Zechariah 5:2

"Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll."

Key Reflection

Zechariah 5:2 presents the prophet as raising his eyes to heaven and witnessing an extraordinary vision—a flying scroll. In Zechariah's time, scrolls were significant objects used for important documents, making this image of a moving scroll particularly striking. The original audience would have understood such a vision as conveying divine messages or judgments, likely setting up the themes that follow in the prophecy about the removal of wickedness from the land.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And he -(the interpreting angel) said unto me It cannot be without meaning, that the dimensions of the roll should be those of the tabernacle , as the last vision was that of the candlestick, after the likeness of the candlestick therein. The explanations of this correspondence do not exclude each other.

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