The Pulpit Commentary — Zechariah — Section 63

unwilling the Jowa were to let the 80.mnritana a.rise in his own country e.nd n1ttion, and take port in the good work, they were quite she.II spring from e. lowly origin to the rently to receive contributions from their highest glory (see Isa.. xi. I ; ltii. 2). He brethren in the di~persion, and likewise she.11 build the temple of the Lord. He from I,eothen kings and princes (see Ezre. should build, not the material temple whose vi. fj, etc.; vii. 15, etc.). Make crowua, foundations Zernbbo.bel hacl lo.id, but the 'l'he prophet wna to get the crowns made spiritual temple of which the tabernacle (comp. Exod. xxv., passim), The plural e.nd the temple of Jernse.lem were only the mny here be used intensively for "a noble type e.nd shadow-that new se.nctuary which crown," as in Job xxxi. 36; or it may signify Ezekiel beheld (xii.), a house not made the two metals of whioh the crown was with hands, the Church of the living God made, two or more wree.tha being intertwined (Eph. ii. 20, etc. ; 1 Pet. ii. 5). to form it. It is carte.in that only one crown Ver. 13.-Even he sha.11 bnild. A forcible was to be me.de, and that the.t was to be repetition of the preceding statement, laying placed on Joshue.'s head. There is no stress on the Person, " He, and no one else, mention of Zerubbn.bel in tho passage; so shall build.'' The clause is omitted by the the plural cannot be taken to intimate that Septuagint. He shall bear the glory. The there was a crown for the high priest and word rendererl "glory" is used to denote a crown for the _princely ruler, as Ewald royal honours here, o.s in 1 Chron. xxix. 25; and Bunsen assert. These critics, followed J er. x.xii. 18; Dan. xi. 21. Messia.h shall by Hitzig and Wellho.usen, supply the he.ve regal majesty. Compare the many passage thus: "on the head of Zerubbabel passages where the glory of Christ is spoken and on the head of Joshua.'' Zerubbabel of; e.g. John i. 14; ii. 11; xvi i. 5; Luke ix. bad no kingly position. Rather, all mention 32; xxiv. 26; Heh. ii. 9; Rev. v. 12, etc. of Zerubbo.bel is expressly excluded, in order Shall sit and role upon his throne ( comp. eh. to denote that in the Person of him whom ix. 10). Thoe Christ says, "All power is Joshua symbolized, tho offices of priest and given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. king were united (PB. ex.). We may note xxviii. 18; see Luke i. 32). And he shall the.t in Rev. xix. 12 Christ is said to have be a Priest upon his throne; Septuagint, on his bead many crowns, by which is meant Ka.l (,,--ra., I,p,/,s '" o•(«•w a.v-roii," There shall'; a diadem composed of many circlets, The be e. Priest npon his right hand." The high priest's mitre is never called a crown. Authorized Version is doubtless correct, The.t which was placed on Joshua's bead o.s the clnuse is intended to declare that was a royal crown, a token of royal dignity, Messiah should, like Melchizedek, combine Ii.ot his own, but his whom he represent.ed- the offices of Priest o.nd King (Ps. ex. ;I,; Cbrist the eternal Priest, the universal King. Heh. v. 6, 10). The counsel of peace shall Ver. 12.-Speak unto him, saying. The be between them both. The two offices or prophet is to explain to Joshua the meaning dignities a.re meant, which are combined of this public act. Behold the Man whose in one person. The Messiah, in his no.me is The BRANCH; literally, behold the two offices of Priest and King, has OM man, BRANCH is his name (see note on common design, to bring peace to his people eh. iii. 8). The Targum has, "Behold the (Isa. ix. 6; Micah v. 5, where see note). Man, Messinh is his name.'' It is pie.in Other interpretations are unsuitable. Thus: that the term-"Bre.nch" or "Shoot" (LXX., There shall be harmony between Joshua. 'APa:roJ..-1,: Vulge.t.e, Oriens) could not be and Zerubbabel; but the two a.re nowhere addressed to Joshua.; indeed, the very form mentioned together in the paragraph, and, of tile sentence, "his no.me," not " thy indeed, the statement would be supertl.uous. no.me," shows this. All who so.w the trans- There shall be perfect concord between the action and heard the words must have two offices; hut o. person is spoken of, not understood that they had reference to the o.n abstraction. Others explain the "counsel "Shoot" of David, the Messiah that was to of peace" to be between Jews and Geutiles, come, to whom was committed the regal and or the returned and the exiled Jews; but priestly dignity. And he shall grow up out neither of these have been named. Pusey of his place; Septuagint, Ka.l ~ ...o,cchw6o takes it to mean, "between the Father and a.~-roii apa.nA<i, "And from beneath him he the Son;" but there is nothing in the shall spring up;" Vulgate, Et subtei· eum passage to lead to this. Knabeubauer orietur; Drake, "He sho.11 sprout forth from expounds it of those who alone a.re mentioned under himself;" Revised Version margin, in the text, Messiah o.nd Joshua, seeing in "A.nd it (or they) shall bud forth under it an exhortation to the latter to m,ike the him;" Hitzig, Ewald, "From under him type correspond to the A.ntitype, so that all there sbo.11 be sprouting." But there is no may see that there is perfect harmony neetl to nlter the rendering of the Authorized between them. Version, which imlioatcs that the shoot shall Ver. 14.-The orowns shall be . . . for a grow from its own soil1 th11t Messiah sho.11 memorial. The crown was to bo to.ken ft 0,u. GO THE BOOK OF ZECHAHIAII. [ cl!t, vt. 1----10,