KenH
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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. - Zechariah 4:7
"There is a great beauty in the reiteration of the word grace; intimating, if I mistake not, that as grace begins the work in the heart, so grace alone concludes it. Indeed, it can be nothing but grace all the way; daily grace, hourly grace, and all from the Lord. Reader! by the way, do let us remark from hence, what is continually taught in the word of God, not only in this scripture, but in all scripture, but which takes the whole life to learn; namely, that the progress of grace is to know more our own nothingness, and Christ's all-sufficiency.
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Reader! depend upon it, as this blessed passage in the Prophet saith, the same Almighty hands of our glorious Zerubbabel, who laid the foundation of his spiritual house in the heart, the same can alone finish it. And this becomes the sure, indisputable testimony, both of his own divine person, and the finished glory of his work and offices, and the authority of the Father in him. Oh! precious truths of a precious Saviour! Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 22:13."
- excerpt from Robert Hawker's Bible commentary on Zechariah 4:2-10
"There is a great beauty in the reiteration of the word grace; intimating, if I mistake not, that as grace begins the work in the heart, so grace alone concludes it. Indeed, it can be nothing but grace all the way; daily grace, hourly grace, and all from the Lord. Reader! by the way, do let us remark from hence, what is continually taught in the word of God, not only in this scripture, but in all scripture, but which takes the whole life to learn; namely, that the progress of grace is to know more our own nothingness, and Christ's all-sufficiency.
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Reader! depend upon it, as this blessed passage in the Prophet saith, the same Almighty hands of our glorious Zerubbabel, who laid the foundation of his spiritual house in the heart, the same can alone finish it. And this becomes the sure, indisputable testimony, both of his own divine person, and the finished glory of his work and offices, and the authority of the Father in him. Oh! precious truths of a precious Saviour! Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 22:13."
- excerpt from Robert Hawker's Bible commentary on Zechariah 4:2-10