Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
Against their blasphemous murmuring that God has deceived or forsaken them, I assert that His covenant shall not fail. Though men are perfidious, God remains true to His own nature and cannot depart from it; He triumphs gloriously over their slanders by accomplishing His promises in their due time.
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Commenting on Malachi 3:1-18
These are wicked servants who not only run away from their Master but run away with His goods. They grew weary of His ordinances and withdrew their necks from that yoke; yet He calls them back with an invitation steeped in grace: return to Me, and I will return to you and be reconciled.
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Commenting on Malachi 3:7-12
Will a man rob God?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" (c), as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see Mal 1:8.