John Trapp on Haggai 2:16

Verſ. 16. Since thoſe dayes were] Or, as ſome read it, Antequam eſſent in to opere. Before they were about that work, minding Gods houſe more then their own.

When one came to an heap of twenty meaſures] that is, where you expected twenty meaſures (and experienced good-husbands can partly gueſſe at harveſt, how their corn will yeeld, when threſhed out) there were but ten. Gods hand was upon your increaſe, not in the field onely, but alſo in the floor; ſo that you were defeated, and your hopes fruſtrated: and not in the barn onely, but at the winepreſſe too, God hath cut you ſhort. This was that which was long before threatned, but little regarded, Deut. 28.20. Carnall men read the threats of Gods Law, as they do the old ſtories of forraigne warres, or as they behold the wounds and blood in a picture, or piece of Arras, which never makes them ſmart or fear. This haſteneth their judgement, and ſhews them ripe for wrath, even then when they think themſelves farre enough out of the reach of Gods rod.