The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 2: Commonly Called the MinorSmith, George Adam
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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 2: Commonly Called the Minor
Smith, George Adam
Bible. Minor Prophets -- Commentaries
[638] Hiller, _Onom. Sacrum_, Tüb., 1706 (quoted by Andrée), and Pusey.
[639] חַגִּיָּה, see 1 Chron. vi. 15; Greek Ἁγγια, Lu. Ἀναια.
[640] Köhler, _Nachexil. Proph._, I. 2; Wellhausen in fourth edition of
Bleek’s _Einleitung_; Robertson Smith, _Encyc. Brit._, art. “Haggai.”
[641] חגריה = _Jehovah hath girded_.
[642] Derenbourg, _Hist. de la Palestine_, pp. 95, 150.
[643] Jerome, Gesenius, and most moderns.
[644] As in the names קַלַּי ,כְּלוּבַי ,בַּרְזִלַּי, etc.
[645] The radical double _g_ of which appears in composition.
[646] _Op. cit._, p. 8.
[647] i. 1, the new moon; ii. 1, the seventh day of the Feast of
Tabernacles; ii. 18, the foundation of the Temple (?).
[648] Baba-bathra, 15_a_, etc.
[649] Megilla, 2_b_.
[650] Hesychius: see above, p. 80, n.
[651] Augustine, _Enarratio in Psalm cxlvii._
[652] Pseud-Epiphanius, _De Vitis Prophetarum_.
[653] Jerome on Hag. i. 13.
[654] Eusebius did not find these titles in the Hexaplar Septuagint.
See Field’s _Hexaplar_ on Psalm cxlv. 1. The titles are of course
wholly without authority.
[655] Pseud-Epiphanius, as above.
[656] So Ewald, Wildeboer (p. 295) and others.
CHAPTER XVIII
_HAGGAI AND THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE_
HAGGAI i., ii.
We have seen that the most probable solution of the problems presented
to us by the inadequate and confused records of the time is that a
considerable number of Jewish exiles returned from Jerusalem to Babylon
about 537, upon the permission of Cyrus, and that the Satrap whom he
sent with them not only allowed them to raise the altar on its ancient
site, but himself laid for them the foundation-stone of the Temple.[657]
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