Malachi 4:3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The great and terrible day of the Lord is here prophesied of. This, like the pillar of cloud and fire, shall have a dark side turned towards the Egyptians that fight against God, and a bright side towards the faithful Israelites that follow him: The day cometh, that is, the Lord cometh, the day of the Lord; and it has reference both to the first and to the second coming of Jesus Christ; the day of both was fixed, and should answer the character here given of it. I. In both Christ is a... read more

John Gill

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

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 literally understood of their being burnt with the city and temple; when afterwards, as Grotius observes, the city of Jerusalem being in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:3

Ye shall tread down - This may be the commission given to the Romans: Tread down the wicked people, tread down the wicked place; set it on fire, and let the ashes be trodden down under your feet. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:3

Verse 3 When God promises redemption to his Church, he usually mentions what is of an opposite character, even the destruction and ruin of his enemies, and he does this on purpose lest envy should annoy or harass the faithful, while seeing the ungodly prosperous and happy. So also in this place Malachi says, that the ungodly would be trodden under foot by the faithful like the dust; and he says this lest the elect, while lying prostrate under the feet of their enemies and proudly trampled upon... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:3

And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. It shall be a great reversal. He that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he, that humbleth himself shall be exalted - Here the wicked often have the pre-eminence. This was the complaint of the murmurers among the Jews; in the morning of the Resurrection Psalms 49:14, “the upright shall have dominion over them.” The wicked, he had said, shall be as stubble, and that day Psalms 4:1, “shall burn them up;”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 4:3

Malachi 4:3. And ye shall tread down the wicked “Ye shall know that they are wholly subdued.” Newcome. Houbigant thinks this “refers to the miracles of the rising church, by which the wicked were compelled to yield, and submit themselves; for there is no other dominion under which they could be held by Christians.” There was a time when the wicked trode them down, and said to their souls, Bow down that we may go over; but the day will come that will make them victorious over all their... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 4:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 4:3

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