1 Machabæorum 11:10

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Hic est enim de quo scriptum est : Ecce ego mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam, qui præparabit viam tuam ante te.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Hic est enim de quo scriptum est: Ecce ego mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam, qui pr�parabit viam tuam ante te.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Hic est, de quo scriptum est: "Ecce ego mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam, qui praeparabit viam tuam ante te".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 3:3, Isaiah 40:3, Malachi 3:1, Malachi 4:5, Mark 1:2, Luke 7:26, Luke 7:27, John 1:23

Reciprocal: Luke 1:76 - thou shalt John 1:6 - a man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is he of whom it is written,.... Malachi 3:1

Behold I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. That these words belong לעולם הבא, to the world to come, or the times of the Messiah, that is, the Gospel dispensation, the Jews z themselves own; but as to the particular person meant by the "messenger", or "angel", because they are not willing to acknowledge the right person, are at the utmost loss. Jarchi makes him to be the angel of death, who is to destroy the wicked; Aben Ezra conjectures it may be Messiah the son of Joseph, who they fancy will come before Messiah the son of David. Kimchi thinks an angel from heaven is designed; and Abarbinel Malachi himself: but the more ancient sense of the synagogue was, that the same person is meant, as in Mark 9:5 under the name of Elijah the prophet; and some have thought, that Elijah the Tishbite himself, is intended; though others think, that some great prophet of equal degree with him, and who is called by his name, is what the prophecy has regard unto a; which last is the true sense of the passage: nor should it be once called in question, when our Lord himself has applied it to John the Baptist; to whom the things said in it perfectly agree. He was an "angel", not by nature, but by office; a "messenger" sent by God, "before the face" of the Messiah; six months before him: such a space of time he was born before him; and such a space of time he entered on his public ministry before him; and "prepared" his "way before" him, by preaching the doctrine of repentance, administering the ordinance of baptism, pointing at the Messiah, and exhorting persons to believe on him. All which proves him to be, what Christ says he was, "more than a prophet".

z Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 15. fol. 219. 4. a Vid. Pocock in Mal. iii. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is he ... - The passage of Scripture here quoted is found in Malachi 3:1. The substance of it is contained also in Isaiah 40:3.

Prepare thy way - That is, to prepare “the people;” to make them ready, by proper instructions, to receive the Messiah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 11:10. Behold, I send my messenger — A fifth excellency of the Baptist was, his preparing the way of the Lord; being the instrument, in God's hand, of preparing the people's hearts to receive the Lord Jesus; and it was probably through his preaching that so many thousands attached themselves to Christ, immediately on his appearing as a public teacher.