Aggeus 2:20
Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day I will bless you.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid jam semen in germine est, et adhuc vinea, et ficus, et malogranatum, et lignum olivæ non floruit ? ex die ista benedicam.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Aggeus 2:19
- εἰ ἐπιγνωσθήσεται ἐπὶ τῆς ἅλω, καὶ εἰ ἔτι ἡ ἄμπελος καὶ ἡ συκῆ καὶ ἡ ῥόα καὶ τὰ ξύλα τῆς ἐλαίας τὰ οὐ φέροντα καρπόν· ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης εὐλογήσω.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Aggeus 2:19
- הַע֤וֹד הַזֶּ֨רַע֙ בַּמְּגוּרָ֔ה וְעַד הַגֶּ֨פֶן וְהַתְּאֵנָ֧ה וְהָרִמּ֛וֹן וְעֵ֥ץ הַזַּ֖יִת לֹ֣א נָשָׂ֑א מִן הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה אֲבָרֵֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Sprung up. Hebrew, "in the granary," or cave, magura, whence the African magaria, or huts, are derived. Chaldean and Septuagint, "barn floor," as it was commonly adjoining to these huts. Some have, "in blade." But this seems to be the sense: the corn is not yet sown, nor the trees in blossom, yet I announce great fertility next year. He spoke in November, during which and the following month the seed was committed to the earth, in Palestine, as (Calmet) it was in Egypt, the wheat ripening in seven months, (Pliny, [Natural History?] xviii. 7.) and being cut towards the end of June. (St. Jerome)
Aggeus probably composed the Psalm lxiv., to thank God for this fertility.
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.