“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
The priests cannot evade their guilt by blaming the people's coldness. They were appointed to teach the right way; when they dissembled, their silence was consent, and they robbed God's people of His fear, letting spurious sacrifices corrupt the whole worship. The command falls on them first.
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Commenting on Malachi 2:1-17
If priests had taught the people sound doctrine, the people would have brought better offerings. The blame for corrupted sacrifice traces back to corrupted teaching. Ministers of God's Word are under God's government and answerable to Him for what they teach and what they permit.
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Commenting on Malachi 2:1-9
God made them contemptible and base before all nations when their city fell and they were scattered in captivity. They failed to keep His ways, neither the moral and ceremonial law nor the Gospel ordinances; worse, they were partial in the law itself, attending to lesser matters while ignoring weightier ones, and showing favoritism in judgment by pronouncing sentence according to men's persons rather than God's truth.
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