and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
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
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base,.... When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places where they came: before all the people; the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered: according as ye have not kept my ways; neither those which the...