Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 2:3

3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now ? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it, as nothing ?

There are surely some that are of that Age as to have seen the Temple which our Fathers sins, Gods just displeasure, and the Chaldean malice burnt, who are they? and where may they be found? this question implieth there were such, and by Ezra 3.12, 13. appears there were many, for the cries and sobs of them equall'd the shouts of the younger, who reioiced to see the foundations of the second house laid.

Took notice of it then, and remember it now, that were of such age and knowledge as to remember what was standing in its glory (one hundred and fifty years ago if some conjecture aright, but what is nearer to truth) who remember some fourscore years past, who are about one hundred years of Age.

The house of God, the Temple built by Solomon.

In the stately structure of it, in the rich adornings of it, in the unparallel'd skill and curiosity of its Workmanship, when 'twas the Glory of the World.

Do you see the same Glorious Structure going forward? Have you expectation of one equal to the former Temple?

You cannot but recal the former to mind, and make your judgment of this by that.

Do you not judge this second nothing comparable with the first, you are ready to say (in proverbial speech) it is nothing to it.

Marginal references: Zech. 4.10.