John Trapp on Zechariah 5:2

Verſ. 2. What ſeeſt thou] q. d. Mark it well, and let thine eye affect thine heart; let theſe things be oculis commiſſa fidelibus.

I ſee a flying book] See the Note on verſe 1. Some read it, A double book, (according to the Chaldaick ſignification of the word) as containing double, that is, manifold menaces and puniſhments of ſinne. But the Chaldee Paraphraſt, Septuagint, and others, render it flying; as haſting, and hovering over the heads of wicked perſons.

the length thereof is twenty cubits, &c.] Ten yards long, and five broad. Neither let men ſay, that words are but wind, as they did Jer. 5.13. For, 1. Even wind, when gotten into the bowels of the earth, may cauſe an earth-quake; as when into the bowels of the body, an heart-quake. 2. God threateneth thoſe ſcoffers verſe 14. that he will make that word which they tearmed wind, to become fire, and themſelves fuel to feed it. And as fire flyeth upon fuell fully dried, Nah. 1.10. and conſumeth it in an inſtant: ſo Gods flying roll will lick up the evil-doers, no otherwiſe then the fire from heaven after it had conſumed the ſacrifice, the wood, the ſtones, and the duſt, licked up alſo the water that was in the trench, 1 King. 18.38. The threatnings of Gods Law (the ſame with this Roll) are (as Eraſmus ſaith of Ezek. 3.18.) fulmina non verba, lightbolts rather then words: or if words, yet they are (as One ſaith) Verba non legenda ſed vivenda, Words not to be read onely, but lived: at leaſt, not to be read as men do the old ſtories of forraigne warres; wherein they are nothing concerned (but as threatening themſelves in every threat, curſing themſelves in every curſe, &c.) nor as they read the predictions of an Almanack for wind and weather: which they think may come to paſſe, and it may be not: but be confident of this very thing, that God who hath denounced it will ſurely do it, and that he will execute the judgement written in this roll, Pſal. 149.9. yea every ſickneſſe and every plague which is not written in the book of this Law, them will the Lord cauſe to deſcend upon the diſobedient, untill they be deſtroyed, Deut. 28.61.