Matthew 11:10

Matthew 11:10. This is he, of whom it is written— See the note on Malachi 3:1. Dr. Hammond observes, that what is here before thy face, is in Malachi before my face, or before me. Hence it appears, that Christ, here referred to by the word thy, is there the same with God; or, yet farther, that the face of God, signifying often his coming or presence; and the sending before his face, the sending a harbinger or fore-runner in a journey (Luke 9:52.). This coming of Christ into the world, is the coming of God himself; this presence of his on the earth, the presence of God himself; and so the ιλαστηριον, or covering of the ark, noting the presence of God, appears to have been meant as a type of Christ, Romans 3:25.