9. For if ye do it not, the _heaven over you shall be stayed of her dew_, that is, the heavenly Word, Which descends _as the dew upon the grass_, shall not temper the fevered motions of your bodily passions, nor extinguish the fiery darts of your various desires; and _the earth_, that is, your soul, _shall be stayed from her fruit_, so that it shall be dried up, unless fully watered by the Word of God, and sprinkled with heavenly dew, even the fulness of spiritual Grace. Sidenote: Hag. i. 14. Sidenote: Ps. cxxvii. 1. Sidenote: Col. i. 16, 17. Sidenote: S. John vii. 37. 10. And as He knew how slothful they are who dwelt beneath the earth, and in the dark abodes of pleasure, _I will stir up_, it is said, _the spirit of Jerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Governor of Judah_, and _the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest_, that they may be stirred up to build the Divine house. For _except the Lord build the house, their labour is lost that build it_. Now Zerubbabel means, ‘constant overflowing,’ like the Fountain of life, and the Word of God, _by Whom and from Whom are all things and in Whom all things consist_. Thus saith the overflowing Fountain, _If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink_; drink, that is, from the stream of the unfailing flood. We read also of Zabulon, a nocturnal flood, that is to say prophetic, but it also is now brightened by the intermixture of this stream, whereby was swallowed up that flood of vanity typified by Jezabel, which was opposed to truth and to the utterances of prophets, and was so torn in pieces by dogs that not a trace of it remained, but all its frame with every mark of its posterity was destroyed. Zerubbabel therefore of the tribe of Judah, and Jesus the High Priest, thus designated both by tribe and name seem to represent two persons, though one only is meant; for He Who as Almighty is born from the Almighty, as Redeemer is born of the Virgin, being the Same in the diversity of His two divisible natures, hath fulfilled as the Giant of salvation[166] the verity of the one Son of God. Sidenote: Hag. ii. 6. Sidenote: Exod. xiii. 21. Sidenote: Ib. xiv. 22. Sidenote: S. Luke xxiii. 44.