Then answered Haggai, and said,
So is this people, and so is this nation before me,
says the LORD;
and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
All Commentaries on Haggai 2:14 Go To Haggai 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
By occasion of a soul. That is, by having touched the dead: in which case, according to the prescription of the law, (Numbers xix. 13, 22.) a person not only became unclean himself, but made everything that he touched unclean. The prophet applies all this to the people, whose souls remained unclean by neglecting the temple of God; and therefore were not sanctified by the flesh they offered in sacrifice, but rather defiled their sacrifices by approaching to them in the state of uncleanness. (Challoner)