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Haggai","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF AGGEUS\n\nAGGEUS was one of those that returned from the captivity of Babylon, in\nthe first year of the reign of king Cyrus. He was sent by the Lord, in\nthe second year of the reign of king Darius, the son of Hystaspes, to\nexhort Zorobabel the prince of Juda, and Jesus the high priest, to the\nbuilding of the temple; which they had begun, but left off again through\nthe opposition of the Samaritans. In consequence of this exhortation\nthey proceeded in the building and finished the temple. And the prophet\nwas commissioned by the Lord to assure them that this second temple\nshould be more glorious than the former, because the Messiah should\nhonour it with his presence: signifying withal how much the church of\nthe New Testament should excel that of the Old Testament.\n\n\nAggeus Chapter 1\n\nThe people are reproved for neglecting to build the temple. They are\nencouraged to set about the work.\n\n1:1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the\nfirst day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus\nthe prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, governor of Juda, and to\nJesus the son of Josedec the high priest, saying:\n\n1:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time\nis not yet come for building the house of the Lord.\n\n1:3. And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet,\nsaying:\n\n1:4. Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie\ndesolate?\n\n1:5. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider\nyour ways.\n\n1:6. You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but\nhave not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with\ndrink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he\nthat hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.\n\n1:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:\n\n1:8. Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build the house: and it\nshall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.\n\n1:9. You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you\nbrought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts?\nbecause my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own\nhouse.\n\n1:10. Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and\nthe earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:\n\n1:11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains,\nand upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all\nthat the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon\nall the labour of the hands.\n\n1:12. Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec\nthe high priest, and all the remnant of the people hearkened to the\nvoice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Aggeus the prophet, as\nthe Lord their God sent him to them: and the people feared before the\nLord.\n\n1:13. And Aggeus the messenger of the Lord, as one of the messengers of\nthe Lord, spoke, saying to the people: I am with you, saith the Lord.\n\n1:14. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of\nSalathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec\nthe high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and they\nwent in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God.\n\nAggeus Chapter 2\n\nChrist by his coming shall make the latter temple more glorious than the\nformer. The blessing of God shall reward their labour in building. God's\npromise to Zorobabel.\n\n2:1. In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in\nthe second year of Darius the king, they began.\n\n2:2. And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of\nAggeus the prophet, saying:\n\n2:3. Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and\nto Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the\npeople, saying:\n\n2:4. Who is left among you, that saw this house in its first glory? and\nhow do you see it now? is it not in comparison to that as nothing in\nyour eyes?\n\n2:5. Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take\ncourage, Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all\nye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am\nwith you, saith the Lord of hosts)\n\n2:6. The word that I convenanted with you when you came out of the land\nof Egypt: and my spirit shall be in the midst of you: fear not.\n\n2:7. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will\nmove the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.\n\n2:8. And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL\nCOME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:9. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:10. Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the\nfirst, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace,\nsaith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:11. In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second\nyear of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Aggeus the\nprophet, saying:\n\n2:12. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:\n\n2:13. If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and\ntouch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat:\nshall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.\n\n2:14. And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul\ntouch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests\nanswered, and said: It shall be defiled.\n\nBy occasion of a soul... That is, by having touched the dead; in which\ncase, according to the prescription of the law, Num. 19.13, 22, a person\nnot only became unclean himself, but made every thing that he touched\nunclean. The prophet applies all this to the people, whose souls\nremained unclean by neglecting the temple of God; and therefore were not\nsanctified by the flesh they offered in sacrifice: but rather defiled\ntheir sacrifices by approaching to them in the state of uncleanness.\n\n2:15. And Aggeus answered, and said: So is this people, and so is this\nnation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the work of their\nhands: and all that they have offered there, shall be defiled.\n\n2:16. And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before\nthere was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.\n\n2:17. When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten:\nand you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became\ntwenty.\n\n2:18. I struck you with a blasting wind, and all the works of your hand\nwith the mildew and with hail, yet there was none among you that\nreturned to me, saith the Lord.\n\n2:19. Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four and\ntwentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of\nthe temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.\n\n2:20. Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree,\nand the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day\nI will bless you.\n\n2:21. And the word of the Lord came a second time to Aggeus in the four\nand twentieth day of the month, saying:\n\n2:22. Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will move both\nheaven and earth.\n\n2:23. And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and will destroy the\nstrength of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the\nchariot, and him that rideth therin: and the horses and their riders\nshall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.\n\n2:24. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O\nZorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will\nmake thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nO Zorobabel... This promise principally relates to Christ, who was of\nthe race of Zorobabel.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 42: Aggeus: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1582}