Teks -- Zechariah 2:4 (NET)

2:4 and said to him, “Hurry, speak to this young man as follows: ‘Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.

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Wesley: Zec 2:4 - And he said

Christ to that angel who came to meet him.

Wesley: Zec 2:4 - Run

Hasten and tell Zechariah.

Wesley: Zec 2:4 - As towns

The suburbs of it shall be as towns unwalled, for extent and for safety.

JFB: Zec 2:4 - this young man

So Zechariah is called as being still a youth when prophetically inspired [GROTIUS]. Or, he is so called in respect to his ministry or service (compare Num 11:27; Jos 1:1) [VATABLUS]. Naturally the "angel that talked with" Zechariah is desired to "speak to" him the further communications to be made from the Divine Being.

JFB: Zec 2:4 - towns without walls for the multitude . . . Cattle

So many shall be its inhabitants that all could not be contained within the walls, but shall spread out in the open country around (Est 9:19); and so secure shall they be as not to need to shelter themselves and their cattle behind walls. So hereafter Judea is to be "the land of unwalled villages" (Eze 38:11). Spiritually, now the Church has extended herself beyond the walls (Eph 2:14-15) of Mosaic ordinances and has spread from cities to country villages, whose inhabitants gave their Latin name (pagani) to pagans, as being the last in parting with heathenism.

Clarke: Zec 2:4 - Run, speak to this young man

Run, speak to this young man - Nehemiah must have been a young man when he was sakee , or cup-bearer, to Artaxerxes

Clarke: Zec 2:4 - As towns without walls

As towns without walls - It shall be so numerously inhabited as not to be contained within its ancient limits. Josephus, speaking of this time, says, Wars 5:4:2, "The city, overflowing with inhabitants, by degrees extended itself beyond its walls."

TSK: Zec 2:4 - young // Jerusalem

young : Jer 1:6; Dan 1:17; 1Ti 4:12

Jerusalem : We learn from Josephus, that Jerusalem actually overflowed with inhabitants, and gradually extended itself beyond its walls, and that Herod Agrippa fortified the new part, called Bezetha. Zec 1:17, Zec 8:4, Zec 8:5, Zec 12:6, Zec 14:10,Zec 14:11; Isa 33:20, Isa 44:26; Jer 30:18, Jer 30:19, Jer 31:24, Jer 31:27; Jer 31:38-40, Jer 33:10-13; Eze 36:10,Eze 36:11; Mic 7:11

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Poole: Zec 2:4 - And said unto him // And he said // Run // Jerusalem // as towns without walls // Cattle

And said unto him or,

And he said or, as the French, Lequel lui dit, Which said unto him : so it is plain that the Angel which now was going forth spake to that angel which came to meet him, or gave him orders what to do.

Run since you came so seasonably, hasten with all diligence, and from me tell that young man, Zechariah.

Jerusalem which hath so long lain in rubbish, which I once delighted in, which now seems desolate and hopeless,

shall be inhabited filled with inhabitants,

as towns without walls the suburbs of it shall be as towns unwalled for greatness of extent, and for safety and freedom from enemies and danger: their own multitudes of men shall be some safeguard to them; and they shall have my presence, a better safeguard.

Cattle brought thither for sacred uses, for sacrifices.

Haydock: Zec 2:4 - Walls

Walls. This must be understood of the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church of Christ. (Challoner) ---

According to St. Augustine (in Psalm lxxi.) when the literal sense cannot be verified, we must have recourse to the thing prefigured; and thus what is here written, must be explained of the Church rather than of Jerusalem. (Worthington) ---

A little before the fall of the latter, it was become so populous that the houses which had been built without the walls were enclosed. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.) ---

this multitude was a sort of pledge or figure of the crowds which should embrace the gospel.

Gill: Zec 2:4 - And said unto him // Run, speak to this young man // saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls // for the multitude of men and cattle therein

And said unto him,.... That is, the other angel said to the angel that had been talking with the prophet,

Run, speak to this young man: meaning Zechariah, who was either young in years, as Samuel and Jeremiah were when they prophesied; or he was a servant of a prophet older than he, and therefore so called, as Joshua, Moses's minister, was, Num 11:28 as Kimchi observes:

saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; this shows that this is not to be understood of Jerusalem in a literal sense, for that was not inhabited as a town without a wall; its wall was built in Nehemiah's time, and remained until the city was destroyed by Vespasian; yea, it had a treble wall, as Josephus says ^b; but of the church of Christ in Gospel times; and denotes both the safety and security of it; see Eze 38:11 and the populousness of it; and especially as it will be in the latter day, when both Jews and Gentiles are called, and brought into it; which sense is confirmed by what follows:

for the multitude of men and cattle therein; the Jews being meant by "men"; see Eze 34:31 and the Gentiles by "cattle", to which they used to be compared by the former: this will be fulfilled when the nation of the Jews will be born at once, and all Israel will be saved, and the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in; for the number of the spiritual Israel, the sons of the living God, both Jews and Gentiles, shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured, Hos 1:10 and when there will be such a large increase of converts; and such flockings to Zion, to the spiritual Jerusalem, the church of God, that the place will be too small for them, Isa 49:19 whereas, when Jerusalem in a literal sense was rebuilt, after the Babylonian captivity, there was a want of persons to inhabit it, and lots were cast for one out of ten to dwell in it; and they were glad of others that offered themselves willingly to be inhabitants of it, Neh 11:1 for there was but a small number that returned from Babylon to repeople the city of Jerusalem, and the whole country of Judea; no more came from thence but forty two thousand, three hundred, and threescore, besides men and maid servants, which amounted to seven or eight thousand more, Ezr 2:64 Neh 7:66 which were but a few to fill such a country, and so many cities and towns that were in it, besides Jerusalem; and yet Josephus ^c affirms, that the number of those of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, that came up from thence, and were above twelve years of age, were four millions, six hundred, and twenty eight thousand; in which he is followed by Zonaras ^d, and it is admitted and approved of by Sanctius on the place; which is not only contrary to the accounts of Ezra and Nehemiah, but is incredible; that such a number that went into captivity, which was not very large, should, under all the distresses and oppressions they laboured, in seventy years time so multiply, and that two tribes only, as to be almost eight times more than all the twelve tribes were at their coming out of Egypt; a number large enough to have overrun the Babylonian monarchy; and too many to be supported in so small a country as the land of Canaan: wherefore, upon the whole, it must be best to interpret this of spiritual and mystical Jerusalem, and of the populousness of the church of Christ in the latter day.