Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 14:8

8 And it shall be in that day , that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem : half of them toward the former sea , and half of them toward the hinder sea : in summer and in winter shall it be .

When the Gospel shall be preached, and the dayes of dark Ceremonies among the Jews, and darker Ignorance, and Idolatry among the Heathens, shall end.

Not only such as springs and fountains afford, living waters in opposition to standing, muddy and dead waters; but such as Ezek. 47.1, 6, 7. give life. The quickning, saving Truths of the Gospel, with all its Ordinances in Purity.

Spread themselves or flow down as currents from good springs.

The Church of Christ▪ the true Jerusalem.

Or Eastern Sea, so far Eastward, as the Sea will give leave, and who knows that Sea.

Or Western Sea. Synechdochically 'tis both East, West, North and South so from Jerusalem, i. e. the Church, the Doctrine of the Gospel is preached abroad, and runs down as doth living water.

Perpetually without intermission or interruption, these waters should never drie away, nor ever lose their healing vertue.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 3.18. [illegible: 1 word] 22.1.; [illegible: 1 paragraph].