Malachi 2:10

Malachi 2:10. Have we not all one Father? &c.— Here a new section begins, wherein the prophet severely reproves the people for marrying strange wives, which was much practised in Ezra's and Nehemiah's time, who expressed great detestation of it. Ezra 9:1-2.Nehemiah 13:23; Nehemiah 13:23. The prophet begins his expostulation with putting them in mind that they owned one God and Father, in opposition to the idols of the heathen, and therefore should dwell with one another as brethren, being nearly allied by spiritual, as well as fleshly relation. See Mal 2:14 and Lowth.