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Annotatio CCLIX — 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.

Footnotes

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