The vision of the large flying roll, with the angel's explanation, Zac 5:1-4. The vision of the ephah, and of the woman sitting on it, with the signification, Zac 5:5-11.
1De nuevo alcé mis ojos y miré, y he aquí un rollo que volaba.
2Y me dijo: ¿Qué ves? Y respondí: Veo un rollo que vuela, de veinte codos de largo, y diez codos de ancho.
3Entonces me dijo: Esta es la maldición que sale sobre la faz de toda la tierra; porque todo aquel que hurta (como está de un lado del rollo) será destruido; y todo aquel que jura falsamente (como está del otro lado del rollo) será destruido.
4Yo la he hecho salir, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y vendrá a la casa del ladrón, y a la casa del que jura falsamente en mi nombre; y permanecerá en medio de su casa y la consumirá, con sus maderas y sus piedras.
5Y salió aquel ángel que hablaba conmigo, y me dijo: Alza ahora tus ojos, y mira qué es esto que sale.
6Y dije: ¿Qué es? Y él dijo: Este es un efa que sale. Además dijo: Esta es la iniquidad de ellos en toda la tierra.
7Y he aquí, levantaron la tapa de plomo, y una mujer estaba sentada en medio de aquel efa.
8Y él dijo: Esta es la Maldad; y la echó dentro del efa, y echó la masa de plomo en la boca del efa.
9Alcé luego mis ojos, y miré, y he aquí dos mujeres que salían, y traían viento en sus alas, y tenían alas como de cigüeña, y alzaron el efa entre la tierra y los cielos.
10Dije al ángel que hablaba conmigo: ¿A dónde llevan el efa?
11Y él me respondió: Para que le sea edificada casa en tierra de Sinar; y cuando esté preparada lo pondrán sobre su base.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. Behold a flying roll - This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expa…
Behold a flying roll - This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expanded, and flying. Itself was the catalogue of the crimes of the people, and the punishment threatened by the Lord. Some think the crimes were those of the Jews; others, those of the Chaldeans. The roll is mentioned in allusion to those large rolls on which the Jews write the Pentateuch. One now lying before me is one hundred and fifty-three feet long, by twenty-one inches wide, written on fine brown Basle goat-skin; some time since brought from Jerusalem, supposed to be four hundred years old.
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II. Every one that stealeth - and every one that sweareth - It seems that the roll was written both o…
Every one that stealeth - and every one that sweareth - It seems that the roll was written both on the front and back: stealing and swearing are supposed to be two general heads of crimes; the former, comprising sins against men; the latter, sins against God. It is supposed that the roll contained the sins and punishments of the Chaldeans.
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III. Into the house of him - Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public plunderer,…
Into the house of him - Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public plunderer, and a most glaring idolater.
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IV. This is an ephah that goeth forth - This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The …
This is an ephah that goeth forth - This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The woman in the ephah is supposed to represent Judea, which shall be visited for its sins; the talent of lead on the ephah, within which the woman was enclosed, the wrath of God, bending down this culprit nation, in the measure of its sins; for the angel said, "This is wickedness;" that is, the woman represents the mass of iniquity of this nation.
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V. There came out two women - As the one woman represented the impiety of the Jewish nation; so thes…
There came out two women - As the one woman represented the impiety of the Jewish nation; so these two women who were to carry the ephah, in which the woman Iniquity was shut up, under the weight of a talent of lead, may mean the desperate Unbelief of the Jews in rejecting the Messiah; and that Impiety, or universal corruption of manners, which was the consequence of their unbelief, and brought down the wrath of God upon them. The strong wings, like those of a stork, may point out the power and swiftness with which Judea was carried on to fill up the measure of her iniquity, and to meet the punishment which she deserved.
Between the earth and the heaven - Sins against God and Man, sins which heaven and earth contemplated with horror.
Or the Babylonians and Romans may be intended by the two women who carried the Jewish ephah to its final punishment. The Chaldeans ruined Judea before the advent of our Lord; the Romans, shortly after.
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VI. To build it a house in the land of Shinar - The land of Shinar means Babylon; and Babylon means R…
To build it a house in the land of Shinar - The land of Shinar means Babylon; and Babylon means Rome, in the Apocalypse. The building the house for the woman imprisoned in the ephah may signify, that there should be a long captivity under the Romans, as there was under that of Shinar or Babylon, by which Rome may here be represented. That house remains to the present day: the Jewish woman is still in the ephah; it is set on its own base - continues still as a distinct nation; and the talent of lead - God's displeasure - is still on the top. O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel!
Antiguo Testamento
Zechariah — Capítulo 5
The vision of the large flying roll, with the angel's explanation, Zac 5:1-4. The vision of the ephah, and of the woman sitting on it, with the signification, Zac 5:5-11.
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1De nuevo alcé mis ojos y miré, y he aquí un rollo que volaba.
2Y me dijo: ¿Qué ves? Y respondí: Veo un rollo que vuela, de veinte codos de largo, y diez codos de ancho.
3Entonces me dijo: Esta es la maldición que sale sobre la faz de toda la tierra; porque todo aquel que hurta (como está de un lado del rollo) será destruido; y todo aquel que jura falsamente (como está del otro lado del rollo) será destruido.
4Yo la he hecho salir, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y vendrá a la casa del ladrón, y a la casa del que jura falsamente en mi nombre; y permanecerá en medio de su casa y la consumirá, con sus maderas y sus piedras.
5Y salió aquel ángel que hablaba conmigo, y me dijo: Alza ahora tus ojos, y mira qué es esto que sale.
6Y dije: ¿Qué es? Y él dijo: Este es un efa que sale. Además dijo: Esta es la iniquidad de ellos en toda la tierra.
7Y he aquí, levantaron la tapa de plomo, y una mujer estaba sentada en medio de aquel efa.
8Y él dijo: Esta es la Maldad; y la echó dentro del efa, y echó la masa de plomo en la boca del efa.
9Alcé luego mis ojos, y miré, y he aquí dos mujeres que salían, y traían viento en sus alas, y tenían alas como de cigüeña, y alzaron el efa entre la tierra y los cielos.
10Dije al ángel que hablaba conmigo: ¿A dónde llevan el efa?
11Y él me respondió: Para que le sea edificada casa en tierra de Sinar; y cuando esté preparada lo pondrán sobre su base.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 1
I. Behold a flying roll - This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expa…
Versículo 3
II. Every one that stealeth - and every one that sweareth - It seems that the roll was written both o…
Versículo 4
III. Into the house of him - Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public plunderer,…
Versículo 6
IV. This is an ephah that goeth forth - This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The …
Versículo 9
V. There came out two women - As the one woman represented the impiety of the Jewish nation; so thes…
Versículo 11
VI. To build it a house in the land of Shinar - The land of Shinar means Babylon; and Babylon means R…