haggai 2:5 9 commentary

{See Trapp on "Genesis 1:1"} Elihu speaks of the Almighty his makers, Job 35:10. Isaiah hath his Trisagion, or, "Holy, holy, holy," Isaiah 6:3 In Isaiah 42:5 "Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and they that stretched them out." So my spirit.—Better, and my spirit. book 5: sect. 3. 1 Chronicles 17:19, and in the New, Luke 1:1-80 : 2 John 1:1, 1 John 5:7. The abrupt form rejects it as shocking. We all know the difference between the reading of the Word of God without Divine illumination, and with it. The returnees could identify with their forefathers who departed from Egypt because they had recently departed from another captivity in Babylon. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s presence and power in the Church is not less vital to her interests than the doctrine of salvation by the finished work of Christ. So here, “The word which I covenanted with you,” i. e. this, “I will be with you,” was the central all-containing promise, to which God pledged Himself when He brought them out of Egypt. Haggai 2 Commentary - Adam Clarke Commentary Chapter Contents. By the instrumentality of the two prophets who have been mentioned the Jews were encouraged to begin to rebuild the house of God, and to persevere in the work till it was accomplished. Unlike the often repeated “do not fear” of Isaiah (e.g., Isaiah 7:4; 35:4; 40:9 and Haggai 2:5), “take courage” (verse 4), echoing Haggai 1:13, reads here as Tim Meadowcroft sees it, as “be strong and effective.” 1 (20-23) Commentary on Haggai 2:1-9 (Read Haggai 2:1-9) Those who are hearty in the Lord's service shall receive encouragement to proceed. Greater glory promised to the second temple than to the first. when ye came, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:51). The Spirit of God is God the Holy Spirit, with His manifold gifts. 3. Translators could also find the translated Bible text useful, as the writer translated from the Hebrew text. So the Psalmist says, “There” (at the dividing of the Red Sea and the Jordan) “do we rejoice in Him,” as if present there; and our Lord promises to the Apostles, Matthew 28:20. 1. Isaiah 63:10-14. Besides such promises of God’s abiding favour as Exodus 29:45-46, they have among them the abiding presence of His Holy Spirit. This work by an expert in exegesis, history, and critical study is a translation from the German Biblischer Kommentar series. Ver. This message came about two months after the message of 2:1-9). In a similar way the people of God have been tried in all ages. Then foes conspired, the king’s courage retraced His throne against the enterprise arrayed, And now self-seeking apathy in vain all hearts The pulse grows faint, the will unbraced They rear their houses, let God’s house lie waste. Bible commentary on the Book of Haggai, chapter 2, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. (W. According to the Word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt,.... Or rather, "with the Word, in or with whom I covenanted"F7את הדבר אשר כרתי "cum verbo quo pepigeram", Junius & Tremellius; "cum verbo illo quo pepigi", Varenius; approved of by Reinbeck, Append. (1-9) Their sins hindered the work. 2. Certainly there were some old men who had seen Solomon’s temple in its splendor. In confirmation of this promise the Lord adds, that the word which He concluded with them on their coming out of Egypt, and His Spirit, will continue among them. Fear not, for the existence of God’s Church among you is of some importance to the surrounding locality. Haggai 2:5-9. We are to mention some evidences of the spirit’s remaining among a people, or in the Church of Christ. It is the duty of the Church thus favoured so to receive that Word as to embrace the whole system of revealed truth. The prophets were Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Barachiah. de Accent. Exodus 19:4-6; Exodus 33:14). 2:9 "the latter glory of this house will be greater than the former" This must be interpreted in light of two contexts: 1. return from exile and later to Herod's temple. Haggai 2:17 - I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the Lord . The gift which the text promises I should desire most for the welfare of this, or any other church. Wolff sees three layers of composition from Haggai to the final writer. Haggai 2:5 [According to] the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. That exile began in 587 B.C. Haggai 2:3, 4. He is the Lord, the Giver of Life; as the soul is in the body so God the Holy Ghost is in the Church, Himself its life, and bestowing on all and each every good gift as each and all have need. But they are gone! Haggai 2:9 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament Jehovah can fill this house with glory, because the silver and gold which the heathen nations possess belong to Him. On Whitsunday, the Sunday which begins the Ember week, the week of special preparation for the Christian ministry, we may well again repeat our belief in the old teaching of the Christian Church: that the ministry which we have is according to the will of Christ our Lord, and actuated by the Divine Presence of God the Holy Ghost. 2 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? For I am with you . The one found here is a concluding phrase, like Hag. saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work.’ It is an exhortation, not only to work, but to combined, united work. 3. The common thornbush of the desert, burning, yet unconsumed. Jerome, Albertus, Nyssen, and Haymo dissent not. It should be the same with us now. The great truth which this promise forces upon our attention. Haggai was a post-exile returnee to the land of Israel whose main ministry was to encourage the people to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and to let them know that God was with them and would help them. 520-516) after the Babylonian Exile. There were various reasons for this, such as the vexatious opposition which their enemies carried on against them, and the mean appearance of their work in comparison with the grandeur of the former temple built by Solomon. ', To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, I. For us who are spared to give thanks again another year to Almighty God for the fullness of His great Pentecostal gift, II. App-92. Compare Nehemiah 9:20. See Haggai, Haggai 1:6; Haggai 1:11; Haggai 2:16; Haggai 2:19. As the Lord had been with them in the cloudy pillar, so He was with them now. It is said of Achilles that he was Styge armatus, and therefore could not be wounded. Where He is, is all good. Others observe that the last letters in the original, both in the word "hear" and in the word "one," are bigger than ordinary; as calling for utmost heed and attention. The Spirit of God is God the Holy Ghost, with His manifold gifts; where He is, is all good, there is life, and light, and fire of Love. There was so much that was external, formal, and typical that the great truth of the absolute necessity of spiritual influence was apt to be laid aside and forgotten. The omnipotence of God can and will carry out His word, and glorify His temple. Basic Questions, Advanced Questions, Question formats A. Identifying the Problem (Haggai 1:1-11) B. www.easyenglish.bible. The same warning is implied in other words of our Lord regarding His own ministry. And yet while we cannot speak of all, or of many of the operations of the Holy Spirit, one, and that a most principal one, the Church brings again prominently before us to-day; to-day is Whitsuntide and also the beginning of Ember week, the week that is set apart by the Church, with special prayer and fasting, in preparation for the ordination next Sunday. But above and beyond all gifts He is present as the Spirit of holiness and love, making the Church and those in whom He individually dwells, acceptable to God. Amos declared: In this verse is the promise that God meant all he ever said. Only he, not very intelligibly, makes it a sort of oath, By the word, By that which the Lord hath given us. But while we wish to lay to heart the Lord’s dealings, and justly fear that His servants are taken away from the evil to come, we ought not to give way to desponding fears as to the Lord’s cause and work. That I covenanted with you; in solemnest manner reduced to the form and model of a covenant, that it might be sure and firm to you, as to your fathers, in whose time I made this covenant, and with you in them. The clause is connected with the closing words of Haggai 2:4. 3. So - or, and, connecting "I am with you" (Haggai 2:4) and "my Spirit remaineth among you;" "according to the word that I covenanted with you" being in a parenthesis. p. 76, 77. , &c. as some render it; that is, Christ, the essential Word, who was promised to the people of Israel at that time, Deuteronomy 18:15 and in whom all the promises are, and the covenant of grace itself; and which covenant was indeed made with him from eternity, but was made manifest, or more clearly manifest, to the Jewish ancestors, when they came out of Egypt: now it is here promised, for the encouragement of the Jews to go in the work of the Lord in building the temple, that this divine Word should be with them also, to counsel, assist, strengthen, and protect them; even he who went before their fathers in the wilderness in a pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night; the Angel of God's presence, that redeemed, saved, and carried them all the days of old; the Word that was in the beginning with God, and was God; and by whom all things were created at first; and who would, as since he has, become flesh, and dwell among them, and appear in this very temple they were now building; and who will be with all his churches, ministers, and people, unto the end of the world: so my Spirit remaineth among you: or rather, "and", or "also, my Spirit standeth", continueth "in the midst of you"F8ורוחי עמדת בתוככם "et Spiritus meus stat in medio vestri", Pagninus, Cocceius; "stana", Montanus; "Spiritus quoque meus stabit in medio vestrum", Vatablus. We have not, we fear, improved our privileges aright, nor rendered unto the Lord according to the benefits we have received; and in judgment the Lord has recalled His gifts. 3. 2. At that time the prophetical, priestly, and kingly offices were all filled by eminent men. I covenanted with you: or, supply the Ellipsis thus: "[I remember", or "Remember ye] the word which I", &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 29:45, Exodus 29:46). According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt - literally, (I am with you), 'the word (or thing) which I covenanted' - i:e., I am with you as I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt (Exodus 19:5-6; Exodus 24:10-11). According to the word that — literally, “(I am with you) the word (or thing) which I covenanted”; that is, I am with you as I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt (Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6; Exodus 34:10, Exodus 34:11). We shall only add--, 4. My spirit, of strength and courage, of wisdom and understanding, of zeal and fervency, to carry you through this work, remaineth among you; still doth dwell in you, shall be continued to you, and give direction and success. 3. Purity of doctrine and worship is also spoken of by Christ as the effect of His Spirit’s presence in the Church, when He says of Him, “He shall glorify Me for He shall take of Mine and shall show it unto you,” and “He shall testify of Me, and shall lead you into all truth.” Men may be as zealous as they choose, and as fervid and fervent about their own devices and inventions in God’s worship as they will; but, departing from the rule of the Divine Word, they are under the guidance only of their own spirits. Having these, let them not be afraid. . iii. We cannot speak of them all; but of one point in reference to all we should make sure, that the Holy Spirit is the author of them all; so varied, so wonderful, so beautiful are the manifold Divine intricacies in which we live, that it is in some sense not wonderful if man becomes absorbed and confounded in his researches and discoveries in the things which he sees. He speaks to them as being one with those who came up out of Egypt, as if they were the very persons. The fear occasioned by open and secret enemies to the work and cause of God. Haggai 2:1-9 (Haggai 2:1) In the second year of King Darius, in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying: Some have placed this date as October 17, 520 B.C. The evidence of the Divine Presence was the mission of inspired prophets, such as Haggai and Zechariah, and the Targum and the Rabbis are perhaps right in referring the words “and my spirit” exclusively to the “spirit of prophecy.” It may be noticed that the later Jews held that the Holy Spirit left the Church after the deaths of Zechariah and Malachi. They are busily engaged in their own pursuits, but are putting off the demands and claims of Almighty God. . The conduct of God towards His Church in ancient time is an ennobling and a comforting study: ennobling because it brings His character before our view in a light in which we cannot see it in the fields of nature and in the works of creation; comforting because it brings to our view God in all those glorious relations which nature has no know ledge of. Do not fear.’ 6 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. Sometimes affliction detains them for a long time from countenancing and encouraging by their presence those who delight in their company, and hold them in high esteem for their steadfast attachment to the truth and fidelity to the cause of Christ. The Lord reiterated the promise He had made to the Israelites when they left Egypt in the Exodus. 2:5) in the person of His chosen One (cf. How else should they be able to perform their part of the covenant, since we cannot so much as suspirare unless he do first inspirare, breathe out a sigh for sin till he breathe it in to us by his Spirit? Here we learn that the prophecy began in September, 520 B.C.i. And so, when the Lord’s people have His Spirit remaining among them, they have no reason to fear that the work and cause of God shall be overthrown, either by temporal or by spiritual enemies. And my Spirit remains among you. when the Babylonians, led by Nebuchadnezzar, sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, killed many of the people, and led most of the rest into exile in Babylonia. Haggai 1:12—2:3. This would be the rather done in speaking to the people, as David to his followers (1 Samuel 30:23, which Ewald compares, Lehrb. Doctrin. But, more particularly, the Spirit’s presence in the Church is fitted to remove--. Bible Study Software. I. Genre Prophetic oracle of blessing introduced by narrative prose Determine the structure of the passage (v. 10) Na 3. The word, that Israel is the property of Jehovah, and Jehovah the God of Israel, still stands in undiminished force; and not only so, but His Spirit also still works in the midst of Israel. That kind of a kingdom was their idea, not God's; and, as a consequence, they arrogantly forsook their true religion, rebelled against God, forsook his holy law, and became as reprobate as the heathen; whereupon God destroyed their beloved worldly kingdoms which the people had come to idolize. The adaptation of the blessing to all times and all circumstances. Sticking with it when there are many valid reasons to quit is not so easy. The covenant promise of God to the elect people at Sinai is an additional motive for their persevering. References: Haggai 2:5-9. One evidence of this is--, 1. So my spirit.—Better, and my spirit. Whatever may be their number, influence, or power, however great their malice and crafty their devices, the Spirit of God is able to defeat them, for He is almighty, omniscient, and omnipotent, and He is possessed of every infinite perfection. He not only carries on all those operations in the soul which recover it from ignorance, and enmity, and unhappiness, and bring it to the knowledge, love, and enjoyment of God, but He carries on the good work which He has begun, until, it is perfected in complete conformity to the Divine image. If God’s Spirit is with us He reveals to us that we are in this world to do some good to our fellow-men. It is not a doctrine exclusively confined to the Christian economy, as some have supposed. He called the people to 'consider your ways' and to 'be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.' The state of the early Christian Church disproves it, when “the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul.”. See Hebrews 9:15, and take notice of the unity of the faith in both Testaments; they of old saw Christ afar off in the promises, they greeted him ( ασπασαμενοι), and were regreeted by him, Hebrews 11:13. Malachi 3:10-11 and Div. 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