Aggeus 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.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc ait Dominus exercituum, dicens : Populus iste dicit : Nondum venit tempus domus Domini ædificandæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ λέγων Ὁ λαὸς οὗτος λέγουσιν Οὐχ ἥκει ὁ καιρὸς τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹ֥א עֶת בֹּ֛א עֶת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה לְהִבָּנֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
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 xxv. 11., and Zacharias i. 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.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.