Malachi 4:1

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For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Furnace. At the day of judgment, the difference between the just and the wicked will plainly appear. (Worthington) This sense is most generally given, as well as to those words where our Saviour speaks of the signs of the destruction of Jerusalem and of the end of the world together, Matthew xxiv. 3., and Luke xxi. 5. Yet the prophet may also allude to the punishment of the Jews by the Romans, when all were assembled at the Passover, (Calmet) a scourge which the Christians escaped by retiring to Pella. (Eusebius, History of the Church iii. 5.) Proud. Septuagint, "strangers. "(Calmet) Branch. No hope shall remain. (Menochius)

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