瑪拉基書 2:7-9 RCUVTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 2:1-9

What was said in the foregoing chapter was directed to the priests (Mal. 1:6): Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! that despise my name. But the crimes there charged upon them they were guilty of as sacrificers, and for those they might think it some excuse that they offered what the people brought, and therefore that, if they were not so good as they should be, it was not their fault, but the people?s; and therefore here the corruptions there complained of are traced to the source... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:7

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge ,.... Or "shall keep knowledge", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; or "do keep knowledge", as the Arabic version; and so the Syriac version, "for the lips of the priest drop knowledge"; all this is true of Christ our great High Priest; for as it was predicted of him, that his lips should keep knowledge, so they have kept it, and do keep it; not concealing it, but preserving it, and communicating it freely and openly; as he did to his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:8

But ye are departed out of the way ,.... Of truth and righteousness, of life and peace, of eternal salvation and happiness, pointed to by Christ and his forerunner, and by his apostles and ministers that followed him, and which was clearly showed in the preaching of the Gospel: this was the character of the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, in Christ's time, to which the prophet seems to have respect; who not only failed in their observance of legal sacrifices, complained of in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:9

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base ,.... When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places where they came: before all the people ; the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered: according as ye have not kept my ways ; neither those which the law directed to, either moral or ceremonial; nor what the Gospel directed to, the ordinances and institutions of Christ,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:8

But ye are departed out of the way - Ye are become impure yourselves, and ye have led others into iniquity. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:9

Therefore have I also made you contemptible - The people despised you because they saw that you acted contrary to your functions. This has happened repeatedly since, to several classes of priests. Not maintaining, by purity of life and soundness of doctrine, the dignity of the ministerial function, they became contemptible before the people; their meager preaching was disregarded, and their persons at last cast out as a general loathing to the universe! See what happened to the truly... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:7

Verse 7 What the Prophet has said of the first priests he extends now to the whole Levitical tribe, and shows that it was a perpetual and unchangeable law as to the priesthood. He had said that Levi had been set over the Church, not to apply to himself the honor due to God, but to stand in his own place as the minister of God, and the teacher of the chosen people. The same thing he now confirms, declaring it as a general truth that the lips of the priest ought to retain knowledge, as though he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:8

Verse 8 He shows here how far were the priests of his time from fulfilling that compact which he had mentioned. He hence concludes that they were unworthy of the honor of which they were so confidently proud, and under the shadow of which they sought to cover their vices, as though they were not bound to God, and were at liberty to tread the Church under foot with impunity. He then shows that it was an extremely foolish arrogance in them to seek to be exempt from all law, and yet to regard God... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:9

Verse 9 The Prophet draws this conclusion — that the priests in vain gloried in the honor of their office, for they had ceased to be the priests of God. We may now return to the main point. We perceive what the subject is which the Prophet handles here: as the priests sought by a peculiar privilege to exempt themselves from all reproof, he assails them in particular; for teaching would have been useless as to the common people, except the priests themselves were brought to order. The priests... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:4-9

The minister of Divine truth, "My covenant was with him of life and peace," etc. We have here the minister of Divine truth as he always should be, and as he often is— I. THE MINISTER OF DIVINE TRUTH AS HE ALWAYS SHOULD BE . We learn: 1 . That he should be a man divinely called. "Ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts." What was the Divine commission to the priesthood? Here it is:... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 2:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:4-9

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