John Trapp on Zechariah 5:1

CHAP. V.

Verſe 1. THen I turned me, and lifted up mine eyes] i.e. I prepared me to the receiving of a new viſion: nothing ſo comfortable as the former, but no leſſe neceſſary; that the people, by ſenſe of ſinne, and fear of wrath, might be taken off their wicked practiſes, redeem their own ſorrows, and be accounted worthy to eſcape all thoſe things that ſhould (otherwiſe) come to paſſe, as verſe 11. and to ſtand before the Son of man, at that dreadfull day. This ſeemeth to bee the mind of the Holy Ghoſt,Luke 21.36. in theſe two viſions here recorded: which while ſome Interpreters attend not, in toto vaticinio neque coelum, neque terram attingunt, ſaith Calvin, they are utterly out.

and behold a flying roll] Or, volume, as Pſal. 40.10. or ſcroll of paper, or parchment, uſually rolled up, like the web upon the pin, mi convolvuntur noſtrae Mappae Geographicae, as our Mappes are rolled up, ſaith A Lapide: and as in the publike Library at Oxford the Book or Roll of Eſther (an Hebrew Manuſcript) is at this day to bee ſeen:D. Prid. Orat. 4. Amem. Antibarb. lib. 3. Volans velociſſimum aſtion[illegible: 1 letter]s incurſum ſignificat. Chryſost. but here flying] Not onely becauſe ſpread wide open, as Rabſhakeh's letter, 2 King. 19.14. and as that Book of the Prophet Eſaias, Luke 4.17. but alſo as fleeting along ſwiftly, like a bird ready to ſeiz on her prey. Nemo ſcelus gerit in Pectore, qui non idem Nemeſin in tergo. The Heathens thens named Nemeſis (their Goddeſſe of Revenge to take puniſhment of offend ours) [non-Latin text not transcribed], becauſe no man can poſſibly eſcape her. They tell us alſo that their Jupiter writeth down all the ſinnes of all men in a book, or ſcroll, made of a goatspelt, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. which they call [non-Latin text not transcribed]: the very word whereby Aquila and Theodotion (two Greek Tranſlatours) do render the Hebrew of this Text. (See Dan, 7.18. Rev. 20.12.) Symmachus turnes it [non-Latin text not transcribed], a Chapter, or Abſtract of a larger Book, full of ſinnes, and Woes: and yet it is of an unheard of hugeneſſe, verſe 2. and of very ſad contents, like that book of Ezechiel, chap. 2.9, 10. lamentation, and mourning, and woe; or the firſt leaf of Biſhop Babingtons book (which he turned over every morning) all black: to inmind him of hell, and Gods judgements due unto him for his ſinnes.