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Commentaries on Malachi 3:18

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Malachi 3 This chapter begins with a prophecy of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; and of the coming of Christ, and the effects and consequences of it, with respect both to the righteous and the wicked; and it contains accusations and charges of sin against the Jews, intermixed with exhortations to repentance. John the Baptist is promised to be sent, and is described by...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Then shall ye return,.... Either the wicked, who will be "converted" (z), as some render the word, and will have a different view of things, and change their minds and language; or they that feared the Lord, who at the time before spoken of will have a new turn of thought, and another and clear discerning of persons and things, and better judge of the dispensations of Providence: some that refer...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly described, both the comfort which his coming brings to his church and people and the terror which it will bring to the wicked, ver. 1-6. II. A reproof of the Jews for their corrupting God's ordinances and sacrilegiously robbing him of his dues, with a charge...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, Not now, but then; by-and-by, there shall be a distinguishing mark set upon all mankind: “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,” — Mal_3:18. Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. This exposition consisted of readings from Mal_3:4.