further development, with the preceding, and the number of visions thus reduced to seven.* Zechariah, however, notwithstanding his partiality for the perfect number, does not seem to have meant that it should be so treated. If he had, the interpreter would hardly be represented as returning to the prophet, as if after an absence, and, when he came forth, reappeared, commanding his charge to lift up his eyes and see, just as at the beginning of the other visions. See, the angel says, what this is