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A Total and Final Judgment
Commentators unanimously highlight the terrifying and complete nature of the judgment described. The imagery of a furnace burning stubble until 'neither root nor branch' remains signifies a final, irreversible destruction. This isn't a temporary punishment but a total end for those who are proud and wicked, leaving no hope for recovery or continuation.
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Malachi
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Albert Barnes
On Malachi 4:1
18th Century
Theologian
For, behold, the day comes, which shall burn as an oven - He had declared the great separation of the God-fearing and the God-blasp…
Charles Ellicott
On Malachi 4:1
19th Century
Bishop
The day already foretold in Malachi 3:2 shall be as a fire burning fiercely as a furnace, and the wicked—not only the heathen, but the mur…
Charles Spurgeon
On Malachi 4:1–2
19th Century
Preacher
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that c…
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John Calvin
On Malachi 4:1
16th Century
Theologian
He confirms the previous verse, for he denounces ruin on all the reprobate and the despisers of God. He also confirms what I have mentioned—that he…
John Gill
On Malachi 4:1
17th Century
Pastor
For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven
Not the day of judgment, as Kimchi and other interpreters, bot…
Matthew Henry
On Malachi 4:1–3
17th Century
Minister
Here is a reference to the first and to the second coming of Christ: God has fixed the day of both. Those who do wickedly, who do not fear God's an…