Zacharias

14 chapters

Chapter summaries

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1. 1The prophet exhorteth the people to convert to God, and not to imitate the evil examples of their fathers. 7. by a vision of an horseman, and divers coloured horses, he prophesieth bitter times. 18. confirming the same by another vision of four horns.
2. 2Under the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the progress of the Church of Christ: 6. by the conversion of some Jews, 8. and many Gentiles.
3. 3In a vision the devil appeareth accusing the high Priest. 4. He is cleansed from his sins. 8. Christ is promised, and great fruit of his passion.
4. 4In a vision of a candlestick and candles, 3. and of two olive trees is prophesied the vocation of the Gentiles, 11. and lastly of the Jews.
5. 5In a vision of a flying book thieves, and swearers are threatened: 5. in another vision is foreshewed that the Jews shall be blind, and obdurate.
6. 6In a vision of chariots is foreshewed the succession of four monarchies. 11. In crowns set on the high priest's head, the Kingdom, and Priesthood of Christ: 15. and the rewards of them that receive him.
7. 7The fast of the fifth and seventh month observed in the captivity, being good, 5. was unperfect, 8. fasting from sin is always more necessary.
8. 8God will give abundance of spiritual benefits to all nations by Christ: 7. to whom shall be converted 13. many Jews, 20. but many more Gentiles.
9. 9The bordering enemies of the Jews shall believe in Christ. 9. who will first come to the Jews in meekness, yet in solemnity riding on an ass: 11. deliver the godly from the lake, 12. give great things to the faithful, 17. and one most excellent thing above the rest.
10. 10The Jews are exhorted to ask good things of God: 4. of their nation cometh the Redeemer of all men, 5. and of the same are the Apostles, spiritual masters of the whole world. 6. The whole nation shall at last be converted.
11. 11Jerusalem shall be again most miserably destroyed, 4. the Jewish nation rejected and dispersed, 12. because Christ was sold by them to the Gentiles for thirty pence. 16. They will receive Antichrist, who shall be finally destroyed.
12. 12The Jews persecuting Christ and his Church, shall be sore afflicted. 6. The Church still prospering: 11. the incredulous shall be condemned.
13. 13In the Church of Christ all idolatry shall be abolished. 6. In his passion his Apostles shall be dispersed, and they and others shall be proved by tribulations.
14. 14Jerusalem shall be destroyed, many Jews slain, the rest made captives: 3. Christ's Church shall flourish, 8. especially in the Gentiles. 12. Persecutors shall be finally punished: 20. and the godly proceed in grace.