![]() ![]() What they said one to another: this is spoken after the manner of men, and does not so much regard the omniscience of God, who hearkens and hears everything that is said by wicked men, as by good men as his special regard unto, peculiar notice he takes of, and the approbation he has of his people, and of their words and actions, and even of their thoughts, as is afterwards intimated: and a book of remembrance was written before him ![]() &c.] Abarbinel thinks this is a continuation of the speech of the wicked observing, that while they that work wickedness were set up, and they that tempted God escaped punishment, they that were religious, and feared God, "were destroyed one with another", particularly by the plague so he would have the word ( wrbdn) rendered, which we translate, "spake often one to another" in which sense he observes that root is used in ( Hosea 13:14 ) ( Psalms 47:3 ) ( 2 Kings 11:1 ) but rather this is opposed unto what they said, by such, who, at the time referred to (which seems to be between the time of Christ's coming, spoken of in the beginning of the chapter ( Malachi 3:1-6 ), and the destruction of Jerusalem after mentioned), feared the Lord, and served him embraced the Messiah, and professed his name for the fear of God takes in the whole of religious worship, both internal and external and describes such, not that have a dread of the majesty of God, and of his judgments and wrath, or distrust his power, providence, grace, and goodness but who have a filial and holy fear of God, a fiducial and fearless one, a reverential affection for him, and are true and sincere worshippers of him: these "spake often one to another" of the unbelief, impiety, and profaneness of men, with great concern and lamentation and of the great and good things they were led into the knowledge of the everlasting love of the Father in the choice of them, and covenant with them in Christ of redemption by the Son of the glories of his person, and the fulness of his grace of the work of the Spirit of God upon their souls and of the various truths of the everlasting Gospel and of the gracious experiences they were indulged with and all this they said for the glory of God's grace, and for the comforting and strengthening, and edifying, of each other's souls: it follows, and the Lord hearkened, and heard Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another,
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