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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 2:10-17

Corrupt practices are the genuine fruit and product of corrupt principles; and the badness of men's hearts and lives is owing to some loose atheistical notions which they have got and which they govern themselves by. Now, in these verses, we have an instance of this; we here find men dealing falsely with one another, and it is because they think falsely of their God. Observe, I. How corrupt their practices were. In general, they dealt treacherously every man against his brother, Mal. 2:10. It... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father ?.... Whether this is understood of Adam the first man, of whose blood all nations of the earth are made, and who in the same sense is the father of all living, as Eve was the mother of all living; or of Abraham the father of the Jewish people, of whom, as their father, they used to glory; or of Jacob, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra interpret it, whom the Jews used to call our father Jacob; or of God, who is the Father of all men by creation, and of the Jews by national... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:11

Judah hath dealt treacherously ,.... Not only every man against his brother, by being partial in the law; or against the women of their nation, by marrying others; or against their wives, by putting them away; but against Christ the Son of God by betraying and delivering him up into the hands of the Gentiles, to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified: and an abomination is committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem ; which was the taking of the true Messiah with wicked hands, condemning him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:12

The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this ,.... That is guilty of such treachery, wickedness, and idolatry: or "to the man that doeth this" F25 לאיש "viro", Drusius, Cocceius, Burkius, De Dieu; "filius et qui fecerit istud", Piscator. ; all that belong to him, his children and substance: it denotes the utter destruction, not of a single man and his family only, but of the whole Jewish nation and its polity, civil and ecclesiastical, as follows: the master and the scholar out... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:13

And this have ye done again ,.... Or "in the second" F2 שנית "secundo", Pagninus, Vatablus, Calvin, Cocceius, Burkius. place; to their rejection and ill treatment of Christ they added their hypocritical prayers and tears, as follows: covering the altar of the Lord with tears and weeping, and with crying out ; for the Messiah they vainly expect, pretending great humiliation for their sins: though some, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra, make the first evil to be their offering illegal... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:14

Yet ye say, Wherefore ?.... What is the meaning of the women covering the altar with tears? as if they knew not what was the reason of it, when they were so notoriously guilty of breach of covenant with them; which is an instance of their impudence, as Abarbinel observes: or, "if ye say, wherefore?" as the Targum and Kimchi interpret the words; should you say, what is the reason why the Lord will not regard nor receive our offerings? the answer is ready, Because the Lord hath been witness... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:15

And did not he make one ?.... That is, did not God make one man, and out of his rib one woman? did he not make man, male and female? did he not make one pair, one couple, only Adam and Eve, whom he joined together in marriage? or rather, did he not make one woman only, and brought her to Adam to be his wife? which shows that his intention and will were, that one man should have but one wife at a time; the contrary to which was the then present practice of the Jews: Yet had he the residue... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:16

For the Lord the God of Israel saith, that he hateth putting away ,.... The divorcing of wives; for though this was suffered because of the hardness of their hearts, it was not approved of by the Lord; nor was it from the beginning; and it was disagreeable, and even hateful to him, Matthew 19:8 in the margin of some Bibles the words are rendered, "if he hate her, put her away"; and so the Targum, "but if thou hatest her, put her away;' to which agree the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied the Lord with your words ,.... As well as with their actions; see Isaiah 43:24 this is said after the manner of men, they saying those things which were displeasing and provoking to him, and which he could not bear to hear; or otherwise weariness properly cannot be attributed to God: Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him ? as if they were clear and innocent; or, as the Targum, "if ye should say"; though they might not express themselves in words in such an impudent... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? - From this to Malachi 2:16 ; the prophet censures the marriages of Israelites with strange women, which the law had forbidden, Deuteronomy 7:3 . And also divorces, which seem to have been multiplied for the purpose of contracting these prohibited marriages. - Newcome. Why do we deal treacherously - Gain the affections of the daughter of a brother Jew, and then profane the covenant of marriage, held sacred among our fathers, by putting away this same wife... read more

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