Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 8:23

23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts , in those days it shall come to pass , that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew , saying, We will go with you : for we have heard that God is with you .

Once more the Lord avows this as his design, so his work as his purpose, so he would effect it,

in the days which shall be the shadow of better; that shall be brought to pass which shall be proportioned to them; thus in the deliverance of the Church from Haman's Conspiracy, many in the Provinces of that mighty Kingdom became Iews; But in the Gospel dayes it shall be more full.

That is, many men,

As Children lay hold on the Nurse, or Mothers skirt to go with them.

No Nation any longer excluded.

To whom the Gospel was first preached, nay, who were the first Preachers of it, as the Apostles, and the seventy Disciples.

We will go, that we may learn your Religion, and be of it.

And now see, believe, and are assured.

The true God, the only true God, whom to know is Life Eternal, is with you, [illegible: 1 letter]ur Gods are vanity▪ a Doctrine of lies, and a pernicious cheat, we will cast them off, and no more trust to Lies.

God is with you only, and we must be with you, and of you, that God the Saviour may be with us too, having hold on you, we will not let you go without us, we seek your God, and our God.

The Lord seems delighted with the reporting what should be done in those dayes of the building up his Ierusalem, and therefore he bids his Prophet report it again, as he doth in this last verse of the chap.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 14.25.