Between the righteous and the wicked; And him who serveth him not. CHAP. IV. 1 FOR behold, the day cometh which shall burn as a furnace; And all the proud, And all that do wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day which cometh shall burn them up, For it shall not leave them root or branch. But unto you that fear my name, Shall the sun of righteousness arise, † with healing in his wings. And ye shall go forth, and thrive, as bullocks of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked: for they shall be as dust Under the soles of your feet, In the day which I shall appoint; Saith Jehovah God of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, + Hebr. and. ---and the wicked] For the Hebrew form, see on Joel ii. 17. CHAP. IV. 1. ---root or branch] It shall totally consume them. A proverbial expression. 2. that fear] Or, O ye that fear. Arab. Bahrdt. -wings] Metaphorically, for rays. The disciples of the Messiah shall be preserved from the destruction by the Romans. -go forth] To the pasture. -and thrive] Some render the original word exiliit. See 6. 3. ye shall tread down] Ye shall know that they are wholly subdued. -as dust] Some say that here is an allusion to the treading of mortar, made one part of sand and two of ashes. Harmer i. 179. 4. Remember] This precept well suits the last of the prophets. o. Ar. place this v. after v. 5. 6. and it forms as apt a 5 6 Which I commanded him in Horeb Concerning all Israel: even the statutes and the Behold, I will send unto you Before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come: And the heart of the children together with their fathers: Lest I come and smite the land with a curse. Or. utter destruction. conclusion as repeating the prophecy of Christ's harbinger. See c. iii. 1 "MS. Copt. also places this verse last." Mr. Woide. 5. Elijah] John the Baptist, who should come in the spirit and power of Elijah. Luke i. 17. -day of Jehovah] When he shall take vengeance on the Jews by the Roman armies. 6. -together with] See by in the sense of una cum Gen. xxxii. 11: Amos iii. 15: where ó. have TV ix, which answers to Txva Luke i. 17: Hos. x. 14: where ó. have Ex. xxx. 22: Mic. v. 3: where o. have in tus vis. See Nold. That he may convert many. See Matth. iii. 5. .9 .$ על -the land] Three MSS. and one in the margin add : all the land which is the reading of Chald. 113, 120, 133, 140, 141, 145, 197, 215, 222, 255 Arrian 189 Augustin 325 Cyril 119, 191, 205 Dathius 15, 85, 121, 225. 255 David, a future king of the Jews 76 Bahrdt 89, 103, 108, 112, 114, 115, De Dieu 355 201, 204, 207, 208, 226, 228, De Lisle 144, 331 230, 237. 238, 243, 256, 260, 261 Demetrius Phalereus xiii Beza xxv. 27 Dimock 91, 109, 117, 133. Blair, John xli. 115, 190, 249, 255, Dion Cassius 345 258, 271 Blanchini 325 Diodorus Siculus 8, 38, 177. 188 Dionysius 10 Blayney xix, xx, xxii, xxxi, xxxiii, Dow 69 xxxvi. 233, and notes on Zecha- Drusius 1, 14, 39, 81, 93, 174, 191, riah Bochart 1, and frequently Borromeo, Cardinal xi Bryant 16 Butler, Bishop 164 203 Durell xv. 34, 165, 168, 239, 241. 351 Erasmus XXV Buxtorf xii. 2, 28, 45, 60, 79, 185, Euripides 72, 141, 290 226 Eusebius xi. 57, 144 Forsayeth 7, 27, 39, 41, 43, 90, Fuller 236 Golius 153, 195 3 F Lowth, Mr. 214, 254, 301, 192, Lucan 228 Lucas Brugensis 303 Lucretius 136, 139 Ludolphus 197 Harmer 11, 26, 27, 30, 38, 42, 45, Lowth, Bishop, frequently 54, 57, 58, 75, 100, 181, 207, 228, 243 Heberden xvi. 264 Herodotus 8, 175, 185, 189, 268 Hiller 11 Hirtius 54 Lucian 177 Lucilius 36 Joseph, R. 263 Maddan 355 Maimonides 35, 263 Maundrell 26 Mead 203 Mede 50, 135, 303, 304. Mercer 182 Merrick 178 Micah 138 343 Michaelis I. D. xxxix. 27, 41, 55, 57, 89, 94, 98, 102, 121, 122, Michaelis I. H. 29, 48 Moerlius 3, 79, 80, 96, 251 Josephus vi. 14, 17, 18. 43, 183, Montfaucon 93. 115, 122 188, 249, 254, 258, 262, 264, Muretus 107 Origin x. 303 Orpheus 3. 192 Stephens, Henr. xxvi Strabo x. 8, 185, 189 Ovid 51, 141, 142, 169, 184, 210, Symmachus 4, 7, 9, 12, 74, 84, 92, Owen 157, 303, 325, 330 93, 95, 106, 120, 122, 141, 213' Swift xxxii Tacitus 66, 180 Tanchum R. 91, 113, 121 Taylor xii, xxvi, xxxviii. 2, 3, 37 Terence 93, 107. Pocock 16, 48, 68, 74, 78, 80, 82, Theocritus 270 Randolph 303, 312, 325 Remigius 198 Robertson 132 Sophocles 52 Theodotion 9, 18, 93, 74, 104, 120, Tobit 190 Usher 115, 249 Velleius Paterculus 189 Virgil xiv, xv. 9, 10, 19, 22, 34, 45, Vitringa 39, 175, 249, 268, 270, Wesseling 39 Westerhovius 107 Wetstein 205, 234, 325 Wheeler frequently White xi, xii Wintle 203, 235, 237, 239 Woide xvi, xxxix. 26, 27, 35, 57 62, 76, 117, 119, 124 156, 161, Wolfius 302 Xenophon 9, 187, 228 Spencer 21, 29, 37, 38, 39, 75, 109, Zechariah, whether the author of c. Statius 131 Stephanus de urbibus 1 ix-xiv. 303-8 Zephaniah beautiful, 215 Stephens, Rob. 96 |