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Malachi
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“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. See also: Malachi 1:6Jeremiah 13:13Hosea 5:1If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says the LORD of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. See also: Revelation 14:7Luke 17:18Psalms 69:22Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. See also: Nahum 3:6Malachi 2:91 Kings 14:10You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Numbers 3:12Ezekiel 38:23Matthew 3:12“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. See also: Ezekiel 37:26Numbers 25:12-13Ezekiel 34:25The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. See also: Daniel 12:32 Timothy 2:15-16Revelation 14:5For 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 Armies. See also: 2 Timothy 2:24-25Leviticus 10:11Deuteronomy 21:5But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Nehemiah 13:29Jeremiah 18:15Jeremiah 17:5“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law. See also: 1 Samuel 2:30Deuteronomy 1:17Luke 11:42Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? See also: Psalms 100:3Malachi 2:111 Corinthians 8:6Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. See also: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18Ezra 9:1-2Revelation 21:8The LORD will cut off the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob and him who offers an offering to the LORD of Armies. See also: 2 Timothy 3:13Matthew 15:14Ezra 10:18-19“This again you do: you cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. See also: Isaiah 1:11-15Jeremiah 14:12Psalms 78:34-37Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. See also: Malachi 2:15Ecclesiastes 9:9Isaiah 54:6Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. See also: Matthew 19:4-6Malachi 2:14Mark 10:6-8One who hates and divorces”, says the LORD, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says the LORD of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful. See also: Matthew 19:3-9Matthew 5:31-32Mark 10:2-12You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’ See also: Isaiah 43:242 Peter 3:3-4Zephaniah 1:12
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Malachi 2:1
Ver. 1. Priests. Such, hoarding up riches, dishonour God and his sacraments, as if they were temporal things to be purchased, and so they scandalize the weak. It would be well for them if they were reduced to poverty, (v. 2.) and would repent, as they will otherwise be deprived of eternal goods, having received their wages in this world, like hirelings. John x. W.
↑ 1Malachi 2:2
Ver. 2. Blessings, riches. The priests also blessed the people. Num. vi. 23. C.
↑ 2Malachi 2:3
Ver. 3. Shoulder. I will cast away the shoulder, which in the law was appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you in my anger: and will reject both you and your festivals like dung. Ch.
--- Heb. now reads for shoulder, zerah, "grain," or seed. C. --- "I will menace you with the shoulder, and will spread dirt on your faces, even the dirt of your feasts," (Aquila) or "the ventricle of your festivals." Sept. H.
↑ 3Malachi 2:4
Ver. 4. Levi. When this tribe was chosen does not appear. Some think that he alludes to the renewing of the covenant under Nehemias, which seems best. 2
Esd. ix. 1. 38. I then promised you life, &c. C.
↑ 4Malachi 2:7
Ver. 7. The angel, viz. the minister and messenger. Ch. --- Priests must administer the sacraments, and likewise instruct the people, being God's messengers. W. --- The Jews were well acquainted with the law. Jer. xviii. 18. ---
The priests had to decide most intricate cases. Deut.
xvii. 9. and xxxiii. 9. C. --- The sentence of the high priest was received like that of an angel.
Diod. Sic. xl. apud Phol. --- If such science was required under the old law, how much more is necessary in Christian priests, whose mysteries and duties are so much more important! C. ---
Ignoratio scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. S. Jer. in Is. & hic.
↑ 7Malachi 2:9
Ver. 9. People. If priests comply not with these high functions, they are despicable here, and condemned to eternal torments. Jude 11. W. --- Accepted.
Heb. "raised up faces," instead of reproving the guilty. Deut. i. 10. Lev. xix 15.
↑ 9Malachi 2:10
Ver. 10. Brother, in distress. 2 Esd. v. 1. S. Jerom mentions the tradition of the Jews, which supposed that the captives at their return dismissed their wives, and married young ones, though strangers. v. 11. But this is not probable.
Such women were ordered to be dismissed. 1 Esd. ix.
1. and 2 Esd. xiii. 23. C.
↑ 10Malachi 2:11
Ver. 11. God, or one addicted to idol-worship, (H.) which was contrary to the law. Deut. vii. 3.
C. --- Sept. "the holy things of the Lord, by what he has loved and done for strange gods." H.
↑ 11Malachi 2:12
Ver. 12. Master. Heb. "the watcher, and him who answers," on guard. C. ---
Sept. "doth such things, till he be tumbled out," &c. --- Him. Sept. "and out of those who offer a sacrifice to," &c.
Such people shall be excluded from the society of God's servants. H.
↑ 12Malachi 2:13
Ver. 13. With tears; viz. by occasion of your wives, whom you have put away, and who came to weep and lament before the altar. Ch. --- Though divorces were tolerated, (Mat. xix. 6.) the more virtuous did not approve of them, particularly when a wife is put away who had been married in youth. See v. 10.
Perhaps this corruption had crept in, like others, (C.) owing to the people's commerce with strangers. Diod. in Photius.
↑ 13Malachi 2:14
Ver. 14. Covenant. The order established at first. Gen. ii. 24. Prov. ii. 17. The parties promised fidelity to each other.
↑ 14Malachi 2:15
Ver. 15. His spirit. Eve received a soul from God, like Adam. Heb. "One ( Abraham, Chal.
styled one, Ezec. xxxiii. 24.) did it not, and he had the," &c. Sept. vary. The text is very obscure.
C. See Cap. Crit. iv. p. 317. Grabe prol. --- A strange god did not make women.
The human race is best propagated, where polygamy and divorces are rejected. H.
↑ 15Malachi 2:16
Ver. 16. Garment; viz. of every man that putteth away his wife without just cause; notwithstanding that God permitted it in the law, to prevent the evil of murder. Ch. --- The original may receive this sense; or the woman must blame herself if she were hateful, (Deut. xxiv.
1.) and the man acted not treacherously. C. --- Sept. "iniquity shall cover your thoughts." H. ---
It should be "garments," endumata, though S. Jerom and the printed edit. read enthumemata, (C.)
"thoughts." The first part contains the objection, and the second God's reply.
S. Jer. H.
↑ 16Malachi 2:17
Ver. 17. Judgment. Being scandalized at the prosperity of the wicked, (H.) they deny Providence. Ps. lxxii. Jer. xii. C. --- Yet the wicked are left for wise purposes, either for their amendment, or for the trial of the just. S. Aug. Ps. liv.
--- Those who are offended at their present success, (H.) think not of judgment nor of eternal goods. S. Jer.
↑ 17License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses