The Pulpit Commentary on Haggai 2:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Consider now from this day and upward (see note on Haggai 2:15.) For "upward" Jerome has here in futurum, though he translated the same word supra in Haggai 2:15. Such a rendering is allowable, and affords a good sense, the prophet directing the people's attention to the happy prospect in the future announced in Haggai 2:19.

But it seems, best to keep to the same interpretation in two passages so closely allied. The prophet bids the people consider the period from the present, the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, when this prophecy was uttered (Haggai 2:10), to the other limit explanatory of the term "upward" or "backward."

Even from the day that the foundation, etc.; rather, since the day that, etc. This is obviously the same period as that named in Haggai 2:15, after the foundation was completed, but before "stone was laid upon stone" of the superstructure (comp.

Zechariah 8:9).

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