[836] Wellhausen takes the last words of ver. 5 with ver. 6, reads עָמַד and renders _And the Angel of Jehovah stood up or stepped forward_. But even if עָמַד be read, the order of the words would require translation in the pluperfect, which would come to the same as the original text. And if Wellhausen’s proposal were correct the words _Angel of Jehovah_ in ver. 6 would be superfluous. [837] Read מַהֲלָכִים (Smend, _A. T. Rel. Gesch._, p. 324, n. 2). [838] Or _facets_. [839] _E.g._ Marti, _Der Prophet Sacharja_, p. 83. [840] Hitzig, Wright and many others. On the place of this stone in the legends of Judaism see Wright, pp. 75 f. [841] Ewald, Marcus Dods. [842] Von Orelli, Volck. [843] Bredenkamp. [844] Wellhausen, _in loco_, and Smend, _A. T. Rel. Gesch._, 345. [845] So Marti, p. 88. [846] 1 Kings vii. 49. [847] 1 Macc. i. 21; iv. 49, 50. Josephus, XIV. _Ant._ iv. 4. [848] LXX. Heb. has _seven sevens_ of pipes. [849] Wellhausen reads _its right_ and deletes _the bowl_. [850]‎ ואען. ‎ענה is not only _to answer_, but to take part in a conversation, whether by starting or continuing it. LXX. rightly ἐπηρώτησα. [851] Heb. _saying_. [852] In the Hebrew text, followed by the ancient and modern versions, including the English Bible, there here follows 6_b_-10_a_, the Word to Zerubbabel. They obviously disturb the narrative of the Vision, and Wellhausen has rightly transferred them to the end of it, where they come in as naturally as the word of hope to Joshua comes in at the end of the preceding Vision. Take them away, and, as can be seen above, ver. 10_b_ follows quite naturally upon 6_a_. [853] Heb. _gold_. So LXX. [854] Wellhausen omits the whole of this second question (ver. 12) as intruded and unnecessary. So also Smend as a doublet on ver. 11 (_A. T. Rel. Gesch._, 343 n.). So also Nowack. [855] Heb. _saying_. [856] LXX. _I_. [857] Or _Fair, fair is it!_ Nowack. [858] _The stone, the leaden_. Marti, _St. u. Kr._, 1892, p. 213 n., takes _the leaden_ for a gloss, and reads simply _the stone_, _i.e._ the top-stone; but the plummet is the last thing laid to the building to test the straightness of the top-stone. [859] _A. T. Rel. Gesch._, 312 n. [860]‎ מגלה _roll_ or _volume_. LXX. δρέπανον, _sickle_, מַגָּל.