John Trapp on Zechariah 2:4
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Zechariah2:4
Verſe 4. Run, ſpeak to this young man] Not go, but Run: yea, fly ſwiftly with wearineſſe of ſlight, as Dan: 9.21. Chriſt thinks it long ere his praying people hear from him. Onely he will be enquired of by them Ezek. 36.37. Zachary ſeemes to have been a young Prophet, and Chriſt remembred the kindneſſe of his youth, and became a wonderful counſeller to him: He gave to this young man (or greenheaded ſtripling) knowledge and diſcretion. Prov. 1.4. Epiphanius ſaith he was an old man: and that he is called a young man becauſe a client and diſciple of the Angel that communed with him. Where Angels are called men, it was no diſ. paragement to Zachary to call himſelf a lad, or ſervant conſidering his diſtance. Thus Abrahams ſervant, though old, is called his boy Gen. 24.52. by a Catachreſis. That's a good Note that One gives here, That the Angel tells the prophet;Mr. Pemble. but the prophet muſt tell the people: God uſing not the Miniſtery of Angels but men (earthen veſſels) to bear his Name to his people Acts 8.26. and 9.6. and 16.9
Jeruſalem ſhal be inhabited as towns without wals] Or ſhall dwell in towns without walls, viz. in the ſuburbs or villages, there being not room enough within the walls to receive them. This ſeemed an incredible thing to this poor remnant now returned from Babylon. But it is the property and duty of beleevers to truſt God upon his bare word: and that againſt ſenſe in things inviſible, and againſt reaſon, in things improbable.
for the multitude of men and cattel therein] That is, ſaith Auguſtine, of ſpiritual and carnal perſons in the Chuch Catholike.
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