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Selected Verse: Zechariah 4:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Zec 4:12 |
Strong Concordance |
And I answered [06030] again [08145], and said [0559] unto him, What be these two [08147] olive [02132] branches [07641] which through [03027] the two [08147] golden [02091] pipes [06804] empty [07324] the golden [02091] oil out of themselves? |
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King James |
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
through--literally, "by the hand of," that is, by the agency of.
branches--literally, "ears"; so the olive branches are called, because as ears are full of grain, so the olive branches are full of olives.
golden oil--literally, "gold," that is, gold-like liquor.
out of themselves--Ordinances and ministers are channels of grace, not the grace itself. The supply comes not from a dead reservoir of oil, but through living olive trees (Psa 52:8; Rom 12:1) fed by God. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| What are the two spikes of the olive? - Comparing the extreme branches of the olive-tree, laden with their fruit, to the ears of corn, which "were by or in the hand of the golden pipes, which empty forth the golden oil from themselves." Zechariah's expression, in the hand of or, if so be, by the hand of the two pipes, shows that these two were symbols of living agents, for it is nowhere, used except of a living agent, or of that which it personified as such. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I answered - l went on to discourse. Unto him - The angel. What be these - Two principal branches, one in each tree, fuller of berries, and hanging over the golden pipes. Through the pipes - These were fastened to the bowl, on each side one, with a hole through the sides of the bowl, to let the oil that distilled from those olive - branches run into the bowl. Out of themselves - An emblem of supernatural grace; these branches filled from the true olive - tree, ever empty themselves, and are ever full; so are the gospel - ordinances. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| What be these two olive branches - That is, two boughs laden with branches of olive berries. |
1 I beseech [3870] you [5209] therefore [3767], brethren [80], by [1223] the mercies [3628] of God [2316], that ye present [3936] your [5216] bodies [4983] a living [2198] sacrifice [2378], holy [40], acceptable [2101] unto God [2316], which is your [5216] reasonable [3050] service [2999].
8 But I am like a green [07488] olive tree [02132] in the house [01004] of God [0430]: I trust [0982] in the mercy [02617] of God [0430] for ever [05769] and ever [05703].