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Rabbi David Kimchi's Commentary Upon the Prophecies of Zechariah, Tr. With Notes and Observations by A. Mccaul
Rabbi David Kimchi's Commentary Upon the Prophecies of Zechariah Tr With Notes and Observations by A Mccaul Author:David General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. (In the English Bible, chap. i. 18.) 1. (i. 18.) " Then I lifted up." -- In this vision he turned to behold another vision, clearer than the first, for he understood from it, that the horns were to push with, as (Deut. xxxiii. 17), " His horns are like the horns of an unicorn; with them he shall push the people together," but he did not understand who these horns were. " Four horns" -- These are the four monarchies, and they are the Babylonian monarchy, the Persian monarchy, and the Grecian monarchy; and so the Targum of Jonathan has it, " the four monarchies." And these four did evil unto Israel, as the angel exclaims, saying,. " which scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." 2. (i. 19.) " And I said which scattered." -- They pushed them even until they scattered them hither and thither; each of the horns in its time did them evil. For the Persian monarchy, although at its beginning it brought them up from their captivity, afterwards did them evil, in the days of Artaxerxes the First, and in the days of Ahasuerus until the second year of Darius. 3. (i. 20.) " And the Lord showed me four workmen," as in Isaiah xliv. 13, " The workmen of wood,"f in order to cuf off the horns, that is to say, each kingdom shall be a carpenter, to cut off the kingdom that preceded it, for the Babylonian monarchy fell by the hand of the Persian, and the Persian monarchy fell by the hand of the Greek. Or the carpenters may signify in a parable, the kings, the supernal princes, who are appointed over the kingdoms ; and our rabbies of blessed memory have interpreted the verse of the days of the Messiah, say...« less