[731] iv. 6-10. [732] i. 7-21 (Eng., Heb. i. 7—ii. 4). [733] iv. 6 ff. [734] iii., iv. [735] i. 16. [736] v. [737] vii. 3. [738] vii. 1-7, viii. 18, 19. [739] viii. 20-23. [740] viii. 16, 17. [741] viii. 20-23. [742] ii. 10 f. Heb., 6 f. LXX. and Eng. [743] Though the expression _I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven_ seems to imply the Exile before any return. [744] For the bearing of this on Kosters’ theory of the Return see pp. 211 f. [745] See below, p. 300. [746] Outside the Visions the prophecies contain these echoes or repetitions of earlier writers: chap. i. 1-6 quotes the constant refrain of prophetic preaching before the Exile, and in chap. vii. 7-14 (ver. 8 must be deleted) is given a summary of that preaching; in chap. viii. ver. 3 echoes Isa. i. 21, 26, _city of troth_, and Jer. xxxi. 23, _mountain of holiness_ (there is really no connection, as Kuenen holds, between ver. 4 and Isa. lxv. 20; it would create more interesting questions as to the date of the latter if there were); ver. 8 is based on Hosea ii. 15 Heb., 19 Eng., and Jer. xxxi. 33; ver. 12 is based on Hosea ii. 21 f. (Heb. 23 f.); with ver. 13 compare Jer. xlii. 18, _a curse_; vv. 21 ff. with Isa. ii. 3 and Micah iv. 2. [747] _E.g._ vii. 5, צַמְתֻּנִי אָנִי for צַמְתֶּם לִי: cf. Ewald, _Syntax_, § 315_b_. The curious use of the acc. in the following verse is perhaps only apparent; part of the text may have fallen out. [748] Though there are not wanting, of course, echoes here as in the other prophecies of older writings, _e.g._ i. 12, 17. [749]‎ לאמר, _saying_, ii. 8 (Gr. ii. 4); iv. 5, _And the angel who spoke with me said_; i. 17, cf. vi. 5. _All_ is inserted in i. 11, iii. 9; _lord_ in ii. 2; _of hosts_ (after _Jehovah_) viii. 17; and there are other instances of palpable expansion, _e.g._ i. 6, 8, ii. 4 bis, 6, viii. 19. [750] _E.g._ ii. 2, iv. 2, 13, v. 9, vi. 12 bis, vii. 8: cf. also vi. 13. [751] i. 8 ff., iii. 4 ff.: cf. also vi. 3 with vv. 6 f. [752] _E.g._ (but this is outside the Visions) the very flagrant misunderstanding to which the insertion of vii. 8 is due. [753] v. 6, עינם for עונם as in LXX., and the last words of v. 11; perhaps vi. 10; and almost certainly vii. 2_a_. [754] Chap. iv. On 6_a_, 10_b_-14 should immediately follow, and 6_b_-10_a_ come after 14. [755] vi. 11 ff. See below, pp. 308 f. [756] Chief variants: i. 8, 10; ii. 15; iii. 4; iv. 7, 12; v. 1, 3, 4, 9; vi. 10, 13; vii. 3; viii. 8, 9, 12, 20. Obvious mistranslations or misreadings: ii. 9, 10, 15, 17; iii. 4; iv. 7, 10; v. 1, 4, 9; vi. 10, cf. 14; vii. 3. CHAPTER XX _ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET_ ZECHARIAH i. 1-6, etc.; EZRA v. 1, vi. 14