Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I . . . come near . . . to judgment—I whom ye challenged, saying, "Where is the God of judgment?" (Malachi 2:17). I whom ye think far off, and to be slow in judgment, am "near," and will come as a "swift witness"; not only a judge, but also an eye-witness against sorcerers; for Mine eyes see every sin, though ye think I take no heed. Earthly judges need witnesses to enable them to decide aright: I alone need none (Psalms 10:11; Psalms 73:11; Psalms 94:7, etc.).
sorcerers—a sin into which the Jews were led in connection with their foreign idolatrous wives. The Jews of Christ's time also practised sorcery (Acts 8:9; Acts 13:6; Galatians 5:20; JOSEPHUS [Antiquities, 20.6; Wars of the Jews, 2.12.23]). It shall be a characteristic of the last Antichristian confederacy, about to be consumed by the brightness of Christ's Coming (Matthew 24:24; II Thessalonians 2:9; Revelation 13:13-14; Revelation 16:13-14; also Revelation 9:21; Revelation 18:23; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15). Romanism has practised it; an order of exorcists exists in that Church.
adulterers— (Malachi 2:15-16).
fear not me—the source of all sins.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Malachi 3:5:
Jeremiah 5:29
Daniel 9:26
Zephaniah 3:8
Zechariah 5:4
Malachi 3:17
2 Corinthians 1:23
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