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Zaccaria 1:5

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5 I vostri padri dove son eglino? e que’ profeti potevano essi vivere in perpetuo?

Zaccaria 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where [are] they?
&c.] They are not in the land of the living; they perished by the sword of the Chaldeans, or died in captivity: and the prophets, do they live for ever?
meaning either the false prophets, as Hananiah and Shemaiah, ( Jeremiah 28:17 ) ( 29:32 ) or the true prophets of the Lord; and the words may be considered as a prevention of an objection the people might make, taken from their prophets dying in common with their fathers; and so the Targum paraphrases them, "and if you should say, the prophets, do they live for ever?" which is followed by Jarchi, and embraced by many interpreters: the answer is, it is true they died; but then their words live, and have had their full accomplishment.

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Zaccaria 1:5 In-Context

3 ma tu di’ loro: Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti: Convertitevi a me, dice il Signor degli eserciti, ed io mi rivolgerò a voi, ha detto il Signor degli eserciti.
4 Non siate come i vostri padri, a’ quali i profeti dei tempi passati gridavano, dicendo: Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti: Deh! convertitevi dalle vostre vie malvage, e dalle vostre malvage opere; ma essi non mi ubbidirono, e non mi porsero le orecchie, dice il Signore.
5 I vostri padri dove son eglino? e que’ profeti potevano essi vivere in perpetuo?
6 Le mie parole, e i miei statuti, de’ quali io avea data commissione a’ profeti, miei servitori, non aggiunsero esse pure i padri vostri? laonde essi si son convertiti, ed han detto: Come il Signore degli eserciti avea pensato di farci, secondo le nostre vie, e secondo le nostre opere, così ha egli operato inverso noi.
7 NEL ventesimoquarto giorno dell’undecimo mese, che è il mese di Sebat, nell’anno secondo di Dario, la parola del Signore fu indirizzata al profeta Zaccaria, figliuolo di Berechia, figliuolo di Iddo, dicendo:
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