The glory... — Better, The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former. The new sanctuary is regarded as identical with that reared by Solomon. It shall have a claim to celebrity unrivalled even in the palmiest days of olden time, when Jehovah shall turn the attention of all nations to His sacred place, as predicted in Haggai 2:6.

Between this third utterance and the fourth (Haggai 2:10) intervenes Zechariah’s exhortation to repentance (Zechariah 1:2) uttered in the eighth month.

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