| Haggai 1:2
| Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.
| Yet come. God's service must be restored without delay, and manners reformed; as otherwise many will be lost eternally. (Worthington) --- The Jews refrained from commencing the temple till the time marked out by Jeremias 25:11., and Zacharias 1:7. (Calmet) --- From the beginning of the last siege sixty-nine years had elapsed. (Usher, year of the world 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.
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