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Zechariah 3:8

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are a wondrous sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

All Commentaries on Zechariah 3:8 Go To Zechariah 3

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Portending men. That is, men who by words and actions are to foreshew wonders that are to come; (Challoner) or rather they require prodigies before they will take courage to build the temple; or they understand how to explain such things. (Calmet) Orient; Christ, who according to his humanity is the servant of God, is called the Orient, from his rising like the sun in the east to enlighten the world. (Challoner) St. Luke explains this of Christ, (Worthington) recording the words of Zacharias. (Haydock) Christ's birth was most pure. He gave light to the world. Some would explain this of Zorobabel; but as he was already present, it would seem more applicable to Nehemias. Yet both were only figures of Christ, and could not efface the iniquity of Juda The Messias is styled the Bud, chap. vi. 12., and Isaias iv. 2. (Calmet) Tsemach signifies either "the bud or the orient. "(Haydock)

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