Zechariah
historical figure · 9 works · 16 mentions · 17 anchored passages
زكريا · Zakariyā · Zakarīyā · the prophet Zechariah
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Prophet whose vision of the high priest in filthy then clean garments and of the pierced one is applied to Christ's two comings.
" So too in Zechariah, in the person of Jesus — nay, even in the very mystery of the name, the true high priest of the Father, Christ Jesus — he is delineated in a twofold state for the two comings:
"And Judah shall set himself before Jerusalem and shall gather all the valour of the peoples round about, gold and silver.
He commanded through Zechariah that no one should remember the malice of his brother, but not even of his neighbour.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The prophet quoted for the phrase that God creates man's soul within him, the sharpest of the proof-texts against pre-existence.
“God created the soul of man within him” (3);
[33] 3) The Prophecy of Zakarīyā 12:
10, 22, 22, 33, 37, 43, 43, 45, 53 The Acts of the Apostles 37, 55 The Epistle of Buṭrus the Apostle 46 The Epistles of Būlus the Apostle 9, 10, 22, 22, 29, 37, 44, 51 The Book of Leviticus 33 The Book of Ayyūb 33 The Book of Genesis 10, 33 The Book of Ecclesiastes 37 The Book of Exodus 21, 43, 55 The Book of Psalms 10, 21 (8 times), 22, 37, 38, 38 The Prophecy of Zakariyā 33
Adversus Judaeos
Prophet quoted regarding gathered wealth of nations.
And Judah shall be arrayed against Jerusalem, and shall gather all the wealth of the peoples round about, gold and silver.
So too in Zechariah, in his person — nay, even in the mystery of his very name — Christ, the truest priest of the Father, is delineated by a twofold dress for his two comings.
Letters
Prophet quoted on false dreams and vain prophecy.
"The Lord made a vision, and a winter rain, because they that speak forth spoke labors, and dreamed false dreams.
Protrepticus
Hebrew prophet quoted rebuking the wicked and Jerusalem's adversary.
The prophet Zechariah threatens him:
Apologeticum
Prophet dated to the reigns of Cyrus and Darius.
For in the reign of Cyrus and Darius was Zechariah, at which time Thales, prince of natural philosophers, gave Croesus, when he questioned him, no certain answer about divinity, being troubled, no doubt, by the voices of the prophets.
De Carne Christi
Old Testament prophet in whom an angel is said to have spoken, contrasted with Christ.
so that he should declare an angel to have been in him in the way it was in Zechariah.
De Fuga in Persecutione
Prophet quoted threatening shepherds who fail their flock.
"Draw a sword upon the shepherds, and pluck out the sheep;
Scorpiace
A prophet said to have been killed between the altar and the temple, his blood staining the flints.
David is harassed, Elias put to flight, Jeremiah stoned, Isaiah sawn asunder, Zechariah butchered between the altar and the temple, assigning to the flints the perennial stains of his own gore.