![]() Then, in regard to John's words, of course as they stand they are simply the parting benediction with which he takes leave of his readers but it is fitting that the Book of which they are the close should seal up the canon, because it stands as the one prophetic book of the New Testament, and so reaches forward into the coming ages, even to the consummation of all things. ![]() They gather up the whole burden of the Law and of the prophets of the former in their declaration of a coming retribution, of the latter in the hope that that retribution may be averted. In the Hebrew Bible Malachi's prophecies do not stand at the end but he was the last of the Old Testament prophets, and after him there were 'four centuries of silence.' We seem to hear in his words the dying echoes of the rolling thunders of Sinai. It is of course only an accident that these words close the Old and the New Testaments. 'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 'Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.' - MALACHI iv.6.
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