Malachi 3:7

Malachi 3:7 to Malachi 4:3. Renewed Rebukes, Threatenings and Promises

Ch. Malachi 3:7-12. Rebuke in the matter of Tithes and Offerings

7. Even from the days of your fathers Omit even, with R.V. The connection with Malachi 3:6 is well given by Pusey: "Back to those days and from them, ye are gone away from My ordinances. -I am not changed from good; ye are not changed from evil. I am unchangeable in holiness; ye are unchangeable in perversity." "

gone away Rather, turned aside, R.V., as the same word is translated elsewhere, e.g. Deuteronomy 17:20; Deuteronomy 28:14; Joshua 23:6; and with the metaphor completed, turned aside from the way, Exodus 32:8; Deuteronomy 9:12.

Return unto me Comp. Zechariah 1:3, where the word (turn, A.V.) is the same.