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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 3:5 - 3:5
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I ... come near ... to judgment - I whom ye challenged, saying, “Where is the God of judgment?” (Mal 2:17). I whom ye think far off, and to be slow in judgment, am “near,” and will come as a “swift witness”; not only a judge, but also an eye-witness against sorcerers; for Mine eyes see every sin, though ye think I take no heed. Earthly judges need witnesses to enable them to decide aright: I alone need none (Psa 10:11; Psa 73:11; Psa 94:7, etc.).
sorcerers - a sin into which the Jews were led in connection with their foreign idolatrous wives. The Jews of Christ’s time also practiced sorcery (Act 8:9; Act 13:6; Gal 5:20; Josephus [Antiquities, 20.6; Wars of the Jews, 2.12.23]). It shall be a characteristic of the last Antichristian confederacy, about to be consumed by the brightness of Christ’s Coming (Mat 24:24; 2Th 2:9; Rev 13:13, Rev 13:14; Rev 16:13, Rev 16:14; also Rev 9:21; Rev 18:23; Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15). Romanism has practiced it; an order of exorcists exists in that Church.
adulterers - (Mal 2:15, Mal 2:16).
fear not me - the source of all sins.