CONTENTS The Prophet in closing up his predictions to the Church, delivers a solemn message to the ungodly, and a gracious promise to the righteous. He declares the coming of Elijah before the last day of the Lord's coming. Malachi 4:1 I cannot think with many, that this day spoken of, is the day... [ Continue Reading ]
What a blessed account is here given of the Lord Jesus! under the figurative language of the sun, and the sun of righteousness, as the sole fountain of light, and life, and heat, and vivifying influence; Christ is described. And in how many ways, and by what a vast variety of means, the Lord Jesus b... [ Continue Reading ]
I humbly conceive, that this verse of reminding the people of the law of Moses, was to bring them under the condemning sentence of Moses' law. As the law was the ministration of death, for so the Apostle, commissioned by the Holy Ghost, was directed to call it, 2 Corinthians 3:7. this remembrance of... [ Continue Reading ]
I cannot but suppose that Elijah, and not John the Baptist, is intended here. I do not presume to say so much, but I venture to think it. Malachi had already declared the coming of John the Baptist, as the Lord's forerunner, in the days of his flesh; and therefore there needed no note of admiration,... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Reader! pause over the solemn, the very solemn and awful account here given of the great and dreadful day of God, so often spoken of in scripture, and so certain and sure. Think how tremendous the judgments which will then overtake the ungodly. For if the righteous scarcely be saved, wh... [ Continue Reading ]