Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.
CHAPTER 2 Malachi 2:1, 2 1. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 1. Et nunc ad vos praeceptum hoc, O sacerdotes, — 2. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your...
Commenting on Malachi 2:1-17
What was said in the foregoing chapter was directed to the priests (Mal 1:6): Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! that despise my name. But the crimes there charged upon them they were guilty of as sacrificers, and for those they might think it some excuse that they offered what the people brought, and therefore that, if they were not so...
Commenting on Malachi 2:1-9
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you,.... See Gill on Mal 2:1, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts; not that the ceremonial law might be confirmed and established, on which the Levitical priesthood was founded; for it was the will of God that that should be abolished, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of...