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<div2 id="Zech.i" n="i" next="Zech.ii" prev="Zech" progress="92.88%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Zech.i-p0.1">Zechariah</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Zech.i-Page_1400" n="1400"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Zech.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Zech.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Zech.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Zech.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Zech.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
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<h2 id="Zech.i-p1.4">Z E C H A R I A H.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Zech.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Zech.i-p2.1">This</span> prophet
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was colleague with the prophet Haggai, and a worker together with
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him in forwarding the building of the second temple (<scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezra.5.1" parsed="|Ezra|5|1|0|0" passage="Ezr 5:1">Ezra v. 1</scripRef>); for two are better than
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one. Christ sent forth his disciples two and two. Zechariah began
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to prophesy some time after Haggai. But he continued longer, soared
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higher in visions and revelations, wrote more, and prophesied more
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particularly concerning Christ, than Haggai had done; so <i>the
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last shall be first:</i> the last in time sometimes proves first in
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dignity. He begins with a plain practical sermon, expressive of
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that which was the scope of his prophesying, in the <scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Zech.1.1-Zech.1.5" parsed="|Zech|1|1|1|5" passage="Zec 1:1-5">first five verses</scripRef>; but afterwards,
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to the end of <scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Zech.6.1-Zech.6.15" parsed="|Zech|6|1|6|15" passage="Zec 6:1-15"><i>ch.</i>
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vi.</scripRef>, he relates the visions he saw, and the instructions
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he received immediately from heaven by them. At <scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Zech.7.1-Zech.7.14" parsed="|Zech|7|1|7|14" passage="Zec 7:1-14"><i>ch.</i> vii.</scripRef>, from an enquiry made by
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the Jews concerning fasting, he takes occasion to show them the
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duty of their present day, and to encourage them to hope for God's
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favour, to the end of <scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.6" osisRef="Bible:Zech.8.1-Zech.8.23" parsed="|Zech|8|1|8|23" passage="Zec 8:1-23"><i>ch.</i>
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viii.</scripRef>, after which there are two sermons, which are both
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called <i>burdens of the word of the Lord</i> (one begins with
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<scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.7" osisRef="Bible:Zech.9.1-Zech.9.17" parsed="|Zech|9|1|9|17" passage="Zec 9:1-17"><i>ch.</i> ix.</scripRef>, the other
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with <scripRef id="Zech.i-p2.8" osisRef="Bible:Zech.12.1-Zech.12.14" parsed="|Zech|12|1|12|14" passage="Zec 12:1-14"><i>ch.</i> xii.</scripRef>),
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which probably were preached some time after; the scope of them is
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to reprove for sin, and threaten God's judgments against the
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impenitent, and to encourage those that feared God with assurances
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of the mercy God had in store for his church, and especially of the
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coming of the Messiah and the setting up of his kingdom in the
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world.</p>
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