Joshua the high priest stands before God in filthy garments while Satan actively accuses him, only to have the accusation dismissed and his clothes replaced with clean ones. 'The Branch' gets introduced here as a coming figure, a term that recurs acr...
Mystical & Allegorical<b>to accuse him</b> To accuse him because his sons were married to gentile women, as it is written in the Book of Ezra (10:18): “And it was found of the sons of the priests who had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, etc.”
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