Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Malachi 3:15
And now — You say, we see before our eyes, that the proud contemners of God and his law, are the flourishing ones. Delivered — Escape all punishment.
And now — You say, we see before our eyes, that the proud contemners of God and his law, are the flourishing ones. Delivered — Escape all punishment.
Verse Malachi 3:15. _AND NOW WE CALL THE PROUD HAPPY_] Proud and insolent men are the only happy people, for they domineer everywhere, and none dares to resist them. _THEY THAT WORK WICKEDNESS ARE S...
AND NOW WE CALL THE PROUD HAPPY (BLESSED) - This being so, they sum up the case against God. God had declared that all nations should “call them blessed” Malachi 3:12. if they would obey. They answer,...
REBUKE FOR DEFRAUDING THE LORD CHAPTER 3:7-15 Another rebuke is administered. They were alway a stiff-necked people, never obedient to His ordinances. His gracious call to return unto Him, and the pr...
MALACHI 3:13 TO MALACHI 4:3. THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The prophet here returns to the complaint of those who thought that religion did not pay (with Malachi 3:14; cf....
_we call the proud happy_ The word WE is emphatic, and suggests a reference on the part of the speakers to Malachi 3:12 above: "_Thou_sayest that all nations shall call them that obey Thee happy; _we_...
_THE SIN OF SPEAKING AGAINST GOD -- MALACHI 3:13-15:_ The Jews denied that they were doing anything wrong. This amounted to saying that God was making false charges against them. The attitude of these...
IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12 RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? He notices the complaint of the Jews, that it is of no profit to serve Yahweh, for that...
3 The Speedy Judgment 1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...
MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come to his...
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:18). (17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet now directs his reproofs against the people...
And now means _and so, consequently._ In this verse the prophet gives the words of the murmurers. (See Note on Malachi 3:13.) The statements of Malachi 3:13 show that they were of a very different cha...
וְ עַתָּ֕ה אֲנַ֖חְנוּ מְאַשְּׁרִ֣ים זֵדִ֑ים גַּם...
Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
WICKEDNESS AND PRIDE SHALL FIND JUDGMENT Malachi 3:13-18; Malachi 4:1-6 The day cometh! either in the fall of Jerusalem or in some terrible catastrophe yet future. Whenever it comes may we be reckone...
The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even (n) delivered. (n) They are not only preferred to honour, but also delivered from dange...
_Proud. Septuagint, "strange." (Haydock) --- Z has been take for u. --- Built up: have a numerous family, (Calmet) and abundance. --- Tempted. Septuagint, "resisted."_...
I include the whole of these verses under one reading, in order to observe in them what the last verse expresseth, the discerning between the righteous and the wicked. And what can more strikingly set...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...
This verse is connected with the last, for the force of these words, “We have walked sorrowfully before God and have carefully kept his precepts,” does not fully appear, except this clause be added —...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...
AND NOW WE CALL THE PROUD HAPPY,.... Or "therefore now" q; since this is the case, that the worshippers of God are not regarded, and there is nothing got by serving him; they that are proud and haught...
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered. Ver. 15. _And now we call the proud happy_] Such as, boiling and swelling wi...
_Your words_, &c. “From this verse to the end of Malachi 4:3, the prophet expostulates with the wicked for their hard speeches; and declares that God will make a fearful distinction between them and t...
THE WAYS OF GOD VINDICATED...
And now we call the proud happy, they had actually reached the stage when they praised the wicked, with their apparent happiness in matters of this world; YEA, THEY THAT WORK WICKEDNESS ARE SET UP, th...
Malachi 3:15; Malachi 3:15 are set up: _ Heb._ are built...
13-18 Among the Jews at this time, some plainly discovered themselves to be children of the wicked one. The yoke of Christ is easy. But those who work wickedness, tempt God by presumptuous sins. Judg...
AND NOW, or now therefore; on these false reasonings of these deceived ones, they proceed to further impiety and audacious blasphemy. WE CALL THE PROUD HAPPY; we (say they) see before our eyes, and mu...
Malachi 3:15 call H833 proud H2086 blessed H833 (H8764) do H6213 (H8802) wickedness H7564 up H1129 ...
Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:_ The name Malachi means «my messenger.» The reference here is, of course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepa...
CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist. CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...
Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this passage. Matthew 11:7. _The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...
CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 3:13.] Impatient murmuring is most unreasonable; the day is coming which will bring to light the distinction between the righteous and the wicked. MALACHI 3:13. STOUT] (bold)...
EXPOSITION MALACHI 3:1 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready to meet him and to bear his sentence?...
Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to Jesus Christ. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...
1 Corinthians 10:9; 1 Peter 5:5; Acts 12:21; Acts 5:9; Daniel 4:30;...
VITAL QUESTIONS Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...