the two golden spouts that discharge into the golden bowl. The result is a completely automatic contrivance which probably seemed to the glossator a great improvement on the original, but which, as will appear, really reverses the thought that Zechariah intended to illustrate.—13. This verse is the proper and natural continuation of v. 11, corresponding, except in the introductory clause, to v. 5. On the text, see the critical notes.—14. The prophet having again protested his ignorance, the interpreter
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