John Trapp on Zechariah 9:8

Verſe 8. And I will encamp about mine houſe] Though it be otherwiſe but ill fenced and fortified: yet I will ſee it ſafegarded and ſecured from the inrodes and incurſions of enemies, who are ranging up and down, and not onely robbing, but raviſhing, Pſal. 10.9. For what was Alexander but an Arch-pirate, a ſtrong theef, as the Pirate whom he had taken told him to his teeth? And whether here be intimated by theſe words, becauſe of him that paſſeth by, and him that returneth] ſomething of Alexanders voyages, who paſſed by Judaea into Egypt, and to Ammons Oracle with his Army; and thence returned to Perſia by the ſame way, not hurting the Jewes; or ſomething about the many expeditions of the Seleucidae, and Lagedae to and fro from Egypt to Syria, and back again: among which hurly-burly the Jewes State ſtood faſt, though ſometime a little ſhaken; I dare not ſay, (ſaith a learned Interpreter:) It may be both thoſe and all other the like dangers are here generally comprized.

and no oppreſſour ſhall paſſe thorow them any more] Chald. No Sultan: not the Turkiſh tyrant, Lord of Greece, as verſe 13. ſay thoſe that take the text of the Jew glorious ſtate at laſt. Calvin thinkes that by this clauſe, he only expounds what he had figuratively ſaid before. Danaeus takes it of violence and oppreſſion among themſelves, or of wringing and vexing by their own rulers: they ſhall be free from violence both abroad an at home.

for now have I ſeen with mine eyes] i. e. I have taken good notice of it, I have ſeen, I have ſeen, as Exod. 3.7. and mine eye hath affected mine heart. I have well obſerved that the enemy is grown unſufferably inſolent, and therefore come to reſcue and relieve my people. The Chaldee hath it thus, I have now revealed my power to do them good: Ahen-Ezra makes theſe to be the Prophets words of himſelf, q. d. I have ſeen all this in a manifeſt viſion. But this is frigidum imo inſulſum, ſaith Calvin and odd conceit: unleſſe we refer it (with Montanus) to the following words, and make this the ſenſe, (which yet I like not ſo well) Behold I ſee in the ſpirit with the eyes of my mind, the Lord Chriſt comming and entring with ſtate, the city and temple.