John Trapp on Haggai 2:18

Verſe 18. Conſider now from this day and upward] And ſee how punctually the time of benediction anſwereth to the time of your converſion: ſo that you no ſooner begin to build, but I begin to bleſſe. It is ſaid of the men of Iſſachar, that they were in great account with David, becauſe they had underſtanding of the times, 1 Chron. 12.32. It is certainly a point of ſpirituall prudence to conſider the times, and to compare things paſt with preſent and future. Time is the wiſeſt of all things,Laert. lib. 1 ſaid Thales; the beſt counſellour ſaid Plutarch. Truth is the daughter of Time, In Pericles: ſaith Another Philoſopher. See the Note on verſe 15.