マラキ書 3:13-4:3 JCB

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Malachi 3:13-18

Malachi 4:1-61For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all [ plural in LXX., Targum, and eighty MSS.] 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. 2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun [ fem. as in Genesis 15:17; Jeremiah 15:9; Nahum 3:17] of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up1 [leap for... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Malachi 3:13-18

Malachi ‘STOUT WORDS,’ AND THEIR CONFUTATION Mal_3:13 - Mal_3:18 ; Mal_4:1 - Mal_4:6 . This passage falls into three parts,-the ‘stout words’ against God which the Prophet sets himself to confute Mal_3:13 - Mal_3:15; the prophecy of the day which will show their falsehood Mal_3:16 - Mal_4:3; and the closing exhortation and prediction Mal_4:4 - Mal_4:6. I. The returning exiles had not had the prosperity which they had hoped. So many of them, even of those who had served God, began to let... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Malachi 3:13-18

Wickedness and Pride Shall Find Judgment Malachi 3:13-18 ; Malachi 4:1-6 The day cometh! either in the fall of Jerusalem or in some terrible catastrophe yet future. Whenever it comes may we be reckoned as God’s peculiar treasure, preserved as a woman preserves her jewels in the day of calamity, Malachi 3:17 . Sorrow and disaster are perpetually befalling the proud, or those that do wickedly; while on those who fear God’s name the dawn of the sun of righteousness is forever breaking and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:1-18

The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one uttering the closing words. The prophet announced the advent of Jehovah's Messenger, describing His Person and the process of His administration, and finally declaring the principle of the unchangeableness of Jehovah. He next appealed to the nation generally, calling the people, to return, and then... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Malachi 3:1-18

Vital Questions Malachi 1:1-14 ; Malachi 2:1-17 ; Malachi 3:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask God questions in return. As these pairs of questionings have to do with the theme in hand, we have decided to give a brief description of the varied questions that are in the Book as a whole. 1. The first pair of questions. God says, "A son honoureth his father, and a servant his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:13-18

YHWH’s Final Charge Against His People, That They Have Spoken Against Him (Malachi 3:13 to Malachi 4:3 ). In this section YHWH finalises His list of complaints by distinguishing between the majority who have spoken against Him, and the minority Who have constantly spoken lovingly of Him, whose names are written in His Book of Remembrance, and He contrasts what the end will be of both groups. Malachi 3:13-14 ‘Your words have been stout against me, Says YHWH, Yet you say, What have we said to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:13-18

Malachi 3:13 to Malachi 4:3 . The Final Triumph of Righteousness.— The prophet here returns to the complaint of those who thought that religion did not pay (with Malachi 3:14; cf. Malachi 2:17). They had “ kept God’ s charge,” faithfully observing their religious duties, and even wearing the sackcloth and ashes which marked humiliation and penance. Yet it is the arrogant and lax members of the community ( cf. Psalms 119:21; Psalms 119:51, etc.) that do well; they challenge God’ s judgment... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Malachi 3:13

Your words; your discourses concerning my providences over you and others, your reasonings, censures, and verdicts passed on your own ways, and on the ways of your God. Have been stout; proudly justifying yourselves as deserving better usage from God, or insolently arraigning God for his kindness to others, who in your judgment are worse than yourselves, by such words as those Malachi 2:17. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? you think you have spoken nothing so proudly and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Malachi 3:13-18

CRITICAL NOTES.Malachi 3:13-18.] Impatient murmuring is most unreasonable; the day is coming which will bring to light the distinction between the righteous and the wicked. Malachi 3:13. Stout] (bold) sig. to bind fast, make firm, and in a bad sense to be hard or obstinate, such as that in Jude 1:15. [Henderson]. Keil gives, to do violence to one, to overpower him (cf. Exodus 12:33; 2 Samuel 24:4). Specimen words are given. Malachi 3:14.] God has no regard to well doing, therefore there is no... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:1-18

Chapter 3Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to Jesus Christ.Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like the fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a... read more