Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:18
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18. Resumed from :- after Haggai 2:16 ; Haggai 2:17 , that the blessing in Haggai 2:19 may stand in the more marked contrast with the curse in Haggai 2:16 ; Haggai 2:17 . Affliction will harden the heart, if not referred to God as its author [MOORE]. even from the day that the foundation of . . . temple was laid —The first foundation beneath the earth had been long ago laid in the second year of Cyrus, 535 B.C. ( Ezra 3:10 ; Ezra 3:11 ); the foundation now laid was the secondary one, which, above the earth, was laid on the previous work [TIRINUS]. Or, translate, "From this day on which the temple is being begun," namely, on the foundations long ago laid [GROTIUS]. MAURER translates, "Consider . . . from the four and twentieth day . . . to (the time which has elapsed) from the day on which the foundation . . . was laid." The Hebrew supports English Version. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-19" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological