Commentary on Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah and Malachi John Calvin
Zechariah 4
Zechariah 4:1-6
1. And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
1. Et reversus et angelus, qui loquebatur mecum, et excitavit me, quasi virum qui excitatur (vel, evigilat) a somno suo.
2. And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
2. Et dixit ad me, Quid tu vides? et dixit, Video, et ecce candelabrum ex auro totum (hoc est, ex solido auro,) et pelvis super caput ejus; et septem lucernae super ipsum; septem et septem infusoria lucernis, quae sunt super caput ejus;
3. And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
3. Et duae oleae super ipsum, una a dextera pelvis, et una ad sinistram ejus.
4. So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
4. Et respondit et dixi angelo, qui loquebatur mecum, dicendo, Quid ista, Domine mi?
5. Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
5. Et respondit angelus, qui loquebatur mecum, et dixit mihi, Annon cognoscis quid sint haec? Et dixi, Non, Domine mi.
6. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
6. Et respondit et dixit mihi dicendo, Hic sermo Iehovae ad Zerubbabel, dicendo, Non in exercitu, et non in fortitudine, sed in Spiritu meo, dicit Iehova exercituum.