Haggai 2:19 - Exposition

Is the seed yet in the barn? Is there any of your poor crop still left in your granaries? Is it not already expended? "The seed" is here the produce of the seed, the grain ( 1 Samuel 8:15 ; Job 39:12 ). The corn crop is mentioned first, then the fruit harvest. The Vulgate has, Numquid jam semen in germine est? Has the seed begun to grow? Is there any sign of abundance? Yet the harvest shall be prolific. But there is no doubt that megurah means "barn," not "sprout." LXX ; εἰ ἐπιγνωσθήσεται ἐπὶ τῆς ἅλω , "If it shall be known upon the threshing floor." Jerome must have read γῆς for τῆς , as he renders, "Si ultra cognoscetur super terram area." He expounds it thus: So abundant shall be the produce that the threshing floor shall not recognize its own corn. or that the threshers shall be forced to join floor to floor to make room for all the grain, " et arearnm separatio nesciatur in terra " Yea, as yet; καὶ εἰ ἔτι ; et adhuc (Vulgate); as 3:26 ; Job 1:18 . Others translate, "as regards.'' Though there was no sign of leaf or fruit on the trees, nothing by which one could judge of the future produce, yet the prophet predicts an abundant crop, dating from the people's obedience (Le Job 26:3 , etc.; Deuteronomy 28:2 , etc.). From this day will I bless you. "This day" is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month ( Job 1:10 ). From now the improvement in the season should begin and make itself evident. "Bless" is a term often used for sending fruitful seasons ( Deuteronomy 28:8 ; Malachi 3:10 ).