Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Malachi 3:13

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13-18. He notices the complaint of the Jews that it is of no profit to serve Jehovah, for that the ungodly proud are happy; and declares He will soon bring the day when it shall be known that He puts an everlasting distinction between the godly and the ungodly. words . . . stout — Hebrew, "hard"; so "the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him" ( :- ) [HENDERSON]. have we spoken —The Hebrew expresses at once their assiduity and habit of speaking against God [VATABLUS]. The niphal form of the verb implies that these things were said, not directly to God, but of God, to one another ( :- ) [MOORE]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-mal-3-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/mal-3-13

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological