John Trapp on Haggai 2:15

Verſe 15. And now I pray you conſider] Heb. Lay it upon your heart, as chap. 1.5. See the Note there. The often repetition of this precept, ſets forth: 1. The neceſſity of the duty preſſed. 2. Their ſingular ſtupidity, that were no more affected with ſuch manifeſt marks of Gods wrath upon them: no, though hee had even ſnatched the meat out of their mouthes, and kept them hunger-ſtarved, which is the way of taming the moſt untameable creatures.

from this day and upward] To the end that when I ſhall have bleſſed you with greater plenty, as verf. 19, ye may recognize your ſinnes, the cauſe of your calamities, and remembring (as Jacob did his baculinam paupertatem, Gen. 32.10.) your former penury, you may thankfully cry out with that Noble Iphicrates; [non-Latin text not transcribed]. From how hungry to how plentifull an eſtate am I raiſed? Let a profane Demetrius attribute ſuch a change as this to blinde Fortune ſaying, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. But let all Saints ſing with holy Hannah; They that were full have hired themſelves out for bread: and they that were hungry ceaſed. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich; he bringeth low, and lifteth up, &c. 1 Sam. 2.5, 7.

from before a ſtone was laid upon a ſtone] i.e. before there was any hand ſet to the work of rebuilding the Temple, which was interrupted for many years, after the return from Babylon. See Ezr. 3.8. and 5.2.