OLD TESTAMENT

Haggai 2:15

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15

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple.

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Verse 15. So. He makes the application of the second answer given, verse 14. All your victims have hitherto been contaminated. I redressed not your miseries. But now, as you have begun to work at my temple, I will remove the scourge. It is easy to apply the first answer, verse 13. Your victims have purified you no more than holy flesh wrapped up in a garment would sanctify it, ( Calmet.) or other things which it does not immediately touch. Bible.—Your bad dispositions render them useless. Jeremiah 11:15. The victims were also bad. Malachi 1:6. Calmet.

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