5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? …
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: …
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here is, I. The foundation of Zechariah’s ministry; it is laid in a divine authority: The word of the Lord came to him . He received a divine commission to be God’s mouth to the people and with it instructions what to say. He received of the Lord that which also he delivered unto them. The word of the Lord was to him ; it came in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit, as a real thing, and n…
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