Cometh — Tho' it be at a distance from you, yet it is coming and will overtake you and overwhelm you too. As an oven — The refiner's fire, Malachi 3:2, is now represented as a fire, burning more dreadfully, as it did indeed when Jerusalem and the temple were on fire, when the fire raged every where,... [ Continue Reading ]
The sun of righteousness — Christ, who is fitly compared to the sun, being the fountain of light, and vital heat to his church. And of mercy and benignity; for the Hebrew word imports both. With healing — His beams shall bring health and strength, with delight and joy, safety and security. Go forth... [ Continue Reading ]
Tread down the wicked — When believers by faith overcome the world, when they suppress their corrupt appetites and passions, and when the God of peace bruises Satan under their feet, then they indeed tread down the wicked.... [ Continue Reading ]
Remember — Now take leave of prophecy, for you shall have no more 'till the great prophet, 'till Shiloh come, but attend ye diligently to the law of Moses. For all Israel — So long as they should be a people and church. Statutes and judgments — Be not partial; statutes and judgments, that is, the wh... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold I will send — Though the spirit of prophecy cease for four hundred years, yet at the expiring of those years, you shall have one sent, as great as Elijah. Elijah — Namely John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah, Luke 1:17, and therefore bears his name. Before — That is, i... [ Continue Reading ]
And he — John the Baptist. Shall turn the heart — There were at this time many great and unnatural divisions among the Jews, in which fathers studied mischief to their own children. Of the children — Undutiful children estranged from their fathers. With a curse — Which ends in utter destruction; lea... [ Continue Reading ]