BƲrn as an oven] He prophecieth of Gods judgements against the wicked, who would not receive Christ, when as God should send him for the restauration of his Church: whereof he had spoken, Chap. 3. 2, 3. and which fell out in the last destruction of Jerusalem. Others expound it of the miseries, which the Jews suffered after the dayes of Malachi under the Grecian Kings of Syria and Egypt, untill the coming of Christ. neither root nor branch] Proverbiall termes: as Job 18:16. &Job 29:19. Isaiah 5:24. Amos 2:9.