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I said, What is it? He said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land
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The Measure of Sin
Commentators widely agree that the 'ephah,' a standard grain measure, symbolizes the collective sins of the people. The vision illustrates a crucial principle: God is patient, but there is a limit. When a nation's iniquity 'fills the measure,' divine judgment follows. This is not about individual sins being counted one-by-one, but about a corporate state of rebellion reaching its final point, as seen when Jesus told the Pharisees to 'fill up the measure of your fathers’' (Matthew 23:32).
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This is the ephah that goes forth—Theodoret states: “We too are taught by this, that the Lord of all administers all things in weight and me…
19th Century
Anglican
A SERIES OF SEVEN VISIONS.
Zechariah 1:7 to Zechariah 6:15. Between the commencement of Zechariah’s prophetic la…
16th Century
Protestant
Here I stop; I intended to add all the verses, but I can hardly finish the whole today. It will be enough for us to understand that this is the sec…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I said, What [is] it ? &c.] After he has lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, an…
In this vision, the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of a grain measure. This signified the Jewish nation. They are filling the measur…