Zechariah 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

I answered — l went on to discourse. Unto him — The angel. What be these — Two principal branches, one in each tree, fuller of berries, and hanging over the golden pipes. Through the pipes — These were fastened to the bowl, on each side one, with a hole through the sides of the bowl, to let the oil that distilled from those olive — branches run into the bowl. Out of themselves — An emblem of supernatural grace; these branches filled from the true olive — tree, ever empty themselves, and are ever full; so are the gospel — ordinances.

Zechariah 4:12

12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which throughc the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?