Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 11:9

9 Then said I, I will not feed you : that that dieth, let it die : and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off : and let the rest eat, every one the flesh of another .

After that time of his patient, and vigilant fe[illegible: 1 letter]ding the Flock, and after his cutting off the three unfaithful Sheph[illegible: 1 letter]r[illegible: 2 letters] and after the ill resentment he met with for it; when he deserved love, and thanks for it he is repaid with disdain, and hatred, by the people, as well as by the Shepherds, when he saw all this, Then &c. Thus they rejected Christ, the true Shepherd.

Next he rejecteth them, he will no more take care of them, or provide for them.

That which is ready to dye, and will not be cured, but hath rejected the Shepherds love, and skill, let it die, 'tis like that if ye believe not, ye shall dye in y[illegible: 2 letters]r sins.

Either the same repeated to confirm, and affect them more, or else it intends to leave them naked, and unguarded to their Enemy to cut them off by the sword, or Famine, &c.

Eitheir live to be besieged till hunger and famine make the living eat the dead, or cruelly kill that they may eat as threatned, Deut. 28.52. to 58. or else by seditions and bloody intestine quarrels destroy each other, all which happened to them in the siege of Ierusalem by the Romans.

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