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This commentary by Pieter A. Verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of Haggai and Malachi—two important books of Scripture that, unfortunately, are not only little studied but have sometimes been maligned by contemporary scholarship—and stresses the relevance of these prophets’ messages in terms of continuity and discontinuity for the Christian church. Verhoef’s introduction to each...

(Halevy), convertira (Ostervald), “to convert” (Luther, Pressel, et al.). This interpretation is determined by the rendering of ʿal in connection with the LXX prós and the Vulgate ad in the sense of ʾel, “to” (cf. Jer. 11:10; Prov. 26:11; Job 34:15; Eccl. 12:7; 2 Chr. 30:9). According to this translation Elijah will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the children’s hearts to their fathers. There are differences of opinion concerning what this really means, however. Many interpreters
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