Mal 3:15, 4:1 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 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 set up ] The humble and holy are depressed and miserable; the proud and wicked are in places of trust and profit . Too often it is so. They that tempt God are even delivered. ] Even those who despise God, and insult his justice and providence, are preserved in and from dangers; while the righteous fall by them.

‏ Malachi 3:15

Verse 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 set up] The humble and holy are depressed and miserable; the proud and wicked are in places of trust and profit. Too often it is so.

They that tempt God are even delivered.] Even those who despise God, and insult his justice and providence, are preserved in and from dangers; while the righteous fall by them.

‏ Malachi 4:1

CHAPTER IV

God's awful judgments on the wicked, 1.

Great blessedness of the righteous, 2, 3.

The prophet then, with a solemnity becoming the last of the prophets, closes the Sacred Canon with enjoining the strict observance of the law till the forerunner already promised should appear, in the spirit of Elijah, to introduce the Messiah, and begin a new and everlasting dispensation, 4-6.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV

Verse 1. Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven] The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

And all the proud] This is in reference to Mal 3:15 of the preceding chapter.

The day that cometh shall burn them up] Either by famine, by sword, or by captivity. All those rebels shall be destroyed.

It shall leave them neither root nor branch.] A proverbial expression for total destruction. Neither man nor child shall escape.