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 further supplied: "Was Abraham faithless to Sarah and did he ill-treat her when he took an additional wife? How mach more ought ye to be faithful to your wives? "

one. Refers to Abraham. See Isaiah 51:2 .Ezekiel 33:24 . Supply the verb "do", as in Ecclesiastes 2:12 , and as in Judges 18:8 , from Mal 2:18 .

take heed = be watchful over.

your = your own.