malachi-4:5-6,-luke-1:13-14

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 4:5

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible days of Jehovah come.""Elijah ..." Did this mean that Elijah who was "caught up" to the Lord, and who therefore, apparently did not die, -that he would return to prepare the way before the Lord? (2 Kings 2:1-12). Of course, the Jews generally understood this to mean that the same Elijah the Tishbite would be the one who returned. There was a strong tradition among the Jews that continues to the present day, to the effect... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 4:6

"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."All except the last clause of this verse was discussed in the notes on the preceding Malachi 4:5."Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse ..." This verse could not have been written by any Jew who ever lived, except by the true prophet of God, Malachi. That no pious scribe, editor, or interpolator wrote it is inherent in the fact that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Malachi 4:5-6

Malachi 4:5-6. Behold, I will send you Elijah, &c.— This prophesy, says Bishop Chandler, is a repetition of that in chap. Mal 3:1 only the name of the messenger is added to it, with the manner of his preparing the way, which is declared to be spiritual: he shall turn the hearts of the fathers with the children; and of the children with the fathers (as Kimchi properly renders the particle על al); that is to say, he shall do his part to cause a national reformation to convert fathers and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:5

5. I send you Elijah—as a means towards your "remembering the law" ( :-). the prophet—emphatical; not "the Tishbite"; for it is in his official, not his personal capacity, that his coming is here predicted. In this sense, John the Baptist was an Elijah in spirit (Luke 1:16; Luke 1:17), but not the literal Elijah; whence when asked, "Art thou Elias?" (Luke 1:17- :), He answered, "I am not." "Art thou that prophet?" "No." This implies that John, though knowing from the angel's announcement to his... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:6

6. turn . . . heart of . . . fathers to . . . children, c.—Explained by some, that John's preaching should restore harmony in families. But Luke 1:16 Luke 1:17 substitutes for "the heart of the children to the fathers," "the disobedient to the wisdom of the just," implying that the reconciliation to be effected was that between the unbelieving disobedient children and the believing ancestors, Jacob, Levi, "Moses," and "Elijah" (just mentioned) (compare Malachi 1:2; Malachi 2:4; Malachi 2:6;... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:4-6

E. Second motivation: remember the Law 4:4-6"Malachi began with an illustration from Genesis (Jacob and Esau) and spent most of the first half of the book reminding priests and people of the need to keep the Mosaic Law. Now, close to the end of his book, he gives another terse reminder of their continuing obligation to those laws." [Note: Alden, p. 724.] "As the motivation provided in Malachi 1:2-5 extends beyond the first address to the whole book . . ., this concluding section provides the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:5

The Lord promised to send His people Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrived. An angel later told John the Baptist’s parents that their son would minister in the spirit and power of Elijah (Luke 1:17). Yet John denied that he was Elijah (John 1:21-23). Jesus said that John would have been the Elijah who was to come if the people of his day had accepted Jesus as their Messiah (Matthew 11:14). Since they did not, John did not fulfill this prophecy about Elijah... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:6

Malachi revealed only one future forerunner of Messiah before the day of the Lord in view, perhaps the more prominent of the two. Elijah was a very significant person in Israel’s history because he turned the Israelites back to God at the time of their worst apostasy, when Ahab and Jezebel had made Baal worship the official religion of Israel. Moses established the theocracy on earth, but Elijah restored it when it almost passed out of existence. Similarly the eschatological Elijah will unite... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:1-6

4The New Elijah1. The comparison is to an oven heated by a fire lighted within it: cp. Matthew 6:30. This passage is closely connected with the preceding. Stubble] rather, ’straw.’2. ’The day of the Lord is darkness and not light’ (Amos 5:20), but when the night of judgment is over, day dawns for the righteous.The Sun of righteousness] ’Righteousness’ is here almost equivalent to ’blessing,’ as in Psalms 24:5.With healing in his wings] Since the dawn spreads with rapidity from the E. over the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 4:4-6

CONCLUDING ADMONITION.(4-6) As the prophetical books began (Joshua 1:2; Joshua 1:8) with “Moses my servant is dead . . . this book of the Law shall not be removed from thy mouth, &c.,” so they close with the admonition, “Remember ye the Law of Moses my servant.” (Comp. Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 8:14.) The path of duty is the path of safety and of light. (Comp. John 7:17.) “Mysteries belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed are for us and for our children for ever,... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 4:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 4:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Malachi 4:5-6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 4:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:4-6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:5

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 4:6

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 4:1-6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 4:4-6

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