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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 3:17 - 3:17
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jewels - (Isa 62:3). Literally, “My peculiar treasure” (Exo 19:5; Deu 7:6; Deu 14:2; Deu 26:18; Psa 135:4; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 2:9; compare Ecc 2:8). Calvin translates more in accordance with Hebrew idiom, “They shall be My peculiar treasure in the day in which I will do it” (that is, fulfil My promise of gathering My completed Church; or, “make” those things come to pass foretold in Mal 3:5 above [Grotius]); so in Mal 4:3 “do” is used absolutely, “in the day that I shall do this.” Maurer, not so well, translates, “in the day which I shall make,” that is, appoint as in Psa 118:24.
as ... man spareth ... son - (Psa 103:18).