Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.
Against their blasphemous murmuring that God has deceived or forsaken them, I assert that His covenant shall not fail. Though men are perfidious, God remains true to His own nature and cannot depart from it; He triumphs gloriously over their slanders by accomplishing His promises in their due time.
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Commenting on Malachi 3:1-18
These people gather in clubs against religion, sharpening their wits to mock and ridicule God's word, strengthening each other's hands in blasphemy. Their words are stout and loud, spoken proudly and without fear, designed to spread their atheism and infect the minds of others with contempt for Him.
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Commenting on Malachi 3:13-18
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another,.... Abarbinel thinks this is a continuation of the speech of the wicked; observing, that while they that work wickedness were set up, and they that tempted God escaped punishment, they that were religious, and feared God, "were destroyed one with another", particularly by the plague; so he would have the word rendered, which we...