Charles Ellicott Commentary Malachi 4:4-6

"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." — Malachi 4:4-6 (ASV)

CONCLUDING ADMONITION.

As the prophetical books began (Joshua 1:2, 8) with Moses my servant is dead ... this book of the Law shall not be removed from your mouth, etc., so they close with the admonition, Remember you the Law of Moses my servant. (Deuteronomy 8:14.)

The path of duty is the path of safety and of light. (Compare to John 7:17.) Mysteries belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed are for us and for our children for ever, in order to perform all the words of this Law (Deuteronomy 29:29; compare also to Ecclesiastes 12:13).

The best preparation for the reception of the New Covenant, when God would put His law in their inward parts and write it on their heart (Jeremiah 31:32), must necessarily be the hearty observance of the spirit of the Old.