Verse 17
17. He John.
Go before him That is, before the Lord their God. This seems to be a clear ascription of the divine title to the Messiah, before whom John was to go.
In the spirit and power of Elias And hence he was predicted by Malachi under the name of Elijah. Malachi 4:5.
Turn the heart of the fathers to the children Not the heart of the children to the fathers, mark; but the heart of the fathers to the children. The fathers here are the holy ancestry of degenerate Israel, and they have, as it were, been offended with the apostacy of their descendants. But John shall so infuse a better spirit into this generation that a reconciliation shall take place between the holy olden time and the fallen
present. A people A clear allusion to the admission of the Gentiles into the Church of God.
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