Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Overview
Zac 5:1, By the flying roll is shewn the curse of thieves and swearers; Zac 5:5, and by a woman pressed in an ephah the final judgment of wickedness.
roll: Zac 5:2; Isa 8:1; Jer 36:1-6, Jer 36:20-24, Jer 36:27-32; Eze 2:9, Eze 2:10; Rev 5:1-14; Rev 10:2, Rev 10:8-11
What: Zac 4:2; Jer 1:11-14; Amo 7:8
the length: Gen 6:11-13; Rev 18:5
the curse: Deu 11:28, Deu 11:29, Deu 27:15-26, 28:15-68, Deu 29:19-28; Psa 109:17-20; Pro 3:33; Isa 24:6, Isa 43:28; Jer 26:6; Dan 9:11; Mal 3:9, Mal 4:6; Mat 25:41; Gal 3:10-13; Heb 6:6-8; Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15
the face: Luk 21:35
every one: etc. or, every one of this people that stealeth, holdeth himself guiltless, as it doth. stealeth. Exo 20:15; Pro 29:24, Pro 30:9; Jer 7:9; Hos 4:2; Mal 3:8-10; Co1 6:7-9; Eph 4:28; Jam 5:4
sweareth: Zac 5:4, Zac 8:17; Lev 19:12; Isa 48:1; Jer 5:2, Jer 23:10; Eze 17:13-16; Mal 3:5; Mat 5:33-37, Mat 23:16-22; Ti1 1:9; Jam 5:12
and it shall remain: Lev 14:34-45; Deu 7:26; Job 18:15, Job 20:26; Pro 3:33; Hab 2:9-11; Jam 5:2, Jam 5:3
the angel: Zac 1:9, Zac 1:14, Zac 1:19, Zac 2:3, Zac 4:5
Lift: Zac 5:1
This is an ephah: "The meaning of this vision," says Archbishop Newcome, "seems to be, that the Babylonish captivity had happened on account of the wickedness of the Jews, and that a like dispersion would befall them if they relapsed into like crimes." The woman who sat in the ephah was an emblem of the Jewish nation; the casting the weight of lead on the mouth of the ephah seems to mean the condemnation of the Jews, after they had filled up the measure of their iniquities by crucifying the Messiah; the "two women, with wings like a stork, and the wind in their wings," seem emblematical of the Roman armies and the rapidity of their conquests; and their lifting up the ephah and carrying it through the air, to build it a house in Shinar or Babylon, where it was fixed on its own basis, represents the taking of Jerusalem, the dispersion of the Jews, and the long continuance of that calamity, as a just punishment of their unbelief. Eze 44:10,Eze 44:11; Amo 8:5
talent: or, weighty piece, Isa 13:1, Isa 15:1, Isa 22:11
is: Jer 3:1, Jer 3:2; Ezek. 16:1-63, 23:1-49; Hosea 1:1-3:5; Rev. 17:1-18
This: Gen 15:16; Mat 23:32; Th1 2:16
the weight: Zac 5:7; Psa 38:4; Pro 5:22; Lam 1:14; Amo 9:1-4
for: Deu 28:49; Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27; Hos 8:1; Mat 24:28