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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Haggai</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>H A G G A I.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HE</FONT> captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable
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turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy.
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It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Mt+1:17">Matt. i. 17</A>.
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Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto
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consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them
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had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just
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punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the
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Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it revived in Christ's
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forerunner) lived and preached after the return out of captivity, not
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immediately upon it, but some time after. Haggai and Zechariah appeared
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much about the same time, eighteen years after the return, when the
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building of the temple was both retarded by its enemies and neglected
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by its friends. <I>Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah
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the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Jerusalem, in
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the name of the God of Israel, even unto them</I> (so we read
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+5:1">Ezra v. 1</A>),
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to reprove them for their remissness, and to encourage them to revive
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that good work when it had stood still for some time, and to go on with
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it vigorously, notwithstanding the opposition they met with in it.
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Haggai began two months before Zechariah, who was raised up to second
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him, that out of the mouth of two witnesses the word might be
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established. But Zechariah continued longer at the work; for all
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Haggai's prophecies that are recorded were delivered within four
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months, in the second year of Darius, between the beginning of the
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sixth month and the end of the ninth. But we have Zechariah's
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prophecies dated above two years after,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Zec+7:1">Zech. vii. 1</A>.
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Some have the honour to lead, others to last, in the work of God. The
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Jews ascribe to these two prophets the honour of being members of the
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great synagogue (as they call it), which was formed after the return
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out of captivity; we think it more certain, and it was their honour,
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and a much greater honour, that they prophesied of Christ. Haggai
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spoke of him as the <I>glory of the latter house,</I> and Zechariah as
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<I>the man, the branch.</I> In them the light of that morning star
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shone more brightly than in the foregoing prophecies, as they lived
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nearer the time of the rising of the Sun of righteousness, and now
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began to see his day approaching. The LXX. makes Haggai and Zechariah
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to be the penmen of
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+138:1-8">Ps. cxxxviii.</A>
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and of
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+146:1-148:14">Ps. cxlvi.,
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cxlvii., and cxlviii.</A></P>
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