So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
Ver. 13. And the work was perfected by them.] Heb., The healing went up upon the work. Metaphora tracta a corporibus quae medicina curantur: so the sun is said in spring to "heal" those deformities that winter had brought upon the earth. Mal 4:2