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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

am about to send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me] This is the answer to the skeptical question of the people. The wrongs of the present age are to be righted by Yahweh in person, and he is even now on the point of sending out his forerunner. The long-looked-for day of Yahweh is about to dawn. From earliest times, this day had been reckoned upon as the panacea for all ills; cf. Am. 5:18.* Our prophet is but reiterating a promise that had been made and remade in every time of distress
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