瑪拉基書 2:9-10 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:9

Contemptible . The glory of the priesthood and the honour that belonged to it (Ecclesiasticus 45:7, etc.) were now turned into disgrace and contempt, when men compared the actual with the ideal. "Them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed" ( 1 Samuel 2:30 ). Have been partial in the law; Revised Version, have had respect of persons in the law; or, in your teaching, as Malachi 2:6 , Malachi 2:8 . The prophet names one special sin of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? In proceeding to his new subject, the violations of the law of marriage, the prophet pursues his habitual method. He starts with a general principle, here assuming an interrogative form, and on it builds his rebuke. The priests were guilty, if not of profane marriages, at any rate of sinful neglect in not warning the people against them. Many take the "one father" to be Abraham ( Isaiah 51:2 ), and it is no objection to this view that he was also the progenitor... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

The brotherhood of men. "Liberty, equality, fraternity," are Divine ideas, though men have sometimes striven to embody them in crude or even repulsive and brutal forms. Men are equals, inasmuch as they are all the creatures of the one God who created them. The revelation of that Creator as "the Father of spirits" constitutes those created spirits into a brotherhood. From this fraternal relation the claim to liberty and more than liberty follows. I. SOUND ETHICS MUST BE BASED ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

Unfaithfulness to God involves injury to our brethren. This verse begins a new subject, and it might have headed a new chapter. Answering to the indifference shown in regard to Divine worship was an indifference in regard to moral and family relations. Loose worship and loose social morality usually go together. Let men become careless about God's claims, and they will be found careless about marriage relations, and will lightly do wrong by the wives of their youth, in the mastery of their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-12

One Father. "Have we not all one Father," etc..? "This section," says Keil, "does not stand in any close connection with the preceding one. It does not furnish an example of the stumbling upon the Law mentioned in Malachi 2:8 ; nor of the violation of the covenant of the fathers ( Malachi 2:10 ); or of the marriage covenant ( Malachi 2:14 ), appended to the neutralizing of the covenant of Levi on the part of the priests ( Malachi 2:8 and Malachi 2:4 ). For there is no indication... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

Part II . CONDEMNATION OF PRIESTS AND PEOPLE FOR ALIEN MARRIAGES AND FOR DIVORCES . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

The sin of conjugal unfaithfulness. We here use the term "unfaithfulness" in its widest sense, extending far beyond the sin of unchastity. We note— I. UNFAITHFULNESS TO GOD IS THE ROOT SIN OF ALL OTHER FORMS OF INFIDELITY . The sins denounced in the earlier verses of this book are quite sufficient to account for the criminality here exposed. Those who profane the "covenant" and the "holiness" of God in their hearts, and who do not seek "to give glory" to his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:9

Therefore have I made you contemptible - They had said in their hearts Malachi 1:7, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.” So God would requite them “measure for measure.” Yet not only so, but in their office as judges, against the repeated protestations in the law Leviticus 19:15, “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor Deuteronomy 1:17, ye shall not respect persons in judgment Deuteronomy 16:19, thou... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? - oHath not one God created us? - Malachi turns abruptly to another offence, in which also the priests set an evil example, the capricious dismissal of their Hebrew wives and taking other women in their stead. Here, as before, he lays down, at the outset, a general moral principle, which he applies. “The one Father” (it appears from the parallel), is manifestly Almighty God, as the Jews said to our Lord John 8:41, “We have one Father, even God.” He created them, not... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:7-9

Malachi 2:7-9. For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge Preserve and store up, so as to distribute it. It is his duty to understand the meaning of the law of God: and people ought to resort to him for instruction in any difficulty that arises concerning the sense of it. For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts He is appointed to declare God’s will unto the people, and to enforce upon them obedience to it. But ye are departed out of the way Ye act in a quite different manner from... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:7-9

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