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This word “yet once more” (τὸ δέ Ἔτι ἅπαξ)
Attention is called to this phrase as specially significant, because it indicates that the shaking prophesied by Haggai is to be final. It is to precede the new heaven and the new earth. Isa 65:17; Isa 66:22; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1.
Signifieth (δηλοῖ)
From δῆλος manifest, evident. To make manifest to the mind. Used of indications which lead the mind to conclusions about the origin or character of things. See Thucyd. i. 3; Aesch. Pers. 518. Comp. 1Co 3:13; Heb 9:8; 1Pe 1:11. Appropriate to prophetic revelations.
The removing (τὴν μετάθεσιν)
See on Heb 7:12. For the thought comp. 1Jo 2:17; 1Co 7:31.
As of things that are made (ὡς πεποιημένων)
Made indeed by God, who also makes the new heaven and the new earth (Isa 65:17; Isa 66:22), but made to pass away.
That the things which cannot be shaken may remain (ἵνα μείνῃ τὰ μὴ σαλευόμενα)
Whether we consider the things which are shaken, the old heavens and earth which pass away, or the new heaven and earth which cannot be shaken, both are πεποιημένα made by God. The writer perceives this, and therefore adds to as of things that are made a clause stating that they were made (by God himself) to pass away. Accordingly, ἵνα in order that is to be connected with πεποιημένων, after which the comma should be removed. Rend. “the removal of things made in order that they might await the things which are not shaken.” Μένειν is used in this sense, await, Act 20:5, Act 20:23, and often in Class.