Haggai 1:1-8
#452 Weekday Year I Context (Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time)
On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius,
The word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai
to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,
and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak:
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
This people says:
“The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”
(Then this word of the LORD came through Haggai, the prophet:)
Is it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses,
while this house lies in ruins?
Now thus says the LORD of hosts:
Consider your ways!
You have sown much, but have brought in little;
you have eaten, but have not been satisfied;
You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated;
have clothed yourselves, but not been warmed;
And whoever earned wages
earned them for a bag with holes in it.
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Consider your ways!
Go up into the hill country;
bring timber, and build the house
That I may take pleasure in it
and receive my glory, says the LORD.
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Commentary on Hg 1:1-8
The Prophet Haggai was the first (chronologicaly) of the Minor Prophets and a contemporary of Ezra. It is suggested that he was either a priest or a cultic prophet, heavily involved in temple worship.[1] Here the prophet calls on the people to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. This is his principal ministry and he sees that, while the foundation for the new temple has been laid (Ezra 3:7-13), nothing further has been done (Ezra 4). The excuse apparently presented by the people of being too poor is rejected by the prophet, and he accuses them of sloth in this effort. His strong message is: think of God before yourselves.
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**Haggai 1:15b-2:9
#453 Weekday Year I Context (Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time)
In the second year of King Darius,
on the twenty-first day of the seventh month,
the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
Tell this to the governor of Judah,
Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,
and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak,
and to the remnant of the people:
Who is left among you
that saw this house in its former glory?
And how do you see it now?
Does it not seem like nothing in your eyes?
But now take courage, Zerubbabel, says the LORD,
and take courage, Joshua, high priest, son of Jehozadak,
And take courage, all you people of the land,
says the LORD, and work!
For I am with you, says the LORD of hosts.
This is the pact that I made with you
when you came out of Egypt,
And my spirit continues in your midst;
do not fear!
For thus says the LORD of hosts:
One moment yet, a little while,
and I will shake the heavens and the earth,
the sea and the dry land.
I will shake all the nations,
and the treasures of all the nations will come in,
And I will fill this house with glory,
says the LORD of hosts.
Mine is the silver and mine the gold,
says the LORD of hosts.
Greater will be the future glory of this house
than the former, says the LORD of hosts;
And in this place I will give you peace,
says the LORD of hosts!
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Commentary on Hg 1:15b-2:9
The Prophet Haggai continues his prophecy regarding the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem with two additional statements. First, the second building of the temple should be even grander than that built originally by Solomon. And second, that God is with them in this great work and will find the means to support it financially.
From the Christian perspective, the return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the temple is prophetic of the coming of Christ into the world, and the building of the temple is symbolic of the building of his Church. ""The coming of the Lord into this world was like the building of a great temple, glorious beyond imagining; this temple is more perfect and beautiful than that of old, as the worship of Christ according to his Gospel is more perfect than the worship of God according to the law, as the reality is more beautiful than its image […]. The glory of the new temple, the Church, is much greater than the glory of the old. Those who give of themselves and work devoutly to build the new temple will receive Christ himself, as their reward from the Savoir and as a gift from heaven; he is our peace, the peace of all mankind, the one through whom we can go to the Father in the one Spirit. He himself said: and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts" (St Cyril of Alexandria, "Commentarius in Aggaeum", 14)." [2]
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** The citation for this reading is incorrect in the Lectionary but correct in the index
[1] Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall, Inc., © 1968, p.388, 6
[2] The Navarre Bible: “Minor Prophets”, Scepter Publishers, Princeton, NJ, © 2003, p. 282
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#452 Weekday Year I Context (Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time)
On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius,
The word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai
to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,
and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak:
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
This people says:
“The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”
(Then this word of the LORD came through Haggai, the prophet:)
Is it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses,
while this house lies in ruins?
Now thus says the LORD of hosts:
Consider your ways!
You have sown much, but have brought in little;
you have eaten, but have not been satisfied;
You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated;
have clothed yourselves, but not been warmed;
And whoever earned wages
earned them for a bag with holes in it.
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Consider your ways!
Go up into the hill country;
bring timber, and build the house
That I may take pleasure in it
and receive my glory, says the LORD.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Commentary on Hg 1:1-8
The Prophet Haggai was the first (chronologicaly) of the Minor Prophets and a contemporary of Ezra. It is suggested that he was either a priest or a cultic prophet, heavily involved in temple worship.[1] Here the prophet calls on the people to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. This is his principal ministry and he sees that, while the foundation for the new temple has been laid (Ezra 3:7-13), nothing further has been done (Ezra 4). The excuse apparently presented by the people of being too poor is rejected by the prophet, and he accuses them of sloth in this effort. His strong message is: think of God before yourselves.
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**Haggai 1:15b-2:9
#453 Weekday Year I Context (Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time)
In the second year of King Darius,
on the twenty-first day of the seventh month,
the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
Tell this to the governor of Judah,
Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,
and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak,
and to the remnant of the people:
Who is left among you
that saw this house in its former glory?
And how do you see it now?
Does it not seem like nothing in your eyes?
But now take courage, Zerubbabel, says the LORD,
and take courage, Joshua, high priest, son of Jehozadak,
And take courage, all you people of the land,
says the LORD, and work!
For I am with you, says the LORD of hosts.
This is the pact that I made with you
when you came out of Egypt,
And my spirit continues in your midst;
do not fear!
For thus says the LORD of hosts:
One moment yet, a little while,
and I will shake the heavens and the earth,
the sea and the dry land.
I will shake all the nations,
and the treasures of all the nations will come in,
And I will fill this house with glory,
says the LORD of hosts.
Mine is the silver and mine the gold,
says the LORD of hosts.
Greater will be the future glory of this house
than the former, says the LORD of hosts;
And in this place I will give you peace,
says the LORD of hosts!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Commentary on Hg 1:15b-2:9
The Prophet Haggai continues his prophecy regarding the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem with two additional statements. First, the second building of the temple should be even grander than that built originally by Solomon. And second, that God is with them in this great work and will find the means to support it financially.
From the Christian perspective, the return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the temple is prophetic of the coming of Christ into the world, and the building of the temple is symbolic of the building of his Church. ""The coming of the Lord into this world was like the building of a great temple, glorious beyond imagining; this temple is more perfect and beautiful than that of old, as the worship of Christ according to his Gospel is more perfect than the worship of God according to the law, as the reality is more beautiful than its image […]. The glory of the new temple, the Church, is much greater than the glory of the old. Those who give of themselves and work devoutly to build the new temple will receive Christ himself, as their reward from the Savoir and as a gift from heaven; he is our peace, the peace of all mankind, the one through whom we can go to the Father in the one Spirit. He himself said: and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts" (St Cyril of Alexandria, "Commentarius in Aggaeum", 14)." [2]
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** The citation for this reading is incorrect in the Lectionary but correct in the index
[1] Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall, Inc., © 1968, p.388, 6
[2] The Navarre Bible: “Minor Prophets”, Scepter Publishers, Princeton, NJ, © 2003, p. 282
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