Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 2:6

6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once , it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens , and the earth , and the sea , and the dry land .

After many repetitions and confirmations of the New Covenant one more repetition, and but one more rests to be made.

Comparatively 'twas little, though 517 years from the second of Darius Hys[illegible: 1 letter]aspis to the incarnation of Christ, a long time to us who are short lived, and short sighted, but a little time compared with that between first promise to Adam, and Christ's coming; or take any other shorter period, as between Abraham or David, and Christ; this last period is short, a little while.

Whether it be metaphorical or literal, it was verified at the time of Christ's coming into the World. After the return of the Captivity, what with the commotions among the Graecians, Persians, and Romans, which began soon after this time; the Prophet points at this, was metaphorically fulfilled, all States were shaken either with Invasions from abroad, or Intestine Dissensions among themselves: Literally it was fulfilled by Prodigies, and Earthquakes, &c. as some have observed and recounted at the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Christ.

Either States and Governments of the World, or Church Affairs, which in Scripture are called the Heavens, or the Material Heavens, and the Firmament,

which either figuratively, or literally taken, will agree well with the Text, and the H[illegible: 1 letter]story of times.

Sea, one part of, that is called Earth, this lower Globe

the other part of this inferiour World, and both may as former Words be literally or figuratively taken, and which better, I do not undertake to determine.

Marginal references: ver. 21. Heb. 12.26.