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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 13:5 - 13:5
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The detection of one of the false prophets dramatically represented. He is seized by some zealous vindicator of the law, and in fear cries out, “I am no prophet.”
man - that is, one.
taught me to keep cattle - As “keeping cattle” is not the same as to be “an husbandman,” translate rather, “Has used (or ‘appropriated’) me as a servant,” namely, in husbandry [Maurer]. However, husbandry and keeping cattle might be regarded as jointly the occupation of the person questioned: then Amo 7:14, “herdman,” will accord with English Version. A Hebrew kindred word means “cattle.” Both occupations, the respondent replies, are inconsistent with my being a “prophet.”