Aggeo 2:14

14 Allora Aggeo replicò e disse: Così è questo popolo, così è questa nazione nel mio cospetto, dice l’Eterno; e così è tutta l’opera delle loro mani; e tutto quello che m’offrono là è impuro.

Aggeo 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.

Aggeo 2:14 In-Context

12 Se uno porta nel lembo della sua veste della carne consacrata, e con quel suo lembo tocca del pane, o una vivanda cotta, o del vino, o dell’olio, o qualsivoglia altro cibo, quelle cose diventeranno esse consacrate? I sacerdoti riposero e dissero: No.

13 E Aggeo disse: Se uno, essendo impuro a motivo d’un morto, tocca qualcuna di quelle cose, diventerà essa impura? I sacerdoti risposero e dissero: Sì, diventerà impura.

14 Allora Aggeo replicò e disse: Così è questo popolo, così è questa nazione nel mio cospetto, dice l’Eterno; e così è tutta l’opera delle loro mani; e tutto quello che m’offrono là è impuro.

15 Ed ora, ponete ben mente a ciò ch’è avvenuto fino a questo giorno, prima che fosse messa pietra su pietra nel tempio dell’Eterno!

16 Durante tutto quel tempo, quand’uno veniva a un mucchio di venti misure, non ve n’eran che dieci; quand’uno veniva al tino per cavarne cinquanta misure, non ve n’eran che venti.