![]() ![]() ![]() David feared it when he said, “Hide not Thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.” Yet even here there may be vision in the darkness, and this is a favour indeed. There is another kind of spiritual night more fearful still. It is night, when with sufferings upon us, we do not recognise the hand that inflicts them. For night in a spiritual sense is only dreadful when we are deprived of spiritual vision, when the eyes of the understanding are darkened. ![]() Apply the words, by way of accommodation, to the spiritual night of Christendom. The words “by night” may remind us of the circumstances of the time at which the vision was given. At that season the Lord came to him, opening the prophet’s spiritual eyes, and causing to pass before him, like a pictured scene in bright and glowing colours, a sublime and cheering vision. “By night.” Primarily he meant natural night, while men slept. The vision in our text is both beautiful and consoling. The anointed One of God and His kingdom are the centre and axis about which the fiery wheel of all Zechariah’s revelations and imagery turns. ![]()
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