1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. …
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The first words of this chapter seem a direct answer to the profane atheistical demand of the scoffers of those days which closed the foregoing chapter: Where is the God of judgment ? To which it is readily answered, “Here he is; he is just at the door; the long-expected Messiah is ready to appear; and he says, For judgment have I come into this world , for that judgment which you have so impudent…
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