John Trapp on Zechariah 12:6

Verſe 6. In that day will I make the governours &c.] This is the third ſimilitude, whereof the ſcripture is full: according to that, I will open my mouth in parables &c. Theſe are of excellent uſe to adorn and explain: and yet they are evermore inferiour to the matter in hand. They are borrowed from things well known, and eaſy to be conceived: as here from an harth of fire among wood; Now we can all tell how great a matter (or wood) a little fire kindleth Iam. 3.5. As when Nero, for his pleaſures ſake ſet Rome on fire, among other ſtately buildings that were quickly burnt down, the Circus or race-yard was one: being about half a mile in length, of an ovall form with rowes of ſeats one above another, capable of at leaſt an hundred and fifty thouſand ſpectatours, without uncivil ſhoulderings. As the fire burneth a wood: and as the flame ſetteth the mountains on fire: So perſecute them with thy tempeſt: and make them afraid with thy ſtorme, ſaith the Church Pſal. 83.14, 15. Thus they pray'd, and thus it is here promiſed: and was accordingly performed in thoſe firſt warrs of the Maccabees: as appeareth in the firſt book of their ſtory,Antiq. lib. 12. and in Joſephus. Diodate and others underſtand this text of the Apoſtles and Evangeliſts, who ſhould fill the world with wars and diſſentions by preaching the Goſpell Luke 12.49. whereby the enemies ſhould be ruinated,Hieron. Remig. Albert. A Lapide. and the church reeſtabliſhed Obad. 18. thorough the ſpirit of judgement and of burning Eſay 4.4. To which purpoſe Chryſoſtome ſaith, that Peter was a man made of fire walking amongſt ſtubble. Baſil was compared to a pillar of fire. Iohn Baptiſt is by our ſaviour ſaid to be a burning and a ſhining lamp. And Eliah (in whoſe ſpirit the Baptiſt came) was a man of that tranſcendent zeale, that to heighten the expreſſion thereof, ſome have legended of him, that when he drew his mothers breaſts, he was ſeen to ſuck in fire.

and Ieruſalem ſhall be inhabited again in her own place] ſc. where ſhe was built at firſt, and not in another neare place, as Tyrus was; and Rome is at this day quite off her old ſeven hills: ſo that a man may look for Rome in Rome. And Ieruſalem that now is hath mount Calvary in the very middeſt of it (which was anciently without the city) and not one hundred families of Iews are therein to be found. That they ſhall one day caſt out therehence Gog and Magog, inhabit it in the old place,Breerew. Enquir. and have excellent ſtrength and valour miniſtred by God to them, all equally for their common defence, none lifting up themſelves above another, but all alike aſcribing the glory unto God, is concluded by ſome (and thoſe not inconſiderable) Divines out of this and the following verſes.