He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the LORD’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Jesus, or Josue, the son of Josedec, the high priest of that time. Challoner.—To him this literally refers. Worthington.—As high priest, he represented the nation, whom several calumniated to Darius. 1 Ezra 4. and so forth God represses the adversary and adorns his people. It seems something has been done amiss. verse 4. Calmet.—The high priest, (Saint Jerome) or rather his sons, have married strangers. Chal. 1 Ezra 10:18. Many Fathers take Jesus for a figure of the Messias, covered with the sins of mankind. Calmet.—But the Orient (verse 8) would not thus be promised unto him, (Saint Jerome) unless we consider him also as high priest.—Satan. Septuagint “the devil;” the accuser and calumniator. Revelation 12:10.