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Haggai
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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, See also: Ezra 2:2Ezra 3:2Ezra 3:8“This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the LORD’s house to be built.’” See also: Ezra 4:23Nehemiah 4:10Ecclesiastes 9:10Then the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying, See also: Ezra 5:1Zechariah 1:1“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? See also: 2 Samuel 7:2Psalms 132:3-5Philippians 2:21Now therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways. See also: Lamentations 3:402 Corinthians 13:5Haggai 2:15-18You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’ See also: Haggai 1:9Deuteronomy 28:38-40Hosea 4:10“This is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways. See also: Psalms 119:59-60Haggai 1:5Philippians 3:1Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says the LORD. See also: Psalms 132:13-142 Chronicles 7:162 Chronicles 2:8-10“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. See also: Haggai 1:4Revelation 3:19Haggai 2:16-17Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. See also: 1 Kings 8:35Leviticus 26:191 Kings 17:1I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.” See also: Haggai 2:17Deuteronomy 28:221 Kings 17:1Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the LORD their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared the LORD. See also: Isaiah 50:10Haggai 1:14Ezra 5:2Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, spoke the LORD’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 43:2Matthew 28:20Romans 8:31The LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of Armies, their God, See also: Hebrews 13:212 Chronicles 36:22Haggai 2:21in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. See also: Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:20Haggai 2:1
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the book
THE PROPHECY OF AGGEUS.
PREFACE.
Aggeus was one of those that returned from the captivity of Babylon, in the first year of the reign of king Cyrus. He was sent by the Lord in the second year of the reign of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, to exhort Zorobabel, the prince of Juda, and Jesus, the high priest, to the building of the temple; which they had begun, but left off again through opposition of the Samaritans. In consequence of this exhortation, they proceeded in the building, and finished the temple. And the prophet was commissioned by the Lord to assure them that this second temple should be more glorious than the former, because the Messias should honour it with his presence; signifying, withal, how much the Church of the new testament should excel that of the old testament. Ch. ---
The glory of the Catholic Church hence appears. W. --- We know little of the life of Aggeus. It is thought that he was born in captivity. C. --- He came into Judea eighteen years after its termination, (W.) in the second year of Hystaspes, when the seventy years of the temple's desolation ended. Zac. i. 12. and 1 Esd.
v. The people had courage to obey the word of the prophets rather than the king's edict. Aggeus means feasting, (S. Jer.) or pleasant. He brings joyful tidings, after rebuking the people for preferring their own convenience before the house of God. H.
Haggai 1:1
Ver. 1. Darius Hystaspes. C. --- When the Jews had no king, the prophets dated from the reign of the monarch on whom they were dependent. Theod. --- Sixth; Elul, the last of the civil year, corresponding with our September. The harvest had been bad, and Aggeus assigns the reason. C.
--- Governor. Lit. "duke," or captain. Sept. "of the tribe of Juda." H. --- He descended from the kings of Juda, and was now chief governor by leave of Darius. W. --- Yet Cyrus had appointed Sarasar, (1 Esd. i. 8.) who perhaps, after the death of Cambyses, fled; Zorobabel and Jesus are designated judges, and a crown is made for them. C. ii. 24. Zac. iii. and vi. 11. Still Thartanai, governor beyond the Euphrates, took cognizance of the Jewish affairs. 1 Esd. v. 3. The prince of Juda was therefore under him. Zorobabel was son or grandson of Salathiel, (1 Par. iii. 17.) or was adopted by him, being born of Phadaia. C. ---
Josedec, who was led into captivity. 1 Par. vi. 15.
↑ 1Haggai 1:2
Ver. 2. Yet come. God's service must be restored without delay, and manners reformed; as otherwise many will be lost eternally. W. --- The Jews refrained from commencing the temple till the time marked out by Jeremias, xxv. 11. Zac.
i. 7. C. --- From the beginning of the last siege sixty-nine years had elapsed.
Usher, A. 3485. --- Others, reflecting on the obstacles placed by Cyrus and Cambyses, thought it was not yet time to work at the temple: but these were only pretexts. The kingdom was now held by another family, and the former decrees abolished. Fear of labour, therefore, was the only impediment.
↑ 2Haggai 1:4
Ver. 4. Ceiled: superbly adorned. Heb. "covered." You are not content with what is merely necessary, while the temple lies in ruins. C.
↑ 4Haggai 1:5
Ver. 5. Ways. Sound the real motives of your neglect. H. --- See if your misfortunes do not originate in this cause, and if God does not require you to build the temple. v. 9. C.
↑ 5Haggai 1:6
Ver. 6. Filled. Lit. "inebriated," (H.) so as to become cheerful. S. Jer.
↑ 6Haggai 1:8
Ver. 8. The mountain Libanus. Wood had been purchased before, but had been used for other purposes. 1 Esd. iii. 7. Now the people went to procure more.
The following year Darius confirmed the decree of Cyrus, which was a change plainly effected by Providence. C.
↑ 8Haggai 1:11
Ver. 11. Drought. Heb. choreb, (H.) is rendered the sword, by the Sept. and may best signify "a burning wind," according to the different pronunciation. S. Jer.
--- This was not then determined by the vowel points (C.) of the Masora. Soph.
ii. 14. H.
↑ 11Haggai 1:13
Ver. 13. Messenger. To excite the people's attention, Aggeus declares that he is sent by God, (W.) like the prophets of old. Some Jews have asserted (C.) that he, Malachias, the Baptist, and Jacob, were angels incarnate. But let us leave (S. Jer.) these learned dreams. C. --- They have no better foundation than the ambiguity of malac, which signifies "an angel, or a messenger." H. --- With you.
This is often repeated, to encourage the dejected people. M.
↑ 13Haggai 1:14
Ver. 14. Work. Sept. "works." H. --- They prepared materials, and began the temple on the 24th of the ninth month. C. ii. 16. 19. M.
↑ 14License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses