Malachi 2:10,Acts 17:28

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

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:10

Verse 10 The Prophet accuses the Jews here of another crime — that they were perfidious towards God and their own brethren, and departed from that pre-eminence into which God had raised them, when they were chosen in preference to other nations to be a holy and peculiar people. This ingratitude the Prophet now condemns by saying, that they all had one father, and that they had been all created by one God The word Father may be applied to God as well as to Abraham, and some interpreters will... 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

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:10

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

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