Malachiæ 4:3

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et duæ olivæ super illud : una a dextris lampadis, et una a sinistris ejus.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et calcabitis impios, cum fuerint cinis sub planta pedum vestrorum, in die qua ego facio, dicit Dominus exercituum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[3:21] et calcabitis impios, cum fuerint cinis sub planta pedum vestrorum in die, quam ego facio, dicit Dominus exercituum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tread down: Genesis 3:15, Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:25, 2 Samuel 22:43, Job 40:12, Psalms 91:13, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 26:6, Isaiah 63:3-6, Daniel 7:18, Daniel 7:27, Micah 5:8, Micah 7:10, Zechariah 10:5, Romans 16:20, Revelation 11:15, Revelation 14:20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:39 - General 1 Kings 5:3 - put 2 Kings 9:33 - and he trode 2 Chronicles 22:7 - destruction Psalms 7:5 - tread Psalms 9:5 - destroyed Psalms 18:42 - cast Psalms 49:14 - upright Psalms 60:12 - tread Psalms 119:118 - trodden Proverbs 14:19 - General Isaiah 16:4 - oppressors Isaiah 27:4 - who would Lamentations 1:15 - trodden Ezekiel 28:18 - I will bring

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall tread down the wicked,.... As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, Isaiah 63:2 and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all their enemies, spiritual and temporal:

for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet; this refers to the burning of them, Malachi 4:1 and may be literally understood of their being burnt with the city and temple; when afterwards, as Grotius observes, the city of Jerusalem being in some measure rebuilt, and called Aelia, there was a Christian church in it, governed by bishops, who were converted Jews; and so might be literally said to trample upon the ashes of the wicked, who had persecuted them in times past, they being upon the very spot where these men were destroyed by fire:

in the day that I shall do [this], saith the Lord of hosts: or "in the day which I make" m; that is, by the rising of the sun of righteousness, the Gospel day. The Talmud n interprets this verse of the bodies of the wicked in hell, which after twelve months will be consumed, and the wind will scatter them under the soles of the feet of the righteous.

m ביום אשר אני עשה "eo die, quem ego facio", Cocceius. n T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 17. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. It shall be a great reversal. He that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he, that humbleth himself shall be exalted - Here the wicked often have the pre-eminence. This was the complaint of the murmurers among the Jews; in the morning of the Resurrection Psalms 49:14, “the upright shall have dominion over them.” The wicked, he had said, shall be as stubble, and that day Psalms 4:1, “shall burn them up;” here, then, they are as the ashes, the only remnant of the stubble, as the dust under the feet. “The elect shall rejoice, that they have, in mercy, escaped such misery. Therefore they shall be kindled inconceivably with the divine love, and shall from their inmost heart give thanks unto God.” And being thus of one mind with God, and seeing all things as He seeth, they will rejoice in His judgments, because they are His. For they cannot have one slightest velleity, other than the all-perfect Will of God. So Isaiah closes his prophecy Isaiah 66:24, “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men, that have transgressed against Me, for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh. So Psalms 58:10. The righteous shall rejoice, when he seeth the vengeance;” and another Psalmist Psalms 107:42, “The righteous shall see and rejoice; and all wickedness shall stop her mouth; and Job Job 22:19. The righteous see and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 4:3. Ye shall tread down — This may be the commission given to the Romans: Tread down the wicked people, tread down the wicked place; set it on fire, and let the ashes be trodden down under your feet.