The man that stood among the myrtle trees: see Malachi 1:8. Answered; gave answer to what I asked. These; horsemen. They whom the Lord hath sent; a periphrasis of angels, who are servants and ministers of the Divine Providence in the government of the world. To walk to and fro through the earth: God is pleased after the manner of men to speak of his managing the affairs of the world; men must employ others, because they need them, God will employ angels, though he needs them not. The earth; the empires which his churches were either helped or injured by: these were, partly by the pride of their emperors, partly by the flattery of their servants and ministers, and partly by the ignorance of the world at that time in matters of geography, thought to be the whole earth; and the Scripture sometimes useth phrases used and well known among men, though there be some impropriety in them. The man that stood among the myrtle trees: see Malachi 1:8. Answered; gave answer to what I asked. These; horsemen. They whom the Lord hath sent; a periphrasis of angels, who are servants and ministers of the Divine Providence in the government of the world. To walk to and fro through the earth: God is pleased after the manner of men to speak of his managing the affairs of the world; men must employ others, because they need them, God will employ angels, though he needs them not. The earth; the empires which his churches were either helped or injured by: these were, partly by the pride of their emperors, partly by the flattery of their servants and ministers, and partly by the ignorance of the world at that time in matters of geography, thought to be the whole earth; and the Scripture sometimes useth phrases used and well known among men, though there be some impropriety in them. The man that stood among the myrtle trees: see Malachi 1:8. Answered; gave answer to what I asked. These; horsemen. They whom the Lord hath sent; a periphrasis of angels, who are servants and ministers of the Divine Providence in the government of the world. To walk to and fro through the earth: God is pleased after the manner of men to speak of his managing the affairs of the world; men must employ others, because they need them, God will employ angels, though he needs them not. The earth; the empires which his churches were either helped or injured by: these were, partly by the pride of their emperors, partly by the flattery of their servants and ministers, and partly by the ignorance of the world at that time in matters of geography, thought to be the whole earth; and the Scripture sometimes useth phrases used and well known among men, though there be some impropriety in them.
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Zechariah 1:10
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.