6. wounds in thine hand--The interrogator still suspects him: "If
so, if you have never pretended to be a prophet, whence come those
wounds?" The Hebrew is literally, "between thine hands." The
hands were naturally held up to ward off the blows, and so were "thrust
through"
(Zec 13:3)
"between" the bones of the hand. Stoning was the usual
punishment; "thrusting through" was also a fit retribution on one who
tried to "thrust Israel away" from the Lord
(De 13:10);
and perfects the type of Messiah, condemned as a false prophet, and
pierced with "wounds between His hands." Thus the transition to the
direct prophecy of Him
(Zec 13:7)
is natural, which it would not be if He were not indirectly and in type
alluded to.
wounded in . . . house of my friends--an implied
admission that he had pretended to prophecy, and that his friends had
wounded him for it in zeal for God
(Zec 13:3).
The Holy Spirit in Zechariah alludes indirectly to Messiah, the
Antitype, wounded by those whom He came to befriend, who ought to have
been His "friends," who were His kinsmen (compare
Zec 13:3,
as to the false prophet's friends, with
Mr 3:21,
"His friends," Margin, "kinsmen";
Joh 7:5;
"His own,"
Joh 1:11;
the Jews, "of whom as concerning the flesh He came,"
Ro 9:5),
but who wounded Him by the agency of the Romans
(Zec 12:10).
JFB.
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