John Wesley's Notes on the Bible

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Zechariah 8
A promise that Jerusalem shall be restored, ver. 1-8. That the whole church shall be established and increased, ver. 9-23.

Verse 2.   Jealousy - With great care that she should not, as formerly, sin against my love, and her own welfare, and with a great desire to do her good, and to rescue her from her enemies. Fury - With heat of anger against her enemies.

Verse 3.   Shall be called a city of truth - Her citizens shall love the truth and speak it, shall worship me in truth of heart, as well as in the true manner prescribed to them.

Verse 4.   Old men - Formerly war, or famine or pestilence, and wasting diseases, cut off men and women before they came to old age.

Verse 6.   marvelous - These things may seem strange to this people.

Verse 7.   The east-country - Persia and Media, which lay east from Jerusalem, and were now masters of Babylon.

Verse 8.   In truth and in righteousness - This signifies both God's part, and their part; on God's part truth, on their's righteousness, obedience to God's righteous law.

Verse 9.   The prophets - Haggai and Zechariah.

Verse 10.   Before these days - For eighteen years together. No hire - No profit by the labour of man or beast, no sowing or planting. Affliction - Distress, and want, through the barrenness, which attended all their labour.

Verse 11.   I will not be - That is, I will not deal with them as in former days.

Verse 14.   I repented not - I did not fail to do it.

Verse 15.   So - So with like steadiness of mind I have purposed to do well to you.

Verse 16.   Judgment of truth - True judgment. Peace - That may restore, and settle peace among you. Gates - The places of judicature, where the Judges sat.

Verse 19.   Thus saith the Lord - This verse is a final decision of the case: provided they do these things required, ver. 16, 17, then shall the fasting cease, and turn into joyful feasts. The fourth month - Wherein the city was taken by the Babylonians. The fifth - In which the temple was burnt. The seventh - Wherein Gedaliah was killed. The tenth - On the tenth day whereof the king of Babylon's army sat down before the city.

Verse 20.   People - Multitudes.

Verse 21.   I will go also - The invited, shall with as much zeal embrace the motion, as others made it.

Verse 22.   In Jerusalem - Literally understood, you have the first fruits of them mentioned, Acts ii, 10-12. Mystically, Jerusalem is the church of Christ. To pray - To perform all gospel-worship.

Verse 23.   Ten men - That is, many men. All languages - No nation is any longer excluded. A Jew - To whom the gospel was first preached. We have heard - And now see, and are assured. That God - The true God, the only true God, whom to know is life eternal.


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This version of Wesley's Notes on the Bible is a derivative of an electronic version, Copyright 1997, by Sulu D. Kelley. All rights reserved. Used by permission. It may not be modified or used commercially without permission of Wesleyan Heritage Publishing and Sulu Kelley. A special thanks to Mr. Kelley and Wesleyan Heritage Publishing for permission to create and post this version of Wesley's Notes on the Bible.

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