Malachi 4:2 (WEB)
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Fathers and councils · 22
Jerome
“If the present is a picture of the future, then the Sun of Righteousness will rise upon sinners as well as upon the righteous, upon the wicked and the holy, upon the heathen as well as upon Jews and Christians, though the Scripture says, “Unto you that fear the Lord shall the Sun of Righteousness arise.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“In the West the Sun of righteousness is even now rising; in the East, Lucifer, who fell from heaven, has once more set his throne above the stars.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“She is the east gate, spoken of by the prophet Ezekiel, always shut and always shining, and either concealing or revealing the Holy of Holies; and through her “the Sun of Righteousness,” our “high priest after the order of Melchizedek,” goes in and out.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“…with eagerness she hastened to the Jordan, stood by the brink of the river, and as the sun rose recalled to mind the rising of the sun of righteousness; how the priest’s feet stood firm in the middle of the river-bed; how afterwards at the command of Elijah and Elisha the waters were divided hither and thither…” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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John Damascene
“The soul when it was deified descended into Hades, in order that, just as the Sun of Righteousness rose for those upon the earth, so likewise He might bring light to those who sit under the earth in darkness and shadow of death: in order that just as He…” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“Since, therefore, God is spiritual light, and Christ is called in the Scriptures Sun of Righteousness and Dayspring, the East is the direction that must be assigned to His worship.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“By the sun we may understand not this visible, but that of which it is said, “To you that fear the name of the Lord, the Sun of righteousness shall arise;” [Mal 4:2] and by the rain, the water of the doctrine of truth; for Christ was seen, and was preached to good as well as bad.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The Sun was darkened, because of the Sun of Righteousness.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Yet has He given a share of His own name to His servants and as He is Light, calls His saints light, for “Ye,” He says, “are the Light of the world,” and being named servants and being named “Sun of Righteousness” He says of his servants “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun.”” — editor's note: Malachi iv. 2
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Augustine of Hippo
“…because she has no light of her own, but is lighted by the only-begotten Son of God, who in many places of holy Scripture is allegorically called the Sun.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2, etc.
Read the whole comment“…and “riseth upon the good and the evil,” but That whereof is said, To you that hear God, “the Sun of Righteousness shall rise, and healing in His wings;” and of whom the proud and wicked shall hereafter say, “The light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“…it is also said, “The Sun of righteousness has arisen upon me;” and again, “But unto you that fear the name of the Lord shall the Sun of righteousness arise:” so that you would also understand the rain as being the watering with the doctrine of truth, because Christ hath appeared to the good and the evil, and is…” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“Let then your wrath at length pass away also, now that we are celebrating the days of the great Sun, of that Sun of which Scripture saith, “Unto you shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Again, ‘the Sun of Righteousness, causing His divine beams to rise upon us, proclaims beforehand the time of the feast, in which, obeying Him, we ought to celebrate it, lest when the time has passed by, gladness likewise may pass us by.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“…in no longer receiving the type and the shadow, but as having been gloriously illumined with the light of truth, and as looking upon the Sun of Righteousness; to the schismatics, in not rending the coat of Christ, but in one house, even in the Catholic Church, let us eat the Passover of the Lord, Who, by ordaining…” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Basil the Great
“…it shines like a brilliant eye in the middle of creation; if finally, one cannot tire of contemplating it, what will be the beauty of the Sun of Righteousness?” — editor's note: cf. Mal. iv. 2.
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John Chrysostom
“Leap ye as calves set free from bonds.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2. The present reading of the LXX. is σκιρτσετε, “ye shall leap.” [So the Hebrew; comp. R.V.—R.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also the prophet Malachi testifies that He is called the Sun, when he says, “But to you that fear the name of the Lord shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and there is healing in His wings.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Tertullian
““Ye shall go forth,” (says Malachi), “from your sepulchres, as young calves let loose from their bonds, and ye shall tread down your enemies.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2, 3.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And of a year old, because He is the Sun of Righteousness setting out from heaven, and circumscribed by His visible Nature, and returning unto Himself.” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.10Book VIII
“And of this sun God clearly makes mention by the prophet, when He says, “But to those that fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For by the mouth of Malachi also He speaks thus: “And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings.”” — editor's note: Mal. iv. 2.
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.29.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.29.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.29.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.29.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.29.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 31.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 31.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.10.