Malachiæ 4:1

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et reversus est angelus qui loquebatur in me, et suscitavit me quasi virum qui suscitatur de somno suo.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ecce enim dies veniet succensa quasi caminus: et erunt omnes superbi et omnes facientes impietatem stipula: et inflammabit eos dies veniens, dicit Dominus exercituum, qu� non derelinquet eis radicem et germen.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[3:19] Ecce enim dies veniet succensa quasi caminus; et erunt omnes superbi et omnes facientes impietatem stipula; et inflammabit eos dies veniens, dicit Dominus exercituum, quae non derelinquet eis radicem et ramum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the day: Malachi 4:5, Malachi 3:2, Ezekiel 7:10, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:31, Zephaniah 1:14, Zechariah 14:1, Luke 19:43, Luke 21:20, 2 Peter 3:7

shall burn: Psalms 21:9, Psalms 21:10, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Zephaniah 1:18, Matthew 3:12, 2 Thessalonians 1:8

and all the: Malachi 3:15, Malachi 3:18, Exodus 15:7, Psalms 119:119, Isaiah 2:12-17, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 40:24, Isaiah 41:2, Isaiah 47:14, Obadiah 1:18, Nahum 1:10

that it: Job 18:16, Amos 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:22 - For a fire 2 Samuel 22:39 - General 2 Samuel 22:43 - as small 2 Kings 10:17 - he slew Job 40:11 - behold Psalms 50:3 - a fire Psalms 83:14 - As the fire Psalms 92:7 - workers Psalms 97:3 - General Psalms 119:21 - rebuked Ecclesiastes 2:13 - I saw Isaiah 1:31 - and they Isaiah 2:11 - lofty Isaiah 4:4 - by the spirit Isaiah 9:9 - in the pride Isaiah 9:18 - wickedness Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame Isaiah 13:9 - cruel Isaiah 23:9 - to stain Isaiah 24:6 - hath Isaiah 26:11 - fire Isaiah 28:18 - trodden down by it Isaiah 31:9 - whose fire Isaiah 43:2 - when thou walkest Isaiah 61:2 - and Jeremiah 7:20 - Behold Jeremiah 30:7 - for Jeremiah 30:15 - thy sorrow Lamentations 2:3 - he burned Ezekiel 12:23 - The days Ezekiel 15:4 - the fire Ezekiel 20:38 - I will purge Ezekiel 21:32 - for fuel Ezekiel 22:15 - consume Ezekiel 24:11 - that the filthiness Daniel 11:7 - out of Daniel 11:35 - to try Hosea 9:16 - their root Hosea 11:6 - consume Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is Amos 9:10 - the sinners Zephaniah 1:7 - for the day Zephaniah 2:2 - before the fierce Zechariah 13:8 - two Matthew 3:10 - now Matthew 13:30 - burn Matthew 21:41 - He will Matthew 24:21 - General Luke 12:49 - come Luke 17:24 - in Luke 21:22 - all Acts 2:19 - General Acts 13:40 - Beware 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - for Hebrews 6:8 - whose Hebrews 10:27 - fiery

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven,.... Not the day of judgment, as Kimchi and other interpreters, both Jewish and Christian, think; but the day of Christ's coming in his kingdom and power, to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which burned like an oven, both figuratively and literally; when the wrath of God, which is compared to fire, came upon that people to the uttermost; and when their city and temple were burnt about their ears, and they were surrounded with fire, as if they had been in a burning oven: and this being so terrible, as can hardly be conceived and expressed, the word "behold" is prefixed to it, not only to excite attention, but horror and terror at so dreadful a calamity; which though future, when the prophet wrote, was certain:

and all the proud; yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; the proud Pharisees, that boasted of their own righteousness, trusted in themselves, and despised others; all workers of iniquity, in private or in public; all rejecters of Christ, contemners of his Gospel and ordinances, and persecutors of his people; as well as such who were guilty of the most flagitious crimes, as sedition, robbery, murder, c. of which there were notorious instances during the siege of Jerusalem these were all like stubble before devouring fire, weak and easily destroyed:

and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts: which is repeated, to show the certainty of it, and to apply it to the persons before described:

that it shall leave them neither root nor branch: which signifies an entire and complete destruction; the city and temple so utterly destroyed, that not one stone shall be left on another; both magistrates and subjects shall perish, priests and people, so that there shall be no form of government, civil nor ecclesiastical; tribes and families lost, they and their posterity: and so the Targum,

"which shall not leave them son and nephew:''

and, indeed, the numbers cut off were so many, and the destruction so general, that it may be wondered at that any remained: it is a proverbial expression, setting forth the greatness of the calamity; see Matthew 3:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For, behold, the day cometh, which shall burn as an oven - He had declared the great severance of the God-fearing and the God-blaspheming, those who served and those who did not serve God; the righteous and the wicked; now he declares the way and time of the severance, the Day of Judgment. Daniel had described the fire of that day, Daniel 7:9-10, “The throne (of the Ancient of days) was a fiery flame; his wheels a burning fire: a fiery stream issued and came forth from Him: the judgment was set and the books were opened.” Fire is ever spoken of, as accompanying the judgment Psalms 50:3. “Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence, a fire shall devour before Him Isaiah 66:15-16. Behold the Lord will come with fire: for by fire and by the sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: 1 Corinthians 3:13 every man’s work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire: and the fire shall try every man’s work, of what sort it is.” Peter tells us that fire will be of this burning world; 2 Peter 3:7-10. “the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of’ ungodly men; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”

The oven, or furnace, pictures the intensity of the heat, which is white from its intensity, and darts forth, fiercely, shooting up like a living creature, and destroying life, as the flame of the fire of NebuchadnezzarsDaniel 3:22; Daniel 3:22 “burning fiery furnace slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.” The whole world shall be one burning furnace.

And all the proud and all that do wickedly - All those, whom those complainers pronounced “blessed,” Malachi 3:15, yea and all who should thereafter be like them (he insists on the universality of the judgment), “every doer of wickedness,” up to that day and those who should then be, shall be stubble.” The proud and mighty, who in this life were strong as iron and brass, so that no one dared resist them, but they dared to fight with God, these, in the Day of Judgment, shall be most powerless, as stubble cannot resist the fire, in an ever-living death.”

That shall leave them neither root nor branch - “i. e. they shall have no hope of shooting up again to life; that life, I mean, which is worthy of love, and in glory with God, in holiness and bliss. For when the root has not been wholly cut away, nor the shoot torn up as from the depth, some hope is retained, that it may again shoot up. For, as it is written Job 10:4 :7, ‘There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sproul again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.’ But if it be wholly torn up from below and from its very roots, and its shoots be fiercely cut away, all hope, that it can again shoot up to life, will perish also. So, he saith, will all hope of the lovers of sin perish. For so the divine Isaiah clearly announces Isaiah 66:24, “their worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 Malachi 4:1. 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 Malachi 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.