Malachia 3:3

La Riveduta Bibbia

Egli si sederà, affinando e purificando l’argento; e purificherà i figliuoli di Levi, e li depurerà come si fa dell’oro e dell’argento, ed essi offriranno all’Eterno offerte con giustizia.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Egli sieder come chi affina e purifica largento; purificher i figli di Levi e li affiner come oro e argento, perch possano offrire allEterno unoblazione con giustizia.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed egli sederà, struggendo, e purgando l’argento; e netterà i figliuoli di Levi, e li affinerà a guisa dell’oro, e dell’argento; ed essi offeriranno al Signore offerte in giustizia.

Bible Verse Review
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sit: Psalms 66:10, Proverbs 17:3, Proverbs 25:4, Isaiah 1:25, Isaiah 48:10, Jeremiah 6:28-30, Ezekiel 22:18-22, Daniel 12:10, Zechariah 13:9, Luke 3:16, Ephesians 5:26, Ephesians 5:27, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 12:10, 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:13, Revelation 3:18

the sons: Malachi 1:6-10, Malachi 2:1-8, Isaiah 61:6, Isaiah 66:19-21, Jeremiah 33:18-22, Ezekiel 44:15, Ezekiel 44:16, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10

an: Malachi 1:11, Psalms 4:5, Psalms 50:14, Psalms 50:23, Psalms 69:30, Psalms 69:31, Psalms 107:21, Psalms 107:22, Psalms 116:17, Psalms 141:1, Psalms 141:2, Hosea 14:2, John 4:23, John 4:24, Romans 12:1, Romans 15:16, Philippians 2:17, Philippians 4:18, 2 Timothy 4:6, Hebrews 13:15, Hebrews 13:16, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:2 - prove thee Judges 2:22 - prove Judges 7:4 - I will 2 Chronicles 32:31 - to try him Job 23:10 - he hath Job 28:1 - where they fine it Psalms 11:5 - trieth Psalms 50:3 - a fire Psalms 51:19 - sacrifices Psalms 119:119 - puttest away Psalms 139:23 - know Proverbs 27:21 - the fining Isaiah 4:4 - washed away Isaiah 9:5 - burning Isaiah 27:9 - this therefore Isaiah 43:2 - when thou walkest Jeremiah 6:29 - the founder Jeremiah 9:7 - I will Ezekiel 20:38 - I will purge Ezekiel 22:15 - consume Matthew 3:12 - he will thoroughly Matthew 7:25 - the rain Mark 9:3 - no Luke 12:49 - come John 15:2 - and Acts 2:3 - like Acts 3:21 - the times 2 Timothy 2:21 - purge Hebrews 11:17 - when James 1:12 - when James 3:17 - first

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall sit [as] a refiner, and purifier of silver,.... Kimchi interprets this, as he does the latter part of the preceding verse Malachi 3:2, of the day, and not of the Lord, which he compares to a judge that sits and separates the guilty from the innocent; see 1 Corinthians 3:13 but it is to be understood of the Lord himself, and expresses his diligence in sitting and separating good men and principles from bad ones, just as silver is purified and refined from dross. Maimonides a understands the passage of the Messiah; for he says,

"in the days of the King Messiah, when his kingdom is restored, and all Israel shall be gathered to him, all will have their genealogies set right by his mouth, through the Holy Spirit that rests upon him, as it is said, "he shall sit a refiner and purifier":''

as a refiner sits and observes his metal while it is melting, and waits the proper time to pour it out and separate the dross from it; so Christ is here represented as sitting, while his people are purifying and refining by the various ways and means he makes use of: it denotes the continued care of Christ over them; his eye is upon them, that nothing be lost but their dross and corruption; and his patience in waiting to be gracious to them, and do them good; and his diligent attention to the proper season of doing it; designing by all that he does, not their hurt and damage, but their real good, for he saves them, though it be by fire; and indeed every trial and affliction is for the purifying of their souls, and the brightening of their graces, and increasing their spiritual experience, light, and knowledge.

And he shall purify the sons of Levi; the priests, either literally understood, some of these were converted from their evil principles and practices, and became obedient to the doctrines of the Gospel, Acts 6:7 or figuratively, the apostles of Christ and ministers of the Gospel, who were made clean by him; or rather all the people of God, who are made priests as well as kings, and are a royal priesthood, and are purified by Christ, both by his blood, and the imputation of his righteousness, by which they become without spot and blemish, and as white as snow; and by the Spirit in sanctification, he sprinkling clean water upon them, and purifying their hearts by faith in the blood of Jesus; and also by afflictive dispensations of Providence sanctified unto them. Mention is made of the priests and Levites, because these were so very corrupt in the times of Christ, and as appears from the preceding chapters.

And purge them as gold and silver; are purged in the fire from their dross: this shows of what worth and value, and in what esteem the Lord's people are to him; he reckons of them as gold and silver, and as his peculiar treasure: and it suggests, that before conversion they are joined unto and mixed with wicked men, comparable to dross; and that they have in them the dross, corruption, and impurity of sin; which is original and natural to them, and inherent in them, and which can only be removed by the grace of God and blood of Christ.

That they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; themselves, their bodies and souls; the sacrifices of prayer, praise, and alms deeds; to the offering up of which in righteousness, in sincerity and truth, in an upright way, it is necessary that a person should be purified by the blood of Christ, and sanctified by the grace of his Spirit.

a Hilchot Melachim, c. 12. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And He shall sit - ^o as a King and Judge on His throne, with authority, yet also to try accurately the cause of each, separating seeming virtues from real graces; hypocrites, more or less consciously, from His true servants.

He shall purify ^o the sons of Levi - These had been first the leaders in degeneracy, the corrupters of the people by their example and connivance. Actually Acts 6:7, “a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.” Barnabas also was a Levite. Acts 4:36. But more largely, as Zion and Jerusalem are the titles for the Christian Church, and Israel who believed was the true Israel, so “the sons of” Levi are the true Levites, the Apostles and their successors in the Christian priesthood.

It was through three centuries of persecutions that the Church was purified by fire.

That they may offer - , literally “and they shall be unto thy Lord offers of a meal-offering in righteousness,” i. e., they shall be such, and that, habitually, abidingly. Again, here and in the next words, “and the meal-offering of Judah shall be pleasant unto the Lord,” it is remarkable, that the “meal-offering,” to which the holy eucharist corresponds, is alone mentioned. Of bloody offerings Malachi is silent, for they were to cease.

In righteousness - , as Zacharias prophesied, “that we might serve Him in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 3:3. He shall sit as a refiner — Alluding to the case of a refiner of metals, sitting at his fire; increasing it when he sees necessary, and watching the process of his work.

The sons of Levi — Those who minister in their stead under the NEW covenant, for the OLD Levitical institutions shall be abolished; yet, under the preaching of our Lord, a great number of the priests became obedient to the faith, Acts 6:7; and, as to the others that did not believe, this great Refiner threw them as dross into the Roman fire, that consumed both Jerusalem and the temple.