Zechariah 5

Zechariah 5:6-11

The ephah, a large measure, denotes that they would fill up a very large measure of iniquity every where before God would execute his judgments upon them. The woman sitting in the ephah denotes the Jewish nation awfully abandoned to wickedness. The talent of lead, for covering the mouth of the ephah, denotes the dreadful and unavoidable weight of their calamities. The two winged women, who carried the ephah, denote the Roman armies destroying the Jews, and carrying them into a miserable and lasting captivity. Their fixing an house for it in the land of Shinar imports that the dispersion of the Jews by the Romans would be as miserable, and much more lasting, than the captivity in Babylon

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. V.—Fearful is the curse which all men are under by nature; and which will find them out, go where they will, if they continue without Christ. Thieves and profane swearers, those brethren in sin, are infamous and self-destroying wretches. And unavoidable, insupportable, and lasting, is the wrath of God, which falls upon obstinate transgressors, and especially apostates from his true worship