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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Malachi 4 This chapter contains an account of the destruction of the wicked Jews, and the happiness of the righteous by the coming of the Messiah; an exhortation to regard the law of Moses; and a description of John the Baptist and his work. The day of Christ's coming, reaching to Jerusalem's destruction, is compared to a burning...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven,.... Not the day of judgment, as Kimchi and other interpreters, both Jewish and Christian, think; but the day of Christ's coming in his kingdom and power, to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which burned like an oven, both figuratively and literally; when the wrath of God, which is...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
We have here proper instructions given us (very proper to close the canon of the Old Testament with), I. Concerning the state of recompence and retribution that is before us, the misery of the wicked and the happiness of the righteous in that state, ver. 1-3. And this is represented to us under a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you — Here is the difference: “But unto you” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But unto you that fear my name,.... The few that were of this character among that wicked nation; [See comments on Malachi 3:16]: shall the Sun of righteousness arise; not the Holy Ghost, who enlightens sinners, convinces of righteousness, and gives joy, peace, and comfort to the saints, but Christ: and thus it is interpreted of him by the ancient...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise- Not like a scorching and burning oven as the sun of the heavens is in the East, but he shall arise — Mal_4:2. With healing in his wing; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. All is right with those who are right with God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And ye shall tread down the wicked,.... As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, Isaiah 63:2 and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all their enemies, spiritual and temporal: for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet; this refers to the burning of them, Malachi 4:1 and may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,.... Who was faithful as such in the house of God, in delivering the law to the children of Israel, which was given him; and who are called upon to remember it, its precepts and its penalties, which they were apt to forget: and particularly this exhortation is given now, because no other prophet after...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet,.... Not the Tishbite, as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet; not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab; but John the Baptist, who was to come in the power and spirit of Elijah, Lu 1:17 between whom there was a great likeness in their temper and disposition; in their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,.... Or "with" the children, as Kimchi; and Ben Melech observes, that על is put for עם, and so in the next clause: and the heart of the children to their fathers; or "with" their fathers; that is, both fathers and children: the meaning is, that John the Baptist should be an instrument of...