7For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, …
And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)What was said in the foregoing chapter was directed to the priests (Mal. 1:6): Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! that despise my name . But the crimes there charged upon them they were guilty of as sacrificers, and for those they might think it some excuse that they offered what the people brought, and therefore that, if they were not so good as they should be, it was not their fault…
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