Malachiæ 4:4

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et respondi, et aio ad angelum qui loquebatur in me, dicens : Quid sunt hæc, domine mi ?

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Mementote legis Moysi servi mei, quam mandavi ei in Horeb ad omnem Isra�l, pr�cepta et judicia.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[3:22] Mementote legis Moysi servi mei, cui mandavi in Horeb ad omnem Israel praecepta et iudicia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the law: Exodus 20:3-21, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:6, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Isaiah 8:20, Isaiah 42:21, Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 19:16-22, Matthew 22:36-40, Mark 12:28-34, Luke 10:25-28, Luke 16:29-31, John 5:39-47, Romans 3:31, Romans 13:1-10, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:24, Galatians 5:25, James 2:9-13

in: Deuteronomy 4:10

with: Exodus 21:1 - Exodus 23:33, Leviticus 1:1 - Leviticus 7:38, Psalms 147:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:1 - Horeb Numbers 3:51 - as the Lord Deuteronomy 4:44 - General Deuteronomy 5:31 - General Deuteronomy 31:9 - Moses Deuteronomy 34:5 - So Moses 1 Kings 2:3 - written 1 Kings 19:8 - Horeb 2 Kings 23:25 - according 1 Chronicles 16:15 - ye mindful Nehemiah 1:7 - which thou Nehemiah 8:1 - bring Nehemiah 10:29 - given Isaiah 26:8 - in Isaiah 56:1 - Keep Jeremiah 6:16 - Stand Ezekiel 46:9 - come before John 3:28 - but John 9:29 - know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,.... Who was faithful as such in the house of God, in delivering the law to the children of Israel, which was given him; and who are called upon to remember it, its precepts and its penalties, which they were apt to forget: and particularly this exhortation is given now, because no other prophet after Malachi would be sent unto them, this is what they should have and use as their rule and directory; and because that Christ, now prophesied of, would be the end of this law; and this, and the prophets, were to be until the days of John the Baptist, spoken of in the next verse Malachi 4:5; and the rather, because in this period of time, between Malachi and the coming of Christ, the traditions of the elders were invented and obtained, which greatly set aside the law, and made it of no effect:

which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel; for though the law came by Moses, and is therefore called his, yet God was the author and efficient cause of it; Moses was only a servant and minister; and this was given in Horeb, the same with Sinai: these are names of one and the same mountain, at least of the parts of it; one part of it was called Horeb, from its being a dry desert and desolate place; and the other Sinai, from its bushes and brambles. So Jerom o says,

"Horeb, the mountain of God, is in the land of Midian, by Mount Sinai, above Arabia in the wilderness, to which are joined the mountain and wilderness of the Saracens, called Pharan; but to me it seems the same mountain is called by two names, sometimes Sinai, and sometimes Horeb;''

see Exodus 31:18. Agreeably to which Josephus p calls Horeb, where Moses fed his flock, and saw the vision of the burning bush, Mount Sinai; and says, it was the highest of the mountains in those parts, very convenient for pasture, and abounded with excellent herbage. Some say q the eastern part of it was called Sinai, and the western part Horeb; it is very likely they joined together at the bottom of the mountain, and were the two tops of it. This being mentioned shows, that the law, strictly taken, and not the prophets, is here designed, for no other was commanded, ordered, or delivered in Horeb; and that was for all the children of Israel in successive ages, until the coming of the Messiah, and for them only, as to the ministration of it by Moses.

[With] the statutes and judgments; the laws ceremonial and judicial, which were given to Moses, at the same time the law of the decalogue was, to be observed by the children of Israel, and which were shadows of things to come; namely, those of them that were of a ceremonial nature, and therefore to be remembered and attended to as leading to Christ, and the things of the Gospel.

o De locis Hebr. fol. 92. E. p Antiqu. l. 2. c. 12. q Vid. Adrichomii Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 122. Well's Geography of the Old Testament, vol. 2. p. 118.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember ye the law of Moses, My servant - Galatians 3:24. “The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.” They then who were most faithful to the law, would be most prepared for Christ. But for those of his own day, too, who were negligent both of the ceremonial and moral law, he says “Since the judgment of God will be so fearful, remember now unceasingly and observe the law of God given by Moses.”

Which I commanded - ^o

Unto him for - (literally upon, incumbent upon) all Israel Not Moses commanded them, but God by His servant Moses; therefore He “would in the day of judgment take strict account of each, whether they had or had not kept them. He would glorify those who obeyed, He would condemn those who disobeyed them.” They had asked, “Where is the God of judgment? What profit, that we have kept the ordinance?” He tells them of the judgment to come, and bids them take heed, that they did indeed keep them, for there was a day of account to be held for all.

The statutes and judgments - Better, “statutes and judgments,” i. e., consisting in them; it seems added as an explanation of the word, law, individualizing them. Duty is fulfilled, not in a general acknowledgment of law, or an arbitrary selection of some favorite commandments, which cost the human will less; as, in our Lord’s time, they minutely observed the law of tithes, but Matthew 23:23 : “omitted weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.” It is in obedience to the commandments, one by one, one and all. Moses exhorted to the keeping of the law, under these same words: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:14, “Now, therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and judgments which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live. Ye shall not add unto the word that I command you, neither shall ye diminish it. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me. What nation so great, that hath statutes and judgments, righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? The Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land, whither ye go to possess it.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 4:4. Remember ye the law of Moses — Where all these things are predicted. The Septuagint, Arabic, and Coptic, place this verse the last.