マラキ書 4:1-6 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1

Burn as an oven ( a furnace ) . Fire is often spoken of in connection with the day of judgment and the advent of the Judge. It is a symbol of the holiness of God, which consumes all impurity, and also represents the punishment inflicted on the ungodly ( Psalms 1:1-6 :8; Isaiah 10:17 ; Isaiah 66:15 , Isaiah 66:16 ; Daniel 7:9 , Daniel 7:10 ; Joel 2:30 ; 1 Corinthians 3:13 ; 2 Peter 3:7 , etc.). The LXX . adds, "and it shall burn them." Stubble (see note on Obadiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1

The Divine fire. "The day cometh that shall bum as an oven." Fire is one of the most familiar figures of the Divine working. It is one of the forces which man most dreads when it gets beyond control. And it is the force on which man most relies for the purifying of the good and the destruction of the evil. The fire of the oven is fire at its intensest. A hole is dug in the ground, a fire of stubble is kindled in it; by this time a large stone is heated, and on the stone the bread can be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

4. The final separation of the evil and the good at the day of judgment. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The day of the world's retribution. "For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven," etc. A graphic representation of these verses is given by Stanley: "The day spoken of was to be like the glorious but terrible uprising of the Eastern sun, which should wither to the roots the insolence and the injustice of mankind; but as its rays extended, like the wings of the Egyptian sun, God should, by its healing and invigorating influences, call forth the good from their obscurity,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The Sun of Righteousness. The sun which is righteousness, in whose wings, that is, rays, are healing and salvation. This Divine righteousness shall beam upon them that fear the Name of God, flooding them with joy and light, healing all wounds, tee moving all miseries, making them incalculably blessed. The Fathers generally apply the title of "Sun of Righteousness" to Christ, who is the Source of all justification and enlightenment and happiness, and who is called ( Jeremiah 23:6 ), "The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The Sun of Righteousness. In Malachi 4:1 and Malachi 4:2 we are once more presented with the twofold aspect of a Divine fact. (See homilies on Malachi 3:2 and Malachi 3:6 .) "Dies irae, dies ilia. " But "that day" need not be a "day of wrath." It may be memorable, admirable, as the day of full salvation. As the first coming of Christ was for the "rising again" of some, "that they which see not might see" ( John 9:39 ), so at his second coming, though "revealed from heaven in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The healing sunrise. "The Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings." "As the rising sun diffuses light and heat, so that all that is healthy in nature revives and lifts up its head, while plants that have no depth of root are scorched up and wither away, so the advent of the reign of righteousness, which will reward the good and the wicked, each according to his deserts, will dissipate all darkness of doubt, and heal all the wounds which the apparent injustice of the conduct of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

Ye shall tread down the wicked (comp. Micah 4:13 ). They who were once oppressed and overborne by the powers of wickedness shall now rise superior to all hindrances, and themselves tread down the wicked as the ashes under their feet, to which the fire of judgment shall reduce them. In the day that I shall do this; rather, as in Malachi 3:17 , in the day which I am preparing . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

The secret of triumph over wickedness. The figure of "treading ashes" is suggested by the previous figure of "burning." When the wicked are burned up in the fire of God, all their power to injure the good will be gone. They will but be as ashes of the oven, ashes spread abroad, ashes made a path to walk over. The tone of the prophet is not one of glorying over the fate of the wicked, but of rejoicing in the removal of the hindrance which the wicked ever put in the way of God's faithful... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:4

If the people would meet the judgment with confidence and secure for themselves the promised blessings, they must remember and obey the Law of Moses. Thus the last of the prophets set his seal to the Pentateuch, on obedience to which depended, as of old (see Leviticus 26:1-46 .; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 .), so now, the most abundant blessings. My servant. Moses was only the agent and interpreter of God. The origin and authority of the Law were Divine. Horeb . The mention of the mountain... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:4

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