Annotation CCLIX, On the Trinity (Zechariah 4:3, 4)

“What are these two olive-trees, on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?”

Annotatio CCLIX

”What are these two olive-trees, on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?” — Zechariah 4:3, 4

Origen, in the commentaries on Zechariah, interprets the two olive-trees [as] the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the lamp, or candlestick, which is in the midst of them, [as] God the Father.¹ Jerome, in book 1 on Zechariah, confesses that he knows not how, without blasphemy, the Son and the Holy Spirit — the one on the right, the other on the left — may be so said.

Left margin: On the Trinity. (De Trinitate.) ↩

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCLIX, On the Trinity (Zechariah 4:3, 4),” in Annotations on the Old Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/260-annotation-cclix-on-the-trinity-zechariah-4-3-4/.

Annotation CCLIX, On the Trinity (Zechariah 4:3, 4)

Annotatio CCLIX

”What are these two olive-trees, on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?” — Zechariah 4:3, 4

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