Malachia 2:9

9 E io pure vi rendo spregevoli e abietti agli occhi di tutto il popolo, perché non osservate le mie vie, e avete de’ riguardi personali quando applicate la legge.

Malachia 2:9 Meaning and Commentary

Malachi 2:9

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base
When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places where they came: before all the people;
the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered: according as ye have not kept my ways;
neither those which the law directed to, either moral or ceremonial; nor what the Gospel directed to, the ordinances and institutions of Christ, particularly baptism, which the Jews rejected against themselves, ( Luke 7:30 ) : but have been partial in the law;
in the observance of it, attending to the lesser, and taking no notice of the weightier matters of it, as the Jews are charged by Christ, ( Matthew 23:23 ) and in the interpretation of it, restraining its sense only to outward actions, for which they are reproved, ( Matthew 5:1-48 ) or "received faces", or "accepted persons in the law" ^F24; in matters of the law they were concerned in, they had respect to the persons of men, by giving the sense of it, and pronouncing judgment, in favour of some, to the prejudice of others, wrongly.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (hrwtb Mynp Myavwnw) "et accepistis faciem in lege", Pagninus; "assumentes facies", Montanus; "suscipitis faciem", Piscator; "accipitis faciem", Cocceius; "et ferentes faciem in lege", Burkius.

Malachia 2:9 In-Context

7 Poiché le labbra del sacerdote son le guardiane della scienza, e dalla sua bocca uno cerca la legge, perch’egli è il messaggero dell’Eterno degli eserciti.

8 Ma voi vi siete sviati, avete fatto intoppar molti nella legge, avete violato il patto di Levi, dice l’Eterno degli eserciti.

9 E io pure vi rendo spregevoli e abietti agli occhi di tutto il popolo, perché non osservate le mie vie, e avete de’ riguardi personali quando applicate la legge.

10 Non abbiam noi tutti uno stesso padre? Non ci ha creati uno stesso Dio? Perché dunque siamo perfidi l’uno verso l’altro profanando il patto dei nostri padri?

11 Giuda agisce perfidamente, e l’abominazione si commette in Israele e in Gerusalemme; perché Giuda profana ciò ch’è santo all’Eterno, ciò ch’Egli ama, e sposa figliuole di dèi stranieri.