Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsHaggai 2

Great shall be the glory.

^[1] When according to the Prophet's exhortation the temple was built again, Esdras ch. 3. v. 12. writeth, that such ancient men as had seen the former, lamented, because this new one was not so excellent as the former had been, which is also clear by other places of holy scripture. For amongst other differences, Salomon's temple had in height, and in breadth, an hundred and twenty cubits 2. Paral 3. v. 4. this new temple had but sixty cubits. 1. Esd. 6. v. 3. Likewise Salomon's temple was built of stones hewed and perfectly polished. 3. Reg. 6. v. 7. which were also covered on the inner side with ceiling work of cedar wood. v. 18. This new temple was built of rough and unpolished stones. 1. Esd. 5. v. 8. As for the same temple long after enlarged and adorned by Herod, it continued not long in that state, ^[2] and the chiefest glory thereof was by our Saviour's presence therein, when he was presented by his mother, and joyfully received into the arms of Simeon, and often preached there. And therefore S. Augustin proveth li. 18. c. 45. civit. that the Prophet here foresheweth the glory of Christ's mystical temple, faithful Christian souls of all nations, in whom God dwelleth by grace of the new Testament far more glorious in living stones, than that temple which King Salomon built, or that which was restored after the captivity.

• 1 The temple restored after the captivity was not so glorious as that which Salomon built.
• 2 But Christ's Church of the new Testament, in which he dwelleth spiritually, far excelleth the material temple.