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Selected Verse: Zechariah 3:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Zec 3:3 |
King James |
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| filthy garments--symbol of sin (Pro 30:12; Isa 4:4; Isa 64:6); proving that it is not on the ground of His people's righteousness that He accepts them. Here primarily the "filthy garments" represent the abject state temporally of the priesthood and people at the return from Babylon. Yet he "stood before the angel." Abject as he was, he was before Jehovah's eye, who graciously accepts His people's services, though mixed with sin and infirmity. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments - Such, it is expressed, was his habitual condition; he was one so clothed. The "filthy garment," as defilement generally, is, in Scripture, the symbol of sin. "We are all as the unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" Isa 64:6. "He that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy - when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion" Isa 4:3-4. "There is a generation, pure in its own eyes, and it is not washed from its filthiness" Pro 30:12. The same is expressed by different words, signifying pollution, defilement by sin; "Woe unto her that is filthy and polluted" Zep 3:1; "The land was defiled with blood" Psa 106:38; "they were defiled with their own works". It is symbolized also by the "divers washings" Heb 9:10 of the law, representing restored purity; and the use of the word by Psalmists and prophets; "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity" Psa 51:4; "wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes" Isa 1:16; "O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness" Jer 4:14. In later times at least, the accused were clothed in black , not in defiled garments. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
clothed
See (Isa 64:6).
Contrast (Phi 3:1-9).
angel
(See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| With filthy garments - The emblem of a poor or sinful state. The angel - Christ. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Joshua was clothed with filthy garments - The Jewish people were in a most forlorn, destitute, and to all human appearance despicable, condition; and besides all, they were sinful, and the priesthood defiled by idolatry; and nothing but the mercy of God could save them. |
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.