Zacharie 4:1-6

1 L'ange qui parlait avec moi revint, et il me réveilla comme un homme que l'on réveille de son sommeil.

2 Il me dit: Que vois-tu? Je répondis: Je regarde, et voici, il y a un chandelier tout d'or, surmonté d'un vase et portant sept lampes, avec sept conduits pour les lampes qui sont au sommet du chandelier;

3 et il y a près de lui deux oliviers, l'un à la droite du vase, et l'autre à sa gauche.

4 Et reprenant la parole, je dis à l'ange qui parlait avec moi: Que signifient ces choses, mon seigneur?

5 L'ange qui parlait avec moi me répondit: Ne sais-tu pas ce que signifient ces choses? Je dis: Non, mon seigneur.

6 Alors il reprit et me dit: C'est ici la parole que l'Eternel adresse à Zorobabel: Ce n'est ni par la puissance ni par la force, mais c'est par mon esprit, dit l'Eternel des armées.

Zacharie 4:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ZECHARIAH 4

In this chapter are contained the vision of a golden candlestick, and of two olive trees by it, and the explanation thereof. The preparation to this vision, which is the awaking of the prophet, as of a man out of sleep, is in Zec 4:1. The vision of the candlestick, and olive trees, is in Zec 4:2,3. The candlestick is described by the matter of it, gold; and by the parts of it, its bowl, lamps, and pipes; and the olive trees by their situation; the explanation of which is at the request of the prophet, he not knowing what they meant, Zec 4:4,5 when it is observed to him, that this represents, under the type of Zerubbabel building the temple, the building of the Gospel church by Christ; and which is done and finished, not by might or power of man, but by the Spirit, notwithstanding all opposition, and contempt of it, to the great joy of many, who observe the grace of God, and his providential care and goodness, in it, Zec 4:6-10 and upon the prophet's inquiring the meaning of the two olive trees, which he was ignorant of, he is told that these are the two anointed ones that stood by the Lord of the whole earth, Zec 4:11-14.