Part II. CONDEMNATION OF PRIESTS AND PEOPLE FOR ALIEN MARRIAGES AND FOR DIVORCES.
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Malachi 2:10-16
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:1-17EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Malachi 2:10-17Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Jews put away the wives they…Matthew HenrycommentaryUnlawful Marriages; Breach of the Marriage-covenant; Charge of Corrupt Principles. (b. c. 400.)UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES; BREACH OF THE MARRIAGE-COVENANT; CHARGE OF CORRUPT PRINCIPLES. (B. C. 400.) Corrupt practices are the genuine fruit and product of corrupt principles; and the badness of men's hearts and lives is owi…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:10-16The 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 INFIDELI…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:10Have 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:10-12One 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 Malac…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:10Unfaithfulness 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 rega…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Malachi 2:10The 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 creat…Joseph S. Exell and contributors