Zechariah 6

Ver. 1–8. The brazen mountains may denote the unchangeable counsels of God, from which every thing in churches or nations originates; or the seeming difficulties in the first rise of events. The four chariots, drawn by horses of different colours, may represent the diversified dispensations of Providence in acts of mercy or wrath; or the angels of God as every where throughout the world ministering therein; or the apostles and ministers of Christ as actuated by his Spirit and ministering in what relates to the church; or the four successive empires in the world. The red horses represented the bloody Chaldeans; the black, the Persians, who executed God’s vengeance in conquering Chaldea, called the north country; the white, the rapidly victorious Greeks; and the grizzled and bay horses, the Romans at last mingled with the ravaging Goths, who especially carried their conquests to the south. [See Introduction, chap iv. sect. xi—xv.] 13. The counsel of peace denotes the covenant of grace between Christ and his Father; and the gospel of our salvation, in which Christ’s priestly and kingly offices are so gloriously connected

Zechariah 6:14

The crowns remained in the temple a memorial of the liberality of those four men who had contributed the materials, and a figure of the future glory of Christ. 2

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VI.—From what imputably-fixed decrees all the events of Providence originate: nor can any opposition prevent their execution. In the most august and awful manner are they carried on; and angels and ministers are honoured to be the instruments. Diversified, ever varying, divinely actuated, admirably connected, and strangely mixed, are their parts! And God takes pleasure in every motion of them; particularly in taking vengeance upon the most noted enemies of his church. It is honourable to help forward good works by our purse, even when we cannot do it in our persons: nor shall the generosity of such be unremembered by God. But how transcendently glorious is our blessed Mediator, upon whose head are many crowns, which can never totter nor be taken off! Marvellous and useful are his administrations in erecting and managing his church; and to himself shall all the glory and honour of his work redound. Yea, under him, in virtue of the new covenant and gospel, both Jews and Gentiles are happily and divinely united into his mystical body the church