Hageo 2:14

14 Entonces volvió a hablar Hageo y dijo: "Así es este pueblo y así es esta nación delante de mí"declara el SEÑOR"y así es toda obra de sus manos; y lo que aquí ofrecen, inmundo es.

Hageo 2:14 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai, and said
To the priests, and before the people; and made an application of these things to them, which was the thing in view in putting the questions: So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the
Lord;
not only those people that were present and at work at the temple, but those that were absent, even the whole body of the people; who, though they were pure in their own eyes, yet were not so before the Lord; who knew their hearts, and the spring of all their actions; what were their ends and views in all they did: as a garment carrying in it holy flesh could not sanctify other things touched by it that were common and profane, but left them as they were; so their ritual devotions, and externally holy actions, did not and could not sanctify their impure hearts, but left them as unclean as before; nor did they sanctify their common mercies, their bread, pottage, wine, and oil: and, on the other hand, as an impure person made everything impure he touched; so they, being impure in heart, all their actions, even their religious ones, were impure also, as follows: and so [is] every work of their hands; and that which they offer
there [is] unclean;
pointing at the altar, which they had built, and offered sacrifice on ever since they came out of Babylon, though the temple was not yet built, ( Ezra 3:3-6 ) but all their outward religious services, and all the sacrifices they offered up, were in the Lord's account impure and abominable, as well as themselves; coming from an unsanctified heart, and offered up with unclean hands, and without repentance towards God, and faith in Christ; and living in other respects in disobedience to God, and especially while they neglected the building of the temple; satisfying themselves with offering sacrifices on the altar, when the house of God lay desolate; which is the principal thing respected, as appears by what follows.

Hageo 2:14 In-Context

12 'Si alguno lleva carne consagrada en la falda de su vestidura, y toca con su falda pan, alimento cocido, vino, aceite o cualquier otro alimento, ¿quedará éste consagrado?' Y los sacerdotes respondieron, y dijeron: No.

13 Y dijo Hageo: Si alguno, inmundo por el contacto con un cadáver, toca cualquiera de estas cosas, ¿quedará inmunda? Respondieron los sacerdotes, y dijeron: Quedará inmunda.

14 Entonces volvió a hablar Hageo y dijo: "Así es este pueblo y así es esta nación delante de mí"declara el SEÑOR"y así es toda obra de sus manos; y lo que aquí ofrecen, inmundo es.

15 "Ahora pues, considerad bien esto de hoy en adelante: antes que se pusiera piedra sobre piedra en el templo del SEÑOR,

16 desde aquel tiempo, venía alguno a un montón de veinte medidas, y había solo diez; venía alguno al lagar para sacar cincuenta cántaros, y había solo veinte.