Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 7:12

12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law , and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets : therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts .

Though the heart of it self is far from taking impressions, and receiving kindly the Law of God, yet these desperate sinners think 'tis too pliable, they study how to harden it, and this was the fault of many of them.

The hardest of stones.

Which was peremptorily required of them, and they as peremptorily resolved against it.

Of God by Moses, of whom they boasted, whilst they despised his Law.

Counsels and Commands▪

Which the Lord of Hosts their God spake, nay though they knew he spake they would not hear.

By his Holy Spirit in clear evidences, piercing convictions, powerful operation, and dreadful threatnings; yet they opposed and resisted, and sinned against his Spirit.

All of them acted by the same Spirit, and pressing them to the same duties, and foretelling the same miseries, and promising the same blessings, but all would not prevail.

For this great obstinacy,

which consumed the whole Land, and burnt against them 70 years together in Babylon.

In all which the hand of the Lord was most evidently seen, dealing to them according to their ways. Such were your Fathers, such their ways, such their sufferings, all which is well known to you who start such queries, and mean while runaway from the great commands of the Law.

Marginal references: Heb. by the hand of.