5. _Thou hast built_, saith the Prophet, _a house, measure the upper chambers of it, even airy chambers, furnished with windows, cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion_. Now he _measureth the upper chambers_, who, having contemplated the judgment of God, judgeth the judgment of the humble and the judgment of the poor. But he who seeks after gain and the blood of the innocent builds not his chambers with judgment, nor keeps the due measure, because he has not Christ, nor looks for the breath of Divine grace upon him, nor does he desire the brightness of full light, nor has he chambers painted with vermilion, for it cannot be said to him, _Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet_. Sidenote: Jer. xxii. 19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass. Engl. Vers. 6. _A man of this sort_, it is said, _shall not be buried_, for he who has burrowed in the earth, and buried himself alive, so to speak, in a tomb, has deprived himself when dead of the rest of burial. And thus, laid in the pit of carnal pleasures, he has found no grave from whence to rise. Such a man therefore builds no temple to God, because he hath not known the time of his correction. How then can such men build a temple, who like wild beasts betake themselves to dens and hiding places, who like serpents bury themselves in ditches, and burrow in the earth like crafty foxes? Sidenote: 1 Tim. v. 6. Sidenote: Ps. xlii. 5. Sidenote: S. Matt. vii. 7. 7. Neither does he build a sepulchre for himself who dies before the time, for _he is dead while he liveth_; and he hears not the voice of Haggai, that is being interpreted, of the Feaster, for he enters not the Tabernacle of God, _in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, the sound of one feasting_. For how can he hear His voice, who sees not His works? If he saw them, he would have heard the Word which has been put in His Hand, rejoicing in His acts, whereby _He knocked and it was opened to Him_, and He descended into his soul that He might feed therein upon the food of sincerity and truth. Sidenote: Hag. i. 8. 8. Now because he has not heard, the word of Haggai comes again to hand, and says, Rise up from your _cieled houses_ that are weighed down by wickedness, and _go up to the mountain_ of the heavenly Scriptures, and _hew wood_, the wood of wisdom, the wood of life, the wood of knowledge; and make straight your ways, direct your acts that they may keep their due order which is useful and necessary for building the house of God. Sidenote: Ib. 10.