ell. ii. 3. — sri aval* eyh asiffu ov f^ovov T^V yrp, a\\a %ai rov ovpavov, yet once more I will shake not only the earthy but also heaven) "y\ E^jnn ^KI son DVD nnx my, LXX, 'in dva%, K.T.X., and ver. 21, lyw tfs/«, K.T.X., yet once I will shake the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land, etc. ; and ver. 21, Is/take the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land. The apostle brings the two verses into one, by which he shows that it was one and the same shaking, of which the one verse of Haggai denotes the be ginning, the other the end. For that shaking began at the first coming of the Messiah ; it will be finished at the second : concern ing the former, comp. Matt. iii. 17, xxvii. 51, xxviii. 2 ; Acts ii. 2, iv. 31 : concerning the latter, Matt. xxiv. 7 ; Rev. xvi. 20, xx. 11. There is an illustrious testimony given by Sir Isaac New ton on Daniel, p. 94 : " And there is scarcely any prophecy con cerning Christ in the whole of the Old Testament, which does not, to some extent at least, refer to His second coming." — aeiffu, I will shake) Others read <?£/«. The LXX. have both, as we have now seen ; but tf£/<rw, Iivill shake, expresses the promise.1
27. Tuv ffaXsvopsvuv, of those things tJiat are shaken) the heaven and the earth. — rrtv ft&rdQsffiv, the removing) The same word occurs at vii. 12. The antithesis is pefafo should remain. It will be said : When the earth was formerly shaken, no removal took place ; how then is a removal now connected with the shaking of the heaven and the earth I Ans. This shaking is total ; is final; is promised, and there is therefore an intimation, that better things will succeed, — that is, those things which are not removed, but are immoveable, will succeed those things which are removed. The first was the prelude of the second. — ug KSKoiq/j.wuv, as of those things that are made) The reason why those things, which are said to be shaken, fall under removal, for they are things made formerly by creation, and so made, that they would not remain of themselves, but would be removed ; and that subsequently those should only remain which are not removed. So Paul speaks, 2 Cor. v. 1. — Jva ps/vy) tliat they should
1 And that reading in the larger Ed. is not reckoned among those to be approved ; on the marg. of the 2d Ed. it is equal to the reading atia, and is decidedly preferred in the Germ. Vers. — E. B.
AC Vulg. Memph. and Theb. read au'cu. But D/ and Rec. Text «/«, with less authority. — ED.