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Early Church 1
Messianic Passages 1
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The Best Commentary on Haggai
Moore, T.V. – The Prophets of the Restoration, or Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, a New Translation with Notes 1856
Moore was an Old Princeton graduate and southern Presbyterian. This work was republished by the Banner of Truth.
*** – “A capital book. most useful to ministers.” – Spurgeon
‘Studies which are loyal to the text, endear themselves to the reader, and edify and enrich the soul. Refomed.’ – Cyril J. Barber
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More Commentaries on Haggai
1500’s
Grynaeus, John – Haggeus the Prophet, whereunto is added a most plentiful commentary gathered out of the public lectures of Dr. John James Gryneus 1586
Grynaeus (1540–1617) was a reformed professor at Basel, Switzerland and Heidelberg, Germany.
* – “Grynaeus was a voluminous author, and commented on most of the books of Scripture, but only this work has been turned into English, and it is now seldom met with.” – Spurgeon
[Note that Spurgeon’s rating system is based on books he recommends to purchase; hence he often gave hard to find books a low rating, though he may not have been familiar with it.]
Pilkington, James – Commentary on Haggai 1562
Pilkington was one of the English reformers.
** – “Full of the minor as well as the major controversies of the Reformation period, and therefore the less interesting to us. In its own day it was *the* master-work on the two prophets, Haggai and Obadiah.” – Spurgeon
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1600’s
Rainolds, Edward – An Exposition upon Haggai d. 1607
Rainolds was a puritan, to be distinguished from Edward Reynolds (†1676).
** – “Rainolds was the tutor of Hooker, and had a main hand in our authorized version of the Bible. Bishop Hall says, ‘the memory, the reading of that man were near a miracle.’ We ought to be enraptured with a commentary from such a divine, but we confess that we are not.” – Spurgeon
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1900’s, Brief
Bromiley, Geoffrey – ‘Haggai’ in The Biblical Expositor: The Living Theme of the Great Book with General and Introductory Essays and Exposition, vol. 2 Buy ed. Carl Henry 1960
This little known commentary set by leading evangelicals (many of which were reformed) is brief (think airplane view) but helpful.
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The Early Church on Haggai
Ferreiro, Alberto – Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: The Twelve Prophets Buy
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The Messianic Passages of Haggai
Hengstenberg, E.W. – ‘Messianic Prediction in Haggai’ 1868 30 pp. in The Christology of the Old Testament, vol. 3, pp. 265-295 Hengstenberg comments on 2:6-9
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