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Malachi 4:5

Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet,.... Not the Tishbite, as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet; not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab; but John the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Behold I will send (I send, as a future, proximate in the prophet’s mind) you Elijah the prophet - The Archangel Gabriel interprets this for us, to include the sending of John the Immerser. For he not…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Malachi 4:4-6

This is doubtless intended for a solemn conclusion, not only of this prophecy, but of the canon of the Old Testament, and is a plain information that they were not to expect any more sayings nor…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Elijah the prophet The reading of the LXX., "Elijah the Tishbite" (τὸν Θεσβίτην), has been thought to indicate their belief that the actual return of Elijah to earth is here foretold. Some have traced…