Verse 11
The faithful Israelites who were listening to Zechariah, the afflicted of God’s flock (cf. Zechariah 11:7), realized that what he had done in breaking the staff was in harmony with the word of the Lord. Another view is that the afflicted were a group within Zechariah’s society, not the whole postexilic community. [Note: McComiskey, p. 1194.] God had promised in the Mosaic Law that if His people apostatized He would cast them off, temporarily, and allow the nations to punish them (cf. Matthew 23:13; Matthew 23:23-24; Matthew 23:33-39).
"The ’poor of the flock’ i.e. the ’remnant according to the election of grace’ (Romans 11:5), are those Jews who did not wait for the manifestation of Christ in glory but believed on Him at His first coming and subsequently. Of them it is said that they ’waited upon me,’ and ’knew.’" [Note: The New Scofield . . ., p. 973.]
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