Malaquías 4:3

3 El día en que yo actúe, ustedes pisotearán a los perversos como si fueran polvo debajo de sus pies, dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.

Malaquías 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

Malachi 4:3

And ye shall tread down the wicked
As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, ( Isaiah 63:2 Isaiah 63:3 ) and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all their enemies, spiritual and temporal: for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet;
this refers to the burning of them, ( Malachi 4:1 ) and may be literally understood of their being burnt with the city and temple; when afterwards, as Grotius observes, the city of Jerusalem being in some measure rebuilt, and called Aelia, there was a Christian church in it, governed by bishops, who were converted Jews; and so might be literally said to trample upon the ashes of the wicked, who had persecuted them in times past, they being upon the very spot where these men were destroyed by fire: in the day that I shall do [this], saith the Lord of hosts:
or "in the day which I make" ^F13; that is, by the rising of the sun of righteousness, the Gospel day. The Talmud ^F14 interprets this verse of the bodies of the wicked in hell, which after twelve months will be consumed, and the wind will scatter them under the soles of the feet of the righteous.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (hve yna rva Mwyb) "eo die, quem ego facio", Cocceius.
F14 T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 17. 1.

Malaquías 4:3 In-Context

1 El día del juicio venidero
El Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales dice: «El día del juicio se acerca, ardiente como un horno. En aquel día el arrogante y el perverso serán quemados como paja. Serán consumidos, desde las raíces hasta las ramas.

2 »Sin embargo, para ustedes que temen mi nombre, se levantará el Sol de Justicia con sanidad en sus alas.
Saldrán libres, saltando de alegría como becerros sueltos en medio de los pastos.

3 El día en que yo actúe, ustedes pisotearán a los perversos como si fueran polvo debajo de sus pies, dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.

4 »Acuérdense de obedecer la ley de Moisés, mi servidor, todos los decretos y ordenanzas que le entregué en el monte Sinaí
para todo Israel.

5 »Miren, les envío al profeta Elías antes de que llegue el gran y terrible día del Señor
.