Can it be that this angel was Gabriel, by whom
Bishop Heber thinks the Holy Ghost was repre-
sented ? He continues to talk with Zechariah till
the eighth verse of the fourth chapter, when * the
Word of the Lord ' came to the Prophet ; and in
the fourth verse of the next chapter He speaks of

^ " Christ the Stone of Israel, whom the builders rejected, the
foundation and chief comer-stone of the spiritual building, the
church." " Gill's Commentary."

<* And thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent Me
unto you." ** This clause is not an address unto Zerubbabel,
nor is the angel designed so ofben mentioned, that talked
with the Prophet : but they are spoken by the Messiah,
called the Word of the Lord. Chap. iv. 8, 9." "Gill's
Commentary."

The Eev. A. M'Caul, in his translation of Kimchi on Zecha-
riah, says of ver. 5, chap.xi., << This is a remarkable exposition,
as furnishing another instance of the plural being applied to
God "(p. 120). «Zech.iii.6, 10.
