Commentary on Haggai

Jerome (342–420)

S. Eusebius Hieronymus, the Priest of Stridon, one book of Commentaries on the Prophet Haggai to Paula and Eustochium

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

1:1

1:2

1:3

1:4

1:5-6

1:17-18

1:9

1:10

1:11

1:13

1:13

1:14

2:1-10

2:11-16

2:17-18

2:19-20

2:21-23

Prologue

In the second year of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, king of the Persians, the seventieth year of the desolation of the temple was completed (which Jeremiah prophesied in chapter 25). The prophet Zechariah also bears witness, who, when he had placed the title of his Vision in the second year of the same king, on the eleventh month of the Sabbath, on the twenty-fourth day, added, saying: O Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you are angry? This is the seventieth year (Zechariah 1:7,12). But even Ezra, after the altar had been built and the foundation of the temple had been laid, refers to the prohibited work in the letter of King Artaxerxes: Then the work of the house of God in Jerusalem was interrupted, and it was not carried out until the second year of the reign of Darius, king of…

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