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Zechariah 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary on Zechariah 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

My words. The words that God put into the mouths of the prophets (; ). Statutes, usually applied to the Law, which the prophets had to announce and enforce; but it may mean "decrees" which God appointed ().

The LXX. inserts "receive ye" to govern these nouns. I commanded. The LXX. adds, ἐν πνεύματὶ μου, "by my inspiration." Did they not take hold of your fathers? Did they not overtake, etc.? Did not their threatened chastisements, however long delayed, reach your fathers in the end?

And they returned; turned, as , . They turned so far as to acknowledge that the threats had been fully accomplished (see ; , etc.). Thought to do; παρατέτακται, "designed, purposed to do" (comp.

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