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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
This is a very interesting thread and it touches on a subject that I have thought about several times...
It would appear from what we have seen so far that the quotes in the NT align more closely to Isaiah and do not align exactly to the writings of Malachi?
Is this every ones understanding thus far?
That seems very clear that the terminology in Isaiah lines up very nicely to the quotes in the NT and the writings in Malachi do not provide a close enough version to safely say they were quoting Malachi.
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I wrote the post above to get an agreement that we are at least at the understanding above and then I was going to comment further...
There are only a few of us discussing this so that might be quite a wait and might waste a pretty good bit of time...
So... taking that into consideration I will go ahead and put forth my thought for discussion.
I am excited to have seen this discussion because I, too, had been under the assumption that these verses being discussed in the NT were quoted from Malachi. It now seems clear that the quote structure leans heavily toward Isaiah and leans equally as heavily away from Malachi.
With that thought in mind I would like to share with you a feeling I have had about
Malachi 3 for quite some time.
For a number of years now I have felt strongly that the person being spoken of in Malachi was Nehemiah.
The robbing God etc from
Malachi 3 is speaking of the priests at the time of Nehemiah and he did indeed come to the temple and set things straight.
i have felt for some time that this was foretelling that God would send a man to set things straight at the temple and bring people back into proper obedience to his law.
your thoughts?
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