Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 1:14

14 So the angel that communed with me , said unto me, Cry thou , saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts , I am jealous for Jerusalem , and for Zion with a great jealousie .

i. e. When the Father had heard the Son and answered him; this is spoken to our apprehension, and so must be understood.

Of the Covenant, the Lord Christ.

Vid. ver. 13. let. k.

Now publish what thou hearest, preach by commission from me, and assure my poor, captive, impoverish'd Church, that God, my God and her God, will do good for her.

Publish what God, Lord of hosts, and Father of his People, promised to do for them.

I have been jealous against, but now am jealous for Ierusalem; my love is now heightened to a very high degree of compassion for my People, and of Indignation against her Enemies and Oppressors.

The City called by my name.

Where my Temple stood; those Gates of Zion, which I loved more than all the dwellings of Iacob.

That Zeal I bear, and now will shew for them is great, to a wonder; it is the Zeal of a God who infinitely loves and pitieth his people.

Marginal references: chap. 8.2.