Malachi 2:2
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What does Malachi 2:2 mean?
If ye will not hear
The commandment enjoined them; or the Gospel preached to them by
Christ, and his apostles:
and if ye will not lay [it] to heart to give glory to my
name,
saith the Lord of hosts;
which they had despised and profaned before; if they did not take
care of his worship and service, and honour the Messiah sent unto
them, in whom the name of the Lord was:
I will even send a curse upon you;
both upon priests and people; those that bring the bad offerings,
and those that receive them, as Kimchi; though Abarbinel
restrains it to the priests:
and I will curse your blessings,
either with which the priests blessed the people; or with which
both they and the people were blessed; namely, their temporal
blessings, such as their corn, and wine, and oil: and what wicked
men have of this world, they have it with a curse, and not a
blessing, as the righteous have; and therefore a little which
they have, is better than much enjoyed by the wicked, ( Psalms 37:16
) :
yea, I have cursed them already;
that is, from the time they began to despise his name, and not
give him the glory due unto him, as Kimchi and Abarbinel explain
it:
because ye do not lay [it] to heart;
to glorify God.
