Abstract
This article proposes that direct speech begins immediately after the words thus says the Lord in Zech. ii 12. It follows that the word ?, understood as honour, is the logical subject of the verb he/it has sent me while God is its natural object. The verb send is further understood in a figurative sense commission, and the following preposition ? is translated as against. In this way, Zech. ii 12 is a metaphorical expression describing how God is sent by (His) honour to proclaim punishment for the nations. Such a reading fits well with the rest of Zech. i-viii (e.g. Zech. i 7-17): having let His own people being deported and His temple destroyed, God's honour was at stake. A similar idea is found in Ezekiel (e.g. Ez. xx 44).
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