Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic la…

Here the angel rebukes the sloth and fear of the people, for most of them were very faint-hearted. He also blames the Jews because they judged God’…

For who has despised the day of small things ?
&c.] This literally refers to the building of the second temple, whic…

The exact fulfillment of Scripture prophecies is a convincing proof of their divine origin. Though the instruments are weak and unlikely, yet God o…