OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 6:11

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Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;

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Verse 11. Crowns. Chal. “a great crown.” Septuagint verse 14. “a crown;” perhaps like the pope’s Menochius.—Jesus. When the prophet set the crown on the high priest’s head, in order to shew that it did not belong to him, except as a figure of the Messias, he added, behold a man, who is also God, called Orient, or “raising up,” and establishing the kingdom, which was promised to David. Saint Jerome Worthington.

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