Zacharias 1:8
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him were horses, red, speckled, and white.
Challoner: A manAn angel in the shape of a man. It was probably Michael, the guardian angel of the church of God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vidi per noctem, et ecce vir ascendens super equum rufum, et ipse stabat inter myrteta, quæ erant in profundo, et post eum equi rufi, varii, et albi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἑόρακα τὴν νύκτα, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ἳππον πυρρόν, καὶ οὗτος ἱστήκει ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀρέων τῶν κατασκίων, καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἵπποι πυρροὶ καὶ ψαροὶ καὶ ποικίλοι καὶ λευκοί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רָאִ֣יתִי הַלַּ֗יְלָה וְהִנֵּה אִישׁ֙ רֹכֵב֙ עַל ס֣וּס אָדֹ֔ם וְה֣וּא עֹמֵ֔ד בֵּ֥ין הַהֲדַסִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּמְּצֻלָ֑ה וְאַחֲרָיו֙ סוּסִ֣ים אֲדֻמִּ֔ים שְׂרֻקִּ֖ים וּלְבָנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
A man. An angel in the shape of a man. It was probably St. Michael, the guardian angel of the Church of God. (Challoner)
It is plain that he was an angel, ver. 11. (Worthington)
He appears in obscurity, to shew the distress of the nation. (Calmet)
Among. Septuagint, "between two shady mountains." (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.