Between the righteous and the wicked;
Between him who serveth God,

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,
Saith Jehovah God of hosts:

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
judgments.

Behold, I will send unto you
Elijah the prophet,

Before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come:
That he may convert the heart of the fathers to-
gether with the children,

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
118, 127, 132, 133, 134, 200, Delany xxii

201, 204, 207, 208, 226, 228, De Lisle 144, 331

230, 237. 238, 243, 256, 260, 261 Demetrius Phalereus xiii
Barrington, Bishop 89.

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
Doddridge xxxiii

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
Ennius 54

Erasmus XXV

Buxtorf xii. 2, 28, 45, 60, 79, 185, Euripides 72, 141, 290

226

Eusebius xi. 57, 144
Eustathius 8, 228

Forsayeth 7, 27, 39, 41, 43, 90,
106, 107, 112, 113. 120, 122,
127, 142, 148, 174, 179, 180,
193, 214, 221, 231

Fuller 236

Golius 153, 195
Grabe xi

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

Lucian 177

Lucilius 36

Maddan 355

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'
222, 230, 234, 236

Swift xxxii

Tacitus 66, 180

Tanchum R. 91, 113, 121

Taylor xii, xxvi, xxxviii. 2, 3, 37
75, 84, 89, 93, 107, 114, 174,
239, 274

Terence 93, 107.

Pocock 16, 48, 68, 74, 78, 80, 82, Theocritus 270
88, 90, 91, 102, 105, 106, 112,
114, 115, 134, 141, 156, 174, 207
Prideaux 186, 262, 268, 272, 276
Priestly xxxiii
Propertius 100
Pul 9.

Randolph 303, 312, 325
Ray 192, 198

Remigius 198

Robertson 132

Sophocles 52

Theodotion 9, 18, 93, 74, 104, 120,
130, 177, 213, 222, 234, 288
Theophrastus 268
Thevenot 203
Thuanus 196
Tibullus 51, 72

Tobit 190

Usher 115, 249

Velleius Paterculus 189

Virgil xiv, xv. 9, 10, 19, 22, 34, 45,
53, 57, 72, 74, 81, 110, 124,
129, 176, 186, 192, 193, 200,
209, 211, 221

Vitringa 39, 175, 249, 268, 270,
271, 274, 275, 291, 317

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,
212, 227, 239, 245, 278

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