Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 4:10

10 For who hath despised the day of small things ? for they shall rejoyce, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, with those seven , they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

And now for those that despised small beginnings, who they are is well known, and to them I say, and promise what they expected not.

Of which Haggai 2.3.

Or but, not withstanding they so much undervalued the meanness of the second Temple, yet when finisht they shall with many others rejoice in it.

The perp[illegible: 1 letter]ndi[illegible: 1 letter]ular with which Zer[illegible: 2 letters]babel shall try the finished work, or the work near finishing.

In subordination to, and co-w[illegible: 1 letter]rking wi[illegible: 1 letter]h the Divine Providence exprest emblematically by the seven [illegible: 1 span] w[illegible: 1 letter]re on that stone, of which chap. 3.[illegible: 1 letter]. Though [illegible: 1 word] were prudent in managing all the affairs of Jews, Ierusa[illegible: 1 letter]em, and the Temple, yet not his prudence, but infinite wisdom of God gave success, and when the success app[illegible: 1 letter]ars in the finishing of the Temple then shall it be acknowledged an admi[illegible: 1 letter]able work of the Divine Wisdom, and the Jews shall conf[illegible: 2 letters]s th[illegible: 2 letters] the eyes of the Lord which run to, and fro through the whole [illegible: 1 word] have been upon them in this work for good, and that God hath shew'd himself on their behalf.

Marginal references: Or, sith the seven eyes of the LORD shall rejoice.; Heb. stone of tin.; 2 Chron. 16.9. Prov. 15.3.