Finally, the modern inference from chap. ii. 3, that Haggai in his youth had seen the former Temple, had gone into exile, and was now returned a very old man,[656] may be probable, but is not certain. We are quite ignorant of his age at the time the word of Jehovah came to him. FOOTNOTES: [615] In the English Bible the division corresponds to that of the Hebrew, which gives fifteen verses to chap. i. The LXX. takes the fifteenth verse along with ver. 1 of chap. ii. [616] ii. 9, 14: see on these passages, pp. 243, n. 685, 246, n. 700. [617] Besides the general works on the text of the Twelve Prophets, already cited, M. Tony Andrée has published _État Critique du Texte d’Aggée: Quatre Tableaux Comparatifs_ (Paris, 1893), which is also included in his general introduction and commentary on the prophet, quoted below. [618] Robertson Smith (_Encyc. Brit._, art. “Haggai,” 1880) does not even mention authenticity. “Without doubt from Haggai himself” (Kuenen). “The Book of Haggai is without doubt to be dated, according to its whole extant contents, from the prophet Haggai, whose work fell in the year 520” (König). So Driver, Kirkpatrick, Cornill, etc. [619] _Z.A.T.W._, 1887, 215 f. [620] So also Wellhausen. [621] Which occurs only in the LXX. [622] See note on that verse, n. 694 [623] Cf. Wildeboer, _Litter. des A. T._, 294. [624] _Le Prophète Aggée, Introduction Critique et Commentaire._ Paris, Fischbacher, 1893. [625] Page 151. [626] Below, p. 249. [627] i. 10, 11. [628] ii. 17. [629] They follow drought in Amos iv. 9; and in the other passages where they occur—Deut. xxviii. 22; 1 Kings viii. 37; 2 Chron. vi. 28—they are mentioned in a list of possible plagues after famine, or pestilence, or fevers, all of which, with the doubtful exception of fevers, followed drought. [630] Above, p. 216; below, p. 248, n. 708.