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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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment - And what fearful cases does he get to judge! Sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, defrauders of the wages of the hireling, oppressors of widows and orphans, and perverters of the stranger and such as do not fear the Lord: a horrible crew; and the land at that time was full of them. Several were converted under the preaching of Christ and his apostles, and the rest the Romans destroyed or carried into captivity. 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:5

Verse 5 Here the Prophet retorts the complaints which the Jews had previously made. There is here then a counter-movement when he says, I will draw nigh to you; for they provoked God by this slander — that he hid himself from them and looked at a distance on what was taking place in the world, as though the people he had chosen were not the objects of his care. They expected God to be to them like a hired soldier, ready at hand to help them in any adversity, and to come armed at their nod or... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment. They had asked, "Where is the God of judgment?" ( Malachi 2:17 ). He tells them that his judgment shall extend beyond the Levites even unto all the people; they will then see whether, as they supposed, the evil went unpunished. The announcement applies especially to the circumstances of Malachi's time, though, of course, it has an extended reference. Swift witness. God's judgments fall swiftly and unexpectedly; and when they fall the sinner is at once... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5

Messiah's relation to society sins. It is important to see that God both considers and deals with society sins as well as individual sins. Not sufficiently is it pressed on attention, that he deals with the evils which are characteristic of aggregates of men—with sins of classes and of nations. It is in the necessary judgment of classes and nations as such that the innocent are wont to suffer with the guilty; and then the interest of the class must be seen to override the interests of the... 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

Malachi-3:5-6,-malachi-2:1-9-niv

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:5

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:5

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:5-6

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