Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will send my messenger,.... These are the words of Christ, in answer to the question put in the last verse of the preceding chapter Mal 2:17, "Where is the God of judgment?" intimating that…
Barnes' Notes
God answers their complaints of the absence of His judgments, that they would come, but would include those also who clamored for them. For no one who knew his own sinfulness would call for the…
The first words of this chapter seem a direct answer to the profane atheistical demand of the scoffers of those days which closed the foregoing chapter: Where is the God of judgment? To which it is…
Cambridge Bible
Mal 3:1. God Himself takes up (Mal 3:1-6) the challenge, "Where is the God?" &c.
my messenger They had been provided, in the priests, with a standing order of "messengers" of Jehovah (Mal 2:7). From…
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