My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.
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
My covenant was with him of life and peace,.... Not with Aaron, nor with Phinehas; nor is it to be understood of a covenant, promising temporal life and outward prosperity to either of them; Aaron living a hundred and twenty three years, Num 33:39 and Phinehas, according to some Jewish writers, above three hundred years, which they gather from Jdg 20:28 but of the covenant...