マラキ書 3:4-24 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:1-6

The first words of this chapter seem a direct answer to the profane atheistical demand of the scoffers of those days which closed the foregoing chapter: Where is the God of judgment? To which it is readily answered, ?Here he is; he is just at the door; the long-expected Messiah is ready to appear; and he says, For judgment have I come into this world, for that judgment which you have so impudently bid defiance to.? One of the rabbin says that the meaning of this is, That God will raise up a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:7-12

We have here God's controversy with the men of that generation, for deserting his service and robbing him?wicked servants indeed, that not only run away from their Master, but run away with their Master's goods. I. They had run away from their Master, and quitted the work he gave them to do (Mal. 3:7): You have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. The ordinances of God's worship were the business which as servants they must mind, the talents which they must trade with, and the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:13-18

Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah's figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of God and others that as plainly discovered themselves to be the children of the wicked one. There are tares and wheat in the same field, chaff and corn in the same floor; and here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:4

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord ,.... Or "sweet" F2 ערבה "dulcescet", Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "dulce", Piscator. ; grateful and well pleasing to him, as all spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God through Christ, being offered up in the faith of his atoning sacrifice and righteousness, without which it is impossible to please God: as in the days of old, and as in former years : under the first temple, and when the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment ,.... And so will manifestly appear to be the God of judgment they asked after, Malachi 2:17 this is not to be understood of Christ's coming to judgment at the last day, but of his coming to judge and punish the wicked Jews at the time of Jerusalem's destruction; for the same is here meant, who is spoken of in the third person before, and who will not be afar off; there will be no need to inquire after him, when he will come he will be near enough,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:6

For I am the Lord ,.... Or Jehovah; a name peculiar to the most High, and so a proof of the deity of Christ, who here speaks; and is expressive of his being; of his self-existence; of his purity and simplicity; of his immensity and infinity; and of his eternity and sovereignty: I change not ; being the same today, yesterday, and forever; he changed not in his divine nature and personality by becoming man; he took that into union with him he had not before, but remained the same he ever... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:7

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances ,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of the fathers; and therefore this word is used as referring to this evil, as well as to express their early, long, and continued departure from the ways of God; which as it was an aggravation of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:8

Will a man rob God ?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" F3 אלהים "deos, vel judices", Calvin, Drusius, Grotius. , as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see Malachi 1:8 . Yet ye have robbed me ; keeping back from the priests and Levites, his ministers, what was due to them; and which, being no... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:9

Ye are cursed with a curse ,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld from them for their sins, and the earth did not bring forth its usual increase; wherefore there was want of food in all their land; their blessings were cursed, as in Malachi 2:2 for the following reason, for ye have robbed me ; because of this their iniquity, in not bringing their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:10

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse ,.... Or "treasury" F5 אל בית האוצר "thesaurum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; " vel in domum thesauri", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Burkius. ; for there were places in the temple where the tithe was put, and from thence distributed to the priests and Levites, for the support of their families, as they wanted. There were the tithe or tenth part of all eatable things paid to the Levites, and out of this another tithe was paid by... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:7-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 3:13-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 3:10

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