瑪拉基書 2:14-15 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:14-16

The Divine institution of marriage. "Yet ye say, Wherefore?" etc. The subject of these verses is the Divine institution of marriage. In relation to this institution we observe— I. THAT IT IMPLIES A LOVING UNION OF TWO , AND ONLY TWO , SOULS UNTIL DEATH . "Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one?" "Wife... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. The passage has always been a crux , and has received many interpretations. The Anglican rendering (which, however, is probably not correct) is thus explained: God made at first one man and one woman, to show the oneness of marriage, and God gave man the breath of life and the residue to the woman; he made them both equally living souls; therefore divorce was never contemplated in the first institution of marriage. Others take... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

God served by our meeting family obligations. This verse is difficult to paraphrase. 'Speaker's Commentary' renders thus: "And hath no one acted thus (in putting away his wife) who yet had a remnant of sense in him?" The prophet makes the people say this in excuse of their conduct, and in allusion to the Patriarch Abraham, who put away his wife Hagar. Wordsworth puts the sentence interrogatively, "And did not one (Abraham) do it ( i.e. put away his wife Hagar), and yet he had a remnant... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:14

And ye say, Wherefore? - They again act the innocent, or half-ignorant. What had they to do with their wives’ womanly tears? He who knows the hearts of all was Himself the witness between them and the wife of youth of each; her to whom, in the first freshness of life and their young hearts, each had plighted his troth having been entrusted by her with her earthy all. Genesis 31:49-50. “The Lord,” said even Laban, when parting from his daughters, “watch between me and thee, when we are absent,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:15

And did not He - , God, of whom he had spoken as the witness between man and his wife, “make one,” namely, Adam first, to mark the oneness of marriage and make it a law of nature, appointing “that out of man (created in His own image and similitude), woman should take her beginning, and, knitting them together, did teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those, whom He by matrimony had made one?” “Between those two, and consequently between all other married, to be born from them,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:14-15

Malachi 2:14-15. Yet ye say, Wherefore Ye will, perhaps, still inquire wherefore God regards not your offerings; if so, the answer is ready, namely, because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth Because the Lord sees how you act toward your wives; that when you have enjoyed the flower of their youth, and they begin to grow old, you contemn them, and use them ill. Yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant Yet didst thou thyself make choice of her... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

Divorces and mixed marriages (2:10-16)Marriage disorders were a further cause of Israel’s troubles. Many Jewish men had married idolatrous heathen women, and introduced idolatrous practices into the holy worship of God (cf. Ezra 9:1-2; Nehemiah 13:23-27). Not only did these Jewish men marry idol worshippers, but they divorced their Jewish wives to do so. They despised both the marriage covenant and the covenant God made with Israel at Sinai. God designed the covenant to promote family and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:14

Wherefore? Supply the Ellipsis: "Wherefore [doth He not accept it]? " companion = consort, or mate. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:15

Modern critics pronounce this as being "a difficult and certainly corrupt passage"; but it is only elliptical. make one? = make [of twain] one flesh? Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 2:24 ). App-92 . Yet had He, &c. And therefore could have made more than one wife for Adam. spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . And wherefore one? And what [did] that one [Abraham] who [was] seeking a seed of (or from) God? Hebrew. zera ' (as in Genesis 21:12 ; see note there). The logical Ellipsis ' must be... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 2:14

"Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.""Yet ye say ..." See introduction for discussion of this arrogant rejection of the prophet's words recurring again and again throughout the prophecy. To every charge of evil, they had a stock reply "Where's the harm in it?"The harm in it derived, first of all, from the sacred nature of marriage... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:14-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:14-15

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:15

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 2:14

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