Before thy face] In the original of Malachi 3:1, from which these words are taken, Jehovah Himself speaks of His own coming, 'Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.' All the evangelists change this into an address of Jehovah to the Messiah, 'shall prepare thy way before thee' (Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; Luke 7:27), Which shows that they borrowed it not directly from Malachi, but from some common source in which the change or paraphrase had already been made.

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