For the seed shall be peace - “Your seed shall be peace and a blessing, so that they will call it ‘a seed of peace.’” The unusual c…

For the seed ... prosperous. — Compare the Syriac, for the seed shall be peace. Better, as in the margin, Fo…

The vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase,

Here Zechariah promises the continuance of God’s favor, which the Jews had now begun to taste. God then had, in part, openly shown that he was a Fa…

For the seed [shall be] prosperous
Being cast into the earth, it shall spring up again, and produce a large increase; whereas …

Only those who lay their hands to the plough of duty will have them strengthened with the promises of mercy: those who avoid their fathers' faults …