Malachi 1:6-8

These are very strong expressions of expostulation. God appeals to the common principles and laws of nature. Children and servants do reverence to them that have the rule over them. How much more is due to the Lord, as the common Father of his people. Reader! how heightened is this principle to believers, who are adopted in and through Christ, into the family and household of faith, and are permitted, yea, commanded to cry, Abba, Father! Galatians 4:6 . Holy aggravated the sin to the priests of God; and all believers in Christ are made kings and priests to God and the Father. Revelation 1:6 . I humbly conceive, that there is an eye in this expostulation to the Pharisaical pride and self-righteousness of men, which in after ages manifested itself in opposition to the righteousness of Christ. Everything offered without an eye to Christ is polluted. It is, in the language of the Prophet, a lame and blind sacrifice. And as under the law, whatever was blemished was rejected, so in the Gospel, all offerings but the one perfect offering of the Lord Jesus Christ is blemished and rejected.