A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Malachi
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“What a gracious invitation God gives them to return and repent!” (Page 23)
“It was partly a free-will offering, and partly prescribed by the law. They withheld tithes, notwithstanding that God had already visited them with severe punishment, which aggravated their guilt. They had been cursed, as we learn from the following verses, with failure of the harvest and famine. This curse corresponded to their sin. As they had refused to give God his due withholding the tithes and offerings, so had He withheld from them the products of the field.” (Page 22)
“The Targum regards Ezra as the author of the prophecy, and is followed in this opinion, with more or less confidence, by Jerome, Calvin, Hengstenberg, and Umbreit. ‘I am disposed to grant,’ says Calvin, ‘that the author was Ezra, and that Malachi was his surname, for God had called him to do great and remarkable things.’” (Page 3)
“He rebukes the irreligion of the people, their denial of God’s justice, and their withholding tithes and offerings” (Page 4)
“As there lies in the address of Jehovah the key to the understanding of the history of our life, so there lies in the reply of Israel the key to the understanding of our hearts. The history of our life appears, according to it, as a history of love, wherein the bitter as well as the sweet have only our good for their end, and as a decree of love, according to which nothing is accidental, but all ordained from eternity. Our heart appears in it in its blindness, since though the proofs of God’s love are very plain yet we fail to understand them, and in its ingratitude, and distrust the source of this blindness; or, the history of our life confirms to us what the Lord here testifies, and our perverse and desponding heart at least thinks what Israel here objects.” (Page 9)
- Title: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Malachi
- Authors: Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, Joseph Packard
- Series: Lange’s Commentary
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Malachi › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LANGE39MAL
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:03:27Z