Haggai

Minor prophet. Festive and joyful, he sowed in tears to reap in joy; builds the destroyed temple and introduces God speaking about the Desired of all nations.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — The Lord speaks through Haggai: "Ask the priests the law"

  "the Lord through Haggai, says: 'Ask the priests the law.'"

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Festive and joyful; sowed in tears to reap in joy; builds the destroyed temple; introduces God speaking about shaking heavens and earth and the Desired of all nations

  "Haggai, festive and joyful, who sowed in tears that he might reap in joy, builds the destroyed temple"