Haggai 2:12

If one bear Lit. Lo! one bears. "See, there is a man bearing what will happen?" An emphatic Oriental way of saying, "suppose, put the case, that one bears." So in Jeremiah 3:1 we have, "Lo! a man puts away his wife." And in 2 Chronicles 7:13, where "if" occurs three times in A. V. the Hebrew has "lo" the first and second time, and "if" the third time.

holy flesh i.e. flesh which has been offered in sacrifice to God. Comp. Jeremiah 11:15.

the skirt Lit. the wing. So πτέρυξ, πτερύγιον are used for the skirts or flaps of a cloak or dress.

meat i.e. food, or eatables. LXX. βρῶμα.

the priests answered and said, No In Leviticus 6:27 we read of the sin-offering, "Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy." The garment therefore in which the flesh was carried would be holy, but the holiness would not extend, so the priests ruled it, to anything which the garment touched.