From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
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
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of the fathers; and therefore this word is used as...