Malachi 4:4-6

Malachi 4:4-6. Concluding Exhortation (Malachi 4:4) and Promise (Malachi 4:5)

Remember ye the law of Moses The revelation of God is always continuous. Each fresh step is evolved out of, and is in harmony with, those which went before. To "remember" the past is to prepare for the future. The exhortation here is a direction to the Church in prospect of the four centuries which would elapse, before any other prophet should arise and the promise (Malachi 4:5) be fulfilled.

To the more careful study of the law, in the wider sense of the O. T. Scriptures, to which this exhortation led, may be traced much of the advance in theological knowledge which we find among the Jews in the time of our Lord.

which I commanded unto him in Horeb A statement like this, put by an inspired prophet into the mouth of God Himself, has an important bearing on the historical character and date of composition of the Pentateuch.

with the statutes and judgments Rather (consisting in) statutes and judgments: "even statutes and judgments", R.V.: "(Nempe) statuta et judicia." Calv. The words are explanatory of the nature of the law. Comp. Deuteronomy 4:8; Leviticus 26:46.