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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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:16

He hateth putting away. This is another reason against divorce: God hates it. It is contrary to his original institution, and was only allowed for the hardness of men's hearts (see Deuteronomy 24:1 , etc.; Matthew 19:3-9 ). Septuagint, "If thou hate her and dismiss her," etc.; Vulgate, "If thou hate her, put her away," which seems to encourage divorce, whereas in the context divorce is strongly condemned. Hence Jerome considers these words to be spoken by the Jews, quoting in their... 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:16

He hateth putting away - o He had allowed it “for the hardness of their hearts,” yet only in the one case of some extreme bodily foulness discovered upon marriage, and which the woman, knowing the law, concealed at her own peril. Not subsequent illness or any consequences of it, however loathsome (as leprosy), were a ground of divorce, but only this concealed foulness, which the husband “found” upon marriage. The capricious tyrannical divorce, God saith, “He hateth:” a word Naturally used only... 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:16

Malachi 2:16. For the Lord God of Israel saith that he hateth putting away He allowed the Jews liberty of divorce only for the hardness of their hearts, Matthew 19:8, not that it was a thing pleasing to him. For one covereth violence with his garment Or, And when one puts violence upon his garment, or covers his garment with violence, as Dr. Pocock translates it, who hath given the clearest sense of this phrase, and showed, out of several eastern writers, that they usually call a... 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 2:15

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:16

For, &c. = For [as] hating putting away, hath Jehovah, Israel's God, spoken; and [as hating him that] hath carried violence concealed in his clothing, hath Jehovah Sabaioth spoken, therefore, &c. God = Heh. Elohim . App-4 . saith = hath said. that He hateth, &c. = I hate. putting away = divorce. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 24:1 ). with his garment. Compare Pas. Mal 73:6 ; Psalms 109:18 , Psalms 109:29 Proverbs 28:13 , Isaiah 30:1 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:16

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:16

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:16

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

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

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:16

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