The (a) burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. The Argument - This Prophet was one of the three who God raised up for the comfort of the Church after the captivity, and after him there was no one else until John the Baptist was sent, which was either a token of God's wrath, or an admon... [ Continue Reading ]
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, (b) Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, (b) Which declares their great ingratitude that did not acknowledge this love, which was so evident, in that he chose Abraham from out of all the world, a... [ Continue Reading ]
And I (c) hated Esau, (1) and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. (c) For besides this the signs of my hatred appeared even when he was made servant to his younger brother, being yet in his mother's belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birth... [ Continue Reading ]
A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, (d) O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, (e) Wherein have we despised thy name? (d) Besides the rest of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye offer (f) polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] (g) contemptible. (f) You receive all types of offerings for your own greediness, and do not examine whether they are according to my Law or not. (g) Not that they sa... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] (h) not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. (h) You make it no fault: and by this he condemns them that think it suffi... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, I pray you, (i) beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard (k) your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. (i) He derides the priests who deceived the people in saying that they prayed for them, and shows that they were the occasion that these evi... [ Continue Reading ]
Who [is there] even among you (l) that would shut the doors [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. (l) Because the Levites who kept the doors did not test whether the sac... [ Continue Reading ]
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] (m) great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. (m) God shows that their ing... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, (n) The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible. (n) Both the priests and the people were infected with this error, that they did not regard what was offered: for they thought that God was as well content wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye said also, Behold, what a (o) weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. (o) The priests and people were both weary with s... [ Continue Reading ]
But cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock (p) a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is] dreadful among the heathen. (p) That is, has ability to serve the Lord according to his word, and yet will... [ Continue Reading ]