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 this question to Baumgarten's Die Nachtgeschichte Sacharias; Dr. C. H. H. Wright's Zechariah and his Prophecies; and to Dean Alford's note on the passage in Jude, where they will find the subject fully discussed. For my own part, while not committing myself to the allegorical interpretation of the passage in Jude, which may have reference to a very early tradition about a dispute about the literal body of Moses not recorded in any writing now extant, there can be no doubt that the incidents and the words of the vision we are considering were in the Apostle's mind when he wrote his short epistle. This is proved not only by his use of the formula, "The Lord rebuke thee," but by two other undoubted allusions to this vision in ver. 23 namely, the "pulling out of the fire," which is an echo of " the brand plucked from the fire" (Zech. iii. 2), and "the garment spotted by the flesh," which is an allusion to the " filthy garments " in which Joshua was at first seen standing before the Lord.