瑪拉基書 1:7-8 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:7

Polluted bread; or, priestly sins. What was consumed upon the altar was regarded as God's portion, and may, in a figure, be called "the bread of God." "The offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy" (Le 21:6). By "polluted bread" we are to understand maimed and blemished sacrifices. The Divine reproach is that the priests show how little value they have for the worship of God, since they do not care in how slight and contemptuous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:7-8

Irreverence-its causes and signs. Notice how in many places Malachi puts the thoughts of sinners into bold and bald words. He interprets their conduct in speech, that they may see the offensiveness of their thoughts and acts. Sins of the heart may sometimes be best exposed by translating them into unsubmissive or even impious prayers. They cannot endure the light when they are paraded in speech under the scrutiny of our fellow men. Still less can they tolerate the brightness that proceeds... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:8

If ye offer the blind. The Law ordered that the victims should be perfect and without blemish (see Le 22:19-25). Is it not evil! It is more forcible to read this without the interrogation, "It is no evil!" and to regard it as the priests' thought or word, here introduced by the prophet in bitter irony. Their conscience had grown so dull, and they had become so familiarized with constant dereliction of duty, that they saw no wrong in these violations of the Law, and never recalled the people... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:8

The law of acceptable sacrifice. It must be such as would be acceptable if offered to any earthly official. This, indeed, is but taking low ground, but that the prophet should take this position, and use this argument, is in itself a revelation of the sad condition into which the priesthood of the day had fallen. He could not take high grounds, and make his appeal directly to the holiness of the claims of the infinitely Holy One. "It argues a great contempt of Almighty God when men are... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 1:7

Offering polluted bread upon Mine altar - This, continuing on the words, “despisers of My Name,” , is the answer to their question, “Wherein have we despised Thy Name?” “Bread” might stand, in itself, either for the showbread, or for the מנחה minchāh, meal-offering, which was the necessary accompaniment of sacrifices and sometimes the whole.But here the “polluted bread” cannot be the showbread, since this was not put upon the altar, but upon its own table; and although the altar is, as here,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 1:8

And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? - Others, “it is not evil,” as we should say, “there is no harm in it.” Both imply, alike, an utter unconsciousness on the part of the offerer, that it was evil: the one, in irony, that this was always their answer, “there is nothing amiss;” the other is an indignant question, “is there indeed nought amiss?” And this seems the most natural.The sacrifice of the “blind” and “lame” was expressly forbidden in the law Deuteronomy 15:21, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 1:7-8

Malachi 1:7-8. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar By this seems to be meant, the bread-offering, or the cake of fine flour, which was to be offered with the continual sacrifice in the morning and evening of every day. By being polluted is to be understood, that it was not such as the law required. They diminished something, either in the quality or quantity of what the law commanded them to offer; either the bread was not made of good flour, or mixed with the required quantity of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:6-14

1:6-3:18 SINS OF THE PEOPLEDisgraceful sacrifices (1:6-14)Israel, as God’s people, should honour him as their father and reverence him as their master. Instead they insult him. They offer to God animals that are lame, sick and blind. They would never think of offering such animals to the governor, yet they offer them to God and expect him to be pleased with them (6-9). They would do better to close the temple doors and have no sacrifices at all than to offer worship like that. Even Gentiles... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 1:7

Ye offer, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 15:21 ). offer = bring nigh. Hebrew. nagash . App-43 . is = it [is]. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 1:8

if ye offer the blind, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 22:22 .Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 15:21 ). App-92 . and sick, is it not = and sick [saying], it is not evil. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 1:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 1:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 1:7-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:6-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 1:7

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 1:8

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