Commentary upon the Prophecies of Zechariah

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...is his goodness, and how great is his beauty.”--How good is the fruit of their land, how good is the corn and new wine, which make to grow and bring up such handsome young men and maidens, as shall be at that time. OBSERVATIONS IN DEFENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF CHAPTER IX. As this chapter contains a passage, quoted in the New Testament as having been fulfilled by an event in the history of the Lord Jesus Christ, it requires a special consideration. There are two questions to be considered; First, The general meaning of the prophecy; and Secondly, The applicability to Jesus of Nazareth. 1. The New Testament takes for granted that the subject is Messianic, for it cites the passage to prove the Messiahship of our blessed Lord; but the question here arises, whether the Jews of that day, and in the succeeding times, have admitted that the chapter refers to the Messiah, or whether this is a private interpretation peculiar to the New Testament? The writings of the Jews furnish an unbroken chain of testimony to prove that it was always referred to the Messiah, and that, therefore, the writers of the New Testament did not lay ’ Theodoret says, that the Jews of his time interpreted the passage of. Zerubbabel, but there is no trace of this exposition in any of the Jewish writings. (Hengstenberg Christologie, part ii. p. 14x.) hold of a text, the letter of which seemed to suit their purpose, but applied a passage of Scripture which the Jewish nation ever regarded as a test to try the claims of every pretender to the Messiahship. The book_ of Zohar shows us the opinion of the Jews in the first century of Christianity. Speaking of Abraham’s saddling his ass, it says, “ And on his account it is said of Messiah, Lowly,...