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**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterisrmos.* App-6 .
**all that do.** Hebrew = every one who doeth. But some eighty codices, with four early printed editions, Targum, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all who work. "
**wickedly** = lawlessness. Hebrew rasha'. App-44 .
**saith** = hath said.
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Malachi 1:4](../../../kjv/malachi/1/4) .
**leave** . *A Homonym.* See notes on [Genesis 39:6](../../../kjv/genesis/39/6) . [Exodus 23:5](../../../kjv/exodus/23/5) .

**fear** = revere. See the Structure "Y" and "Y", p. 1300.
**Sun** . Here the word "Sun" is feminine, as in [Genesis 15:17](../../../kjv/genesis/15/17) . [Jeremiah 15:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/9) . [Nahum 3:17](../../../kjv/nahum/3/17) , &c.; and is connected with "rightousness" (which is also feminine), which Messiah, the righteous One, alone can bring.
**of.** In this case "of "would be the Genitive of Apposition. See App-17 .
**wings** = beams, or rays.
**ye.** The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omits this "ye".
**grow up** = leap for joy, or frisk.
**as** = like.

**the wicked** = lawless ones. Hebrew rasha '. App-44 .
**in the day** . See App-18 .
**I shall do this** = that I am preparing; as in [Malachi 3:17](../../../kjv/malachi/3/17) .

**the law of Moses.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 20:3](../../../kjv/exodus/20/3) , &c.) App-92 .
**Moses My servant.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 12:7](../../../kjv/numbers/12/7) ; see note there). App-92 .
**which I commanded,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 1:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/6) ; [Deuteronomy 4:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/10) ). App-92 .
**statutes and judgments.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 4:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/1) . See note there). App-92 .

**Elijah the prophet.** Called thus, only here, and in [2 Chronicles 21:12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/12) . Elsewhere, always "Elijah the Tishbite", to indicate his own person; but here "Elijah the prophet "because had Israel received Messiah, John the Baptist would have been reckoned as Elijah (see notes on [Matthew 17:9-13](../../../kjv/matthew/17/9-13) , [Mark 9:11-13](../../../kjv/mark/9/11-13) ): and, at His last supper, the wine, representing His blood, would have been (as it will yet be) reckoned as "the blood of the (New) Covenant", as foretold in [Jeremiah 31:31-34](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/31-34) .[Hebrews 8:8-13](../../../kjv/hebrews/8/8-13) ; [Hebrews 10:15-17](../../../kjv/hebrews/10/15-17) ; [Hebrews 12:24](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/24) ).
**day of the LORD** . See note on [Isaiah 2:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/12) , [Isaiah 2:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/17) ; [Isaiah 13:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/13/6) , &c.
**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .

**children** = sons.

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