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Zechariah","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS\n\nZACHARIAS began to prophesy in the same year as Aggeus, and upon the\nsame occasion. His prophecy is full of mysterious figures and promises\nof blessings, partly relating to the synagogue, and partly to the church\nof Christ.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet exhorts the people to return to God, and declares his\nvisions, by which he puts them in hopes of better times.\n\n1:1. In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of\nthe Lord came to Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the\nprophet, saying:\n\n1:2. The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.\n\n1:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye\nto me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord\nof hosts.\n\n1:4. Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried,\nsaying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and\nfrom your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they\nhearken to me, saith the Lord.\n\n1:5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live\nalways?\n\n1:6. But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my\nservants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they\nreturned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according\nto our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.\n\n1:7. In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month which is called\nSabath, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to\nZacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:\n\n1:8. I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he\nstood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him\nwere horses, red, speckled, and white.\n\nA man... An angel in the shape of a man. It was probably Michael, the\nguardian angel of the church of God.\n\n1:9. And I said: What are these, my lord? and the angel that spoke in\nme, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:\n\n1:10. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said:\nThese are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.\n\nThese are they, etc... The guardian angels of provinces and nations.\n\n1:11. And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood among the\nmyrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold all\nthe earth is inhabited, and is at rest.\n\n1:12. And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how\nlong wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda,\nwith which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.\n\nThe seventieth year... Viz., from the beginning of the seige of\nJerusalem, in the ninth year of king Sedecias, to the second year of\nking Darius. These seventy years of the desolation of Jerusalem and the\ncities of Juda, are different from the seventy years of captivity\nforetold by Jeremias; which began in the fourth year of Joakim, and\nended in the first year of king Cyrus.\n\n1:13. And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words,\ncomfortable words.\n\n1:14. And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry thou, saying: Thus\nsaith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with a\ngreat zeal.\n\n1:15. And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I\nwas angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.\n\n1:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in\nmercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the\nbuilding line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.\n\n1:17. Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My cities shall yet\nflow with good things: and the Lord will yet comfort Sion, and he will\nyet choose Jerusalem.\n\n1:18. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.\n\nFour horns... The four horns represent the empires, or kingdoms, that\npersecute and oppress the kingdom of God.\n\n1:19. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: What are these?  And he\nsaid to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel,\nand Jerusalem.\n\n1:20. And the Lord shewed me four smiths.\n\nFour smiths... The four smiths, or carpenters ( for faber may signify\neither) represent those whom God makes his instruments in bringing to\nnothing the power of persecutors.\n\n1:21. And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These are\nthe horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of them\nlifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the\nhorns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda\nto scatter it.\n\nZacharias Chapter 2\n\nUnder the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the progress of the church\nof Christ, by the conversion of some Jews and many Gentiles.\n\n2:1. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a\nmeasuring line in his hand.\n\n2:2. And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure\nJerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great\nthe length thereof.\n\n2:3. And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel\nwent out to meet him.\n\n2:4. And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem\nshall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and\nof the beasts in the midst thereof.\n\nJerusalem shall be inhabited without walls... This must be understood of\nthe spiritual Jerusalem, the church of Christ.\n\n2:5. And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about:\nand I will be in glory in the midst thereof.\n\n2:6. O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I\nhave scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.\n\n2:7. O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:\n\n2:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me\nto the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth\nthe apple of my eye:\n\n2:9. For behold, I lift up my hand upon them, and they shall be a prey\nto those that served them: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts\nsent me.\n\n2:10. Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of Sion: for behold I come,\nand I will dwell in the midst of thee: saith the Lord.\n\n2:11. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they\nshall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: and thou\nshalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.\n\n2:12. And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion in the sanctified\nland: and he shall yet choose Jerusalem.\n\n2:13. Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is\nrisen up out of his holy habitation.\n\nZacharias Chapter 3\n\nIn a vision Satan appeareth accusing the high priest. He is cleansed\nfrom his sins. Christ is promised, and great fruit from his passion.\n\n3:1. And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the\nangel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his\nadversary.\n\nJesus... Alias, Josue, the son of Josedec, the high priest of that time.\n\n3:2. And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the\nLord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out\nof the fire?\n\n3:3. And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the\nface of the angel.\n\nWith filthy garments... Negligences and sins.\n\n3:4. Who answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take\naway the filthy garments from him. And he said to him: Behold I have\ntaken away thy iniquity, and have clothed thee with change of garments.\n\n3:5. And he said: Put a clean mitre upon his head: and they put a clean\nmitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the angel of the\nLord stood.\n\n3:6. And the angel of the Lord protested to Jesus, saying:\n\n3:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and\nkeep my charge, thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my\ncourts, and I will give thee some of them that are now present here to\nwalk with thee.\n\nI will give thee, etc... Angels to attend and assist thee.\n\n3:8. Hear, O Jesus thou high priest, thou and thy friends that dwell\nbefore thee, for they are portending men: for behold, I WILL BRING MY\nSERVANT THE ORIENT.\n\nPortending men... That is, men, who by words and actions are to foreshew\nwonders that are to come.-Ibid. My servant the Orient... Christ, who\naccording to his humanity is the servant of God, is called the Orient\nfrom his rising like the sun in the east to enlighten the world.\n\n3:9. For behold the stone that I have laid before Jesus: upon one stone\nthere are seven eyes: behold I will grave the graving thereof, saith the\nLord of hosts: and I will take away the iniquity of that land in one\nday.\n\nThe stone... Another emblem of Christ, the rock, foundation, and corner\nstone of his church.-Ibid. Seven eyes... The manifold providence of\nChrist over his church, or the seven gifts of the spirit of God.-Ibid.\nOne day... Viz., the day of the passion of Christ, the source of all our\ngood: when this precious stone shall be graved, that is, cut and\npierced, with whips, thorns, nails, and spear.\n\n3:10. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, every man shall call his\nfriend under the vine and under the fig tree.\n\nZacharias Chapter 4\n\nThe vision of the golden candlestick and seven lamps, and of the two\nolive trees.\n\n4:1. And the angel that spoke in me came again: and he waked me, as a\nman that is wakened out of his sleep.\n\n4:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and\nbehold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and\nthe seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that\nwere upon the top thereof.\n\nA candlestick, etc... The temple of God that was then in building; and\nin a more sublime sense, the church of Christ.\n\n4:3. And two olive trees over it: one upon the right side of the lamp,\nand the other upon the left side thereof.\n\n4:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying:\nWhat are these things, my lord?\n\n4:5. And the angel that spoke in me answered, and said to me: Knowest\nthou not what these things are? And I said: No, my lord.\n\n4:6. And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the\nLord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my\nspirit, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nTo Zorobabel... This vision was in favour of Zorobabel: to assure him of\nsuccess in the building of the temple, which he had begun, signified by\nthe candlestick; the lamp of which, without any other industry, was\nsupplied with oil, dropping from the two olive trees, and distributed by\nthe seven funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights.\n\n4:7. Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zorobabel? thou shalt become\na plain: and he shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give equal\ngrace to the grace thereof.\n\nGreat mountain... So he calls the opposition made by the enemies of\nGod's people; which nevertheless, without an army or might on their\nside, was quashed by divine providence.-Ibid. Shall give equal grace,\netc... Shall add grace to grace, or beauty to beauty.\n\n4:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n4:9. The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house, and\nhis hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts\nhath sent me to you.\n\n4:10. For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and\nshall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel.  These are the seven\neyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the whole earth.\n\nLittle days... That is, these small and feeble beginnings of the temple\nof God.-Ibid. The tin plummet... Literally, the stone of tin. He means\nthe builder's plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold in his hand for the\nfinishing the building.-Ibid. The seven eyes... The providence of God,\nthat oversees and orders all things.\n\n4:11. And I answered, and said to him: What are these two olive trees\nupon the right side of the candlestick, and upon the left side thereof?\n\n4:12. And I answered again, and said to him: What are the two olive\nbranches, that are by the two golden beaks, in which are the funnels of\ngold?\n\n4:13. And he spoke to me, saying: Knowest thou not what these are? And I\nsaid: No, my lord.\n\n4:14. And he said: These are two sons of oil who stand before the Lord\nof the whole earth.\n\nTwo sons of oil... That is, the two anointed ones of the Lord; viz.,\nJesus the high priest, and Zorobabel the prince.\n\nZacharias Chapter 5\n\nThe vision of the flying volume, and of the woman in the vessel.\n\n5:1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume\nflying.\n\nA volume... That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient\nbooks, which, from being rolled up, were called volumes.\n\n5:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume\nflying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten\ncubits.\n\n5:3. And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face\nof the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and\nevery one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.\n\n5:4. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come\nto the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely\nby my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall\nconsume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.\n\n5:5. And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift\nup thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.\n\n5:6. And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth.\nAnd he said: This is their eye in all the earth.\n\nThis is their eye... This is what they fix their eye upon: or this is a\nresemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners.\n\n5:7. And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting\nin the midst of the vessel.\n\n5:8. And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of\nthe vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.\n\n5:9. And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two\nwomen, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of\na kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven.\n\n5:10. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry\nthe vessel?\n\n5:11. And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land of\nSennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own\nbasis.\n\nThe land of Sennaar... Where Babel or Babylon was built, Gen. 11., where\nnote, that Babylon in holy writ is often taken for the city of the\ndevil: that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked: as Jerusalem\nis taken for the city and people of God.\n\nZacharias Chapter 6\n\nThe vision of the four chariots. Crowns are ordered for Jesus the high\npriest, as a type of Christ.\n\n6:1. And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four\nchariots came out from the midst of two mountains: and the mountains\nwere mountains of brass.\n\nFour chariots... The four great empires of the Chaldeans, Persians,\nGrecians, and Romans. Or perhaps by the fourth chariot are represented\nthe kings of Egypt and of Asia, the descendants of Ptolemeus and\nSeleucus.\n\n6:2. In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot\nblack horses.\n\n6:3. And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot\ngrisled horses, and strong ones.\n\n6:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me: What are\nthese, my lord?\n\n6:5. And the angel answered, and said to me: These are the four winds of\nthe heaven, which go forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.\n\n6:6. That in which were the black horses went forth into the land of the\nnorth, and the white went forth after them: and the grisled went forth\nto the land the south.\n\nThe land of the north... So Babylon is called; because it lay to the\nnorth in respect of Jerusalem. The black horses, that is, the Medes and\nPersians: and after them Alexander and his Greeks, signified by the\nwhite horses, went thither because they conquered Babylon, executed upon\nit the judgments of God, which is signified, ver. 8, by the expression\nof quieting his spirit.-Ibid. The land of the south... Egypt, which lay\nto the south of Jerusalem, and was occupied first by Ptolemeus, and then\nby the Romans.\n\n6:7. And they that were most strong, went out, and sought to go, and to\nrun to and fro through all the earth. And he said: Go, walk throughout\nthe earth: and they walked throughout the earth.\n\n6:8. And he called me, and spoke to me, saying: Behold they that go\nforth into the land of the north, have quieted my spirit in the land of\nthe north.\n\n6:9. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n6:10. Take of them of the captivity, of Holdai, and of Tobias, and of\nIdaias; thou shalt come in that day, a shalt go into the house of\nJosias, the son of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.\n\n6:11. And thou shalt take gold and silver: and shalt make crowns, and\nthou shalt set them on the head of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high\npriest.\n\n6:12. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,\nsaying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he\nspring up, a shall build a temple to the Lord.\n\n6:13. Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the\nglory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest\nupon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.\n\nBetween them both... That is, he shall unite in himself the two offices\nor dignities of king and priest.\n\n6:14. And the crowns shall be to Helem, and Tobias, and Idaias, and to\nHem, the son of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.\n\n6:15. And they that are far off, shall come and shall build in the\ntemple of the Lord: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to\nyou. But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will hear the voice of\nthe Lord your God.\n\nZacharias Chapter 7\n\nThe people inquire concerning fasting: they are admonished to fast from\nsin.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the\nword of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth\nmonth, which is Casleu.\n\n7:2. When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent\nto the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:\n\n7:3. To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to\nthe prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify\nmyself as I have now done for many years?\n\nThe fifth month... They fasted on the tenth day of the fifth month;\nbecause on that day the temple was burnt. Therefore they inquire whether\nthey are to continue the fast, after the temple is rebuilt. See this\nquery answered in the 19th verse of the following chapter.\n\n7:4. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n7:5. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying:\nWhen you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for\nthese seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?\n\n7:6. And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and\ndrink for yourselves?\n\n7:7. Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the\nformer prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy,\nboth itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants\ntowards the south, and in the plain?\n\n7:8. And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:\n\n7:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and\nshew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.\n\n7:10. And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger,\nand the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his\nbrother.\n\n7:11. But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to\ndepart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.\n\n7:12. And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should\nhear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit\nby the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from\nLord of hosts.\n\n7:13. And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall\nthey cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n7:14. And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not:\nand the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed\nthrough or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a\nwilderness.\n\nZacharias Chapter 8\n\nJoyful promises to Jerusalem: fully verified in the church of Christ.\n\n8:1. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n8:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a\ngreat jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for\nher.\n\n8:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will\ndwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city\nof truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified\nmountain.\n\n8:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women\ndwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his\nhand through multitude of days.\n\n8:5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls,\nplaying in the streets thereo.\n\n8:6. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the\nremnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith\nthe Lord of hosts?\n\n8:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the\nland of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.\n\n8:8. And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of\nJerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth\nand in justice.\n\n8:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you\nthat hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, in the\nday that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the temple\nmight be built.\n\n8:10. For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there\nhire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him\nthat went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every\none against his neighbour.\n\n8:11. But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people according\nto the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n8:12. But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her\nfruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give\ntheir dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all\nthese things.\n\n8:13. And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the\nGentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and\nyou shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strengthened.\n\n8:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you,\nwhen your fathers had provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord,\n\n8:15. And I had no mercy: so turning again I have thought in these days\nto do good to the house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not.\n\n8:16. These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth\nevery one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your\ngates.\n\n8:17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his\nfriend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I\nhate, saith the Lord.\n\n8:18. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n8:19. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and\nthe fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the\ntenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great\nsolemnities: only love ye truth and peace.\n\nThe fast of the fourth month, etc... They fasted, on the ninth day of\nthe fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem,\nJer. 52.6. On the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the\ntemple was burnt, Jer. 52.12. On the third day of the seventh month, for\nthe murder of Godolias, Jer. 41.2. And on the tenth day of the tenth\nmonth, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem, 4\nKings 25.1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for the future,\nshall be changed, as is here promised, into joyful solemnities.\n\n8:20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many\ncities,\n\n8:21. And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and\nentreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also\nwill go.\n\n8:22. And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord\nof hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.\n\n8:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of\nall languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the\nskirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have\nheard that God is with you.\n\nTen men, etc... Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish\nreligion before Christ: but many more were converted to Christ by the\napostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation.\n\nZacharias Chapter 9\n\nGod will defend his church, and bring over even her enemies to the\nfaith. The meek coming of Christ, to bring peace, to deliver the\ncaptives by his blood, and to give us all good things.\n\n9:1. The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of\nDamascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of\nIsrael is the Lord's.\n\nHadrach... Syria.\n\n9:2. Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they\nhave taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.\n\n9:3. And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together\nsilver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.\n\n9:4. Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in\nthe sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.\n\n9:5. Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very\nsorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king\nshall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.\n\n9:6. And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride\nof the Philistines.\n\n9:7. And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his\nabominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our\nGod, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.\n\nHis blood... It is spoken of the Philistines, and particularly of\nAzotus, (where the temple of Dagon was,) and contains a prophecy of the\nconversion of that people from their bloody sacrifices and abominations\nto the worship of the true God.\n\n9:8. And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going\nand returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for\nnow I have seen with my eyes.\n\nThat serve me in war... Viz., the Machabees.\n\n9:9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of\nJerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he\nis poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.\n\n9:10. And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out\nof Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak\npeace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from\nthe rivers even to the end of the earth.\n\n9:11. Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy\nprisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.\n\n9:12. Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render\nthee double as I declare today.\n\n9:13. Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim:\nand I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I\nwill make thee as the sword of the mighty.\n\nThy sons, O Sion, etc... Viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way,\nconquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ.\n\n9:14. And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go\nforth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in\nthe whirlwind of the south.\n\n9:15. The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devonr, and\nsubdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be\ninebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and\nas the horns of the altar.\n\n9:16. And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of\nhis people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.\n\nHoly stones... The apostles, who shall be as pillars and monuments in\nthe church.\n\n9:17. For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful\nthing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?\n\nThe corn, etc... His most excellent gift is the blessed Eucharist,\ncalled here The corn, that is, the bread of the elect, and the wine\nspringing forth virgins; that is, maketh virgins to bud, or spring\nforth, as it were, like flowers among thorns; because it has a wonderful\nefficacy to give and preserve purity.\n\nZacharias Chapter 10\n\nGod is to be sought to, and not idols. The victories of his church,\nwhich shall arise originally from the Jewish nation.\n\n10:1. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will\nmake snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in\nthe field.\n\n10:2. For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners\nhave seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in\nvain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted,\nbecause they have no shepherd.\n\n10:3. My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit upon\nthe buck goats: for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house\nof Juda, and hath made them as the horse of his glory in the battle.\n\n10:4. Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of\nhim the bow of battle, out of him ever exacter together.\n\n10:5. And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of\nthe ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them,\nand the riders of horses shall be confounded.\n\n10:6. And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of\nJoseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on\nthem: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for I\nam the Lord their God, and will hear them.\n\n10:7. And they shall be as the valiant men of Ephraim, and their heart\nshall rejoice as through wine: and their children shall see, and shall\nrejoice, and their heart shall be joyful in the Lord.\n\n10:8. I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because\nI have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied\nbefore.\n\n10:9. And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall\nremember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.\n\n\n10:10. And I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt, and I will\ngather them from among the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land of\nGalaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be found for them.\n\n10:11. And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike\nthe waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be\nconfounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre\nof Egypt shall depart.\n\n10:12. I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his\nname, saith the Lord.\n\nZacharias Chapter 11\n\nThe destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. God's dealings with the\nJews, and their reprobation.\n\n11:1. Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.\n\nO Libanus... So Jerusalem, and more particularly the temple, is called\nby the prophets, from its height, and from its being built of the cedars\nof Libanus.-Ibid. Thy cedars... Thy princes and chief men.\n\n11:2. Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are\nlaid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut\ndown.\n\n11:3. The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is\nlaid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of\nthe Jordan is spoiled.\n\n11:4. Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,\n\n11:5. Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold\nthem, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their\nshepherds spared them not.\n\n11:6. And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the\nLord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's\nhand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land,\nand I will not deliver it out of their hand.\n\nEvery one into his neighbour's hand, etc... This alludes to the last\nsiege of Jerusalem, in which the different factions of the Jews\ndestroyed one another; and they that remained fell into the hands of\ntheir king, that is, of the Roman emperor, of whom they had said, John\n19.15, we have no king but Caesar.\n\n11:7. And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the\nflock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I\ncalled a Cord, and I fed the flock.\n\nTwo rods... Or shepherd's staves, meaning the different ways of God's\ndealing with his people; the one, by sweet means, called the rod of\nBeauty: the other, by bands and punishments, called the Cord. And where\nboth these rods are made of no use or effect by the obstinacy of\nsinners, the rods are broken, and such sinners are given up to a\nreprobate sense, as the Jews were.\n\n11:8. And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was\nstraitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.\n\nThree shepherds in one month... That is, in a very short time. By these\nthree shepherds probably are meant the latter princes and high priests\nof the Jews, whose reign was short.\n\n11:9. And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and\nthat which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every\none the flesh of his neighbour.\n\n11:10. And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to\nmake void my covenant, which I had made with all people.\n\n11:11. And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock\nthat keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord.\n\n11:12. And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my\nwages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces\nof silver.\n\n11:13. And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome\nprice, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of\nsilver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.\n\nThe statuary... The Hebrew word signifies also a potter.\n\n11:14. And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might\nbreak the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.\n\n11:15. And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a\nfoolish shepherd.\n\nA foolish shepherd... This was to represent the foolish, that is, the\nwicked princes and priests that should rule the people, before their\nutter desolation.\n\n11:16. For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not\nvisit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is\nbroken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of\nthe fat ones, and break their hoofs.\n\n11:17. O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon\nhis arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his\nright eye shall be utterly darkened.\n\nZacharias Chapter 12\n\nGod shall protect his church against her persecutors. The mourning of\nJerusalem.\n\n12:1. The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the\nLord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of\nthe earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:\n\n12:2. Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the\npeople round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against\nJerusalem.\n\nA lintel of surfeiting... That is, a door into which they shall seek to\nenter, to glut themselves with blood; but they shall stumble, and fall\nlike men stupefied with wine. It seems to allude to the times of\nAntiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees.\n\n12:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem\na burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be\nrent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered\ntogether against her.\n\n12:4. In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike every horse with\nastonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon\nthe house of Juda, and will strike every horse of the nations with\nblindness.\n\n12:5. And the governors of Juda shall say in their heart: Let the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts,\ntheir God.\n\n12:6. In that day I will make the governors of Juda like a furnace of\nfire amongst wood, and as a firebrand amongst hay: and they shall devour\nall the people round about, to the right hand, and to the left: and\nJerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place in Jerusalem.\n\n12:7. And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Jada, as in the\nbeginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda.\n\n12:8. In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\nand he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and\nthe house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their\nsight.\n\n12:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy\nall the nations that come against Jerusalem.\n\n12:10. And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they\nshall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him\nas one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the\nmanner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.\n\n12:11. In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like\nthe lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.\n\nAdadremmon... A place near Mageddon, where the good king Josias was\nslain, and much lamented by his people.\n\n12:12. And the land shall mourn: families and families apart: the\nfamilies of the house of David apart, and their women apart:\n\n12:13. The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women apart:\nthe families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart: the\nfamilies of Semei apart, and their women apart.\n\n12:14. All the rest of the families, families and families apart, and\ntheir women apart.\n\nZacharias Chapter 13\n\nThe fountain of Christ. Idols and false prophets shall be extirpated:\nChrist shall suffer: his people shall be tried by fire.\n\n13:1. In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David,\nand to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and\nof the unclean woman.\n\n13:2. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,\nthat I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall\nbe remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the\nunclean spirit out of the earth.\n\n13:3. And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any\nmore, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall\nsay to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the\nname of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall\nthrust him through, when he shall prophesy.\n\n13:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be\nconfounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither\nshall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:\n\n13:5. But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is\nmy example from my youth.\n\n13:6. And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of\nthy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of\nthem that loved me.  13:7. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and\nagainst the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the\nshepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to\nthe little ones.\n\n13:8. And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in\nit shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be\nleft therein.\n\n13:9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine\nthem as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They\nshall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my\npeople: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.\n\nZacharias Chapter 14\n\nAfter the persecutions of the church shall follow great prosperity.\nPersecutors shall be punished: so shall all that will not serve God in\nhis church.\n\n14:1. Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be\ndivided in the midst of thee.\n\n14:2. And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city\nshall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be\ndefiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the\nrest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city.\n\nI will gather, etc... This seems to be a prophecy of what was done by\nAntiochus.\n\n14:3. Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those\nnations, as when he fought in the day of battle.\n\n14:4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,\nwhich is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of\nOlives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the\nwest with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be\nseparated to the north, and half thereof to the south.\n\n14:5. And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the\nvalley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall\nflee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias\nking of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with\nhim.\n\n14:6. And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no\nlight, but cold and frost.\n\nNo light... Viz., in that dismal time of persecution of Antiochus, when\nit was neither day nor night: (ver. 7) because they neither had the\ncomfortable light of the day, nor the repose of the night.\n\n14:7. And there shall be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day\nnor night: and in the time of the evening there shall be light:\n\nIn the time of the evening there shall be light... An unexpected light\nshall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be\nat the worst.\n\n14:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go\nout from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to\nthe last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.\n\nLiving waters... Viz., the gospel of Christ.\n\n14:9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there\nshall be one Lord, and his name shall be one.\n\n14:10. And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill\nto Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall\ndwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of\nthe former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower\nof Hananeel even to the king's winepresses.\n\nAll the land shall return, etc... This, in some measure, was verified by\nthe means of the Machabees: but is rather to be taken in a spiritual\nsense, as relating to the propagation of the church, and kingdom of\nChrist, the true Jerusalem, which alone shall never fall under the\nanathema of destruction, or God's curse.\n\n14:11. And people shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more an\nanathema: but Jerusalem shall sit secure.\n\n14:12. And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall strike all\nnations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one shall\nconsume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall\nconsume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in\ntheir mouth.\n\nThe flesh of every one shall consume, etc... Such judgments as these\nhave often fallen upon the persecutors of God's church, as appears by\nmany instances in history.\n\n14:13. In that day there shall be a great tumult from the Lord among\nthem: and a man shall take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall\nbe clasped upon his neighbour's hand.\n\n14:14. And even Juda shall fight against Jerusalem: and the riches of\nall nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,\nand garments in great abundance.\n\nEven Juda, etc... The carnal Jews, and other false brothers, shall join\nin persecuting the church.\n\n14:15. And the destruction of the horse, and of the mule, and of the\ncamel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts, that shall be in those\ntents, shall be like this destruction.\n\nShall be like this destruction... That is, the beasts shall be destroyed\nas well as the men: the common soldiers as well as their leaders.\n\n14:16. And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against\nJerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of\nhosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.\n\nThey that shall be left, etc... That is, many of them that persecuted\nthe church shall be converted to its faith and communion.-Ibid. To keep\nthe feast of tabernacles... This feast was kept by the Jews in memory of\ntheir sojourning forty years in the desert, in their way to the land of\npromise. And in the spiritual sense is duly kept by all such Christians\nas in their earthly pilgrimage are continually advancing toward their\ntrue home, the heavenly Jerusalem; by the help of the sacraments and\nsacrifice of the church. And they that neglect this must not look for\nthe kind showers of divine grace, to give fruitfulness to their souls.\n\n14:17. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall not go up of the\nfamilies of the land to Jerusalem, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts,\nthere shall be no rain upon them.\n\n14:18. And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it\nbe upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will\nstrike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.\n\n14:19. This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the sin of all nations,\nthat will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.\n\n14:20. In that day that which is upon the bridle of the horse shall be\nholy to the Lord: and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as\nthe phials before the altar.\n\nThat which is upon the bridle, etc... The golden ornaments of the\nbridles, etc., shall be turned into offerings in the house of God. And\nthere shall be an abundance of caldrons and phials for the sacrifices of\nthe temple; by which is meant, under a figure, the great resort there\nshall be to the temple, that is, to the church of Christ, and her\nsacrifice.\n\n14:21. And every caldron in Jerusalem and Juda shall be sanctified to\nthe Lord of hosts: and all that sacrifice shall come, and take of them,\nand shall seethe in them: and the merchant shall be no more in the house\nof the Lord of hosts in that day.\n\nThe merchant shall be no more, etc... Or, as some render it, The\nChanaanite shall be no more, etc., that is, the profane and unbelievers\nshall have no title to be in the house of the Lord. Or there shall be no\noccasion for buyers or sellers of oxen, or sheep, or doves, in the house\nof God, such as Jesus Christ cast out of the temple.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":8962}