From this day and upward] better, 'and onward.' He then bids them think of their past sufferings and resumes the thought here begun in Haggai 2:18. There should be a full stop after upward. From before, etc.] A better translation is that of Nowack, 'Before a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the Lord, how did ye fare? When one came to a heap of twenty,' etc.

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