Malachi 3:6-7 KJV

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:6

I am the Lord, I change not - The new dispensation of grace and goodness, which is now about to be introduced, is not the effect of any change in my counsels; it is, on the contrary, the fulfillment of my everlasting purposes; as is also the throwing aside of the Mosaic ritual, which was only intended to introduce the great and glorious Gospel of my Son. And because of this ancient covenant, ye Jews are not totally consumed; but ye are now, and shall be still, preserved as a distinct... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:7

Gone away from mine ordinances - Never acting according to their spirit and design. Return unto me - There is still space to repent. Wherein shall we return? - Their consciences were seared, and they knew not that they were sinners. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:6

Verse 6 Here the Prophet more clearly reproves and checks the impious waywardness of the people; for God, after having said that he would come and send a Redeemer, though not such as would satisfy the Jews, now claims to himself what justly belongs to him, and says that he changes not, because he is God. Under the name Jehovah, God reasons from his own nature; for he sets himself, as we have observed in our last lecture, in opposition to mortals; nor is it a wonder that God here disclaims all... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:7

Verse 7 The Prophet expands more fully what he had referred to — that it was a wonder that the Jews had not perished, because they had never ceased to provoke God against themselves. He then sets this fact before them more clearly, From the days (252) of your fathers, he says, ye have turned aside from my statutes. He increases their condemnation by this circumstance — that they had not lately begun to depart from the right way, but had continued their contumacy for many ages, according to what... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5-6

The world of sinners. "And I will come near to you to judgment." From this passage we are reminded— I. THAT SINNERS EXIST IN THIS WORLD IN GREAT VARIETY . Here are "sorcerers," "adulterers," "false swearers," and heartless oppressors. The first were very general in Judaea. "There was," says Lightfoot, "hardly any people in the whole world that more used or were more fond of amulets, charms, mutterings, exorcisms, and all kinds of enchantments. The elder who was chosen... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:6

For I am the Lord, I change not; or, Jehovah, I change not . This is to show that God performs his promises, and effectually disposes of the allegation in Malachi 2:17 , that he put no difference between the evil and the good. The great principles of right and wrong never alter; they are as everlasting as he who gave them. God here speaks of himself by his covenant name, which expresses his eternal independent being, "the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of... read more

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:6

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