Are the Ten Commandments included in Mal. 4:4? If so, why is it called the law of Moses?
The law of Moses included all the laws which God had given. It took in the civil regulations of Israel for that time, laws concerning sacrifices and offerings, laws regulating conduct between man and man, health laws, ceremonial laws, moral laws; all were included in the law of Moses. But the special thought of Mal. 4:4 is not to remember the Ten-Commandment law alone. The Ten-Commandment law comes in under the statutes and judgments, “Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb.” That is all the commandments that God gave thru Moses, with the statutes and judgments, which would include all the precepts, the Ten Commandments with the others. He would not only call our attention to the great laws which should be the rule of conduct, but He would also have us remember those laws in which the offerings, the sacrifices, and types were revealed, as in the laws given thru Moses, in order that the substance of the new dispensation may be traced from the shadows of the old. And in the last days He would call His people’s attention to His law, especially set forth in Exodus 20 to 40 and also in Leviticus.