Malachia 2:9

La Riveduta Bibbia

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.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
"Perci anchio vi ho reso spregevoli e abietti davanti a tutto il popolo, perch non avete osservato le mie vie, e avete usato parzialit nellapplicazione della legge".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Laonde altres� vi ho resi vili, ed abbietti appo tutto il popolo; siccome voi non osservate le mie vie, ed avete riguardo alla qualit� delle persone spiegando la Legge.

Bible Verse Review
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made: Malachi 2:3, 1 Samuel 2:30, Proverbs 10:7, Daniel 12:2, Daniel 12:3, Micah 3:6, Micah 3:7

before: 1 Kings 22:28, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 29:20-22, Jeremiah 29:31, Jeremiah 29:32, Ezekiel 13:12-16, Ezekiel 13:21, Mark 7:13, Mark 7:14, Luke 20:45-47

but: Malachi 2:8, Matthew 5:21, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:27, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:43, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 19:17, Matthew 19:18, Matthew 23:16-24, Mark 7:8-13, Luke 10:29, Luke 11:42, Romans 7:7-10

have been partial in: or, lifted up the face against, Heb. accepted faces. Deuteronomy 1:17, *marg. Galatians 2:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:11 - According to 2 Kings 5:27 - leprosy 2 Kings 23:9 - the priests Ezra 10:18 - the sons Job 13:8 - General Proverbs 6:35 - regard Proverbs 12:8 - he Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Lamentations 2:6 - the king Ezekiel 44:12 - they ministered Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Hosea 4:7 - therefore Nahum 3:6 - make Malachi 1:6 - if then Matthew 5:19 - shall teach Matthew 22:16 - neither Luke 15:15 - to feed 1 Timothy 5:21 - partiality James 2:4 - partial James 3:17 - without

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 or "received faces", or "accepted persons in the law" x; 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.

x ונושאים פנים בתורה "et accepistis faciem in lege", Pagninus; "assumentes facies", Montanus; "suscipitis faciem", Piscator; "accipitis faciem", Cocceius; "et ferentes faciem in lege", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore have I made you contemptible - They had said in their hearts Malachi 1:7, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.” So God would requite them “measure for measure.” Yet not only so, but in their office as judges, against the repeated protestations in the law Leviticus 19:15, “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor Deuteronomy 1:17, ye shall not respect persons in judgment Deuteronomy 16:19, thou shall not wrest judgment,” he says,

Ye have accepted persons in the law - You have interpreted the law differently for rich and poor, or have put it in force against the poor, not against the rich. It would include actual bribery; but there are many more direct offences against equal justice. How differently is the like offence against the eighth commandment visited upon the poor who have real temptation to it, and the rich who have none, but the lust of the eyes!

Crows he condones, vexes the simple dove - That contempt which they cast upon God and His law, by wresting it out of respect to persons, that so they might gain favor and respect from them, so honoring them more than Him, and seeking to please them more than Him, will He cast back on them making them contemptible even in the eyes of those, from whom they thought by that means to find respect.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 2:9. Therefore have I also made you contemptible — The people despised you because they saw that you acted contrary to your functions. This has happened repeatedly since, to several classes of priests. Not maintaining, by purity of life and soundness of doctrine, the dignity of the ministerial function, they became contemptible before the people; their meager preaching was disregarded, and their persons at last cast out as a general loathing to the universe! See what happened to the truly abominable priesthood of France and Rome 1796-8. They were the sole cause of that infidelity that brought about the revolution. They are now partially restored; and are endeavouring to supply by grimace, paltry superstition, and jesuitical cunning, what they want in purity of morals, soundness of doctrine, and unction from God. They must mend, or look for another revolution. Mankind will no longer put up with the chaff of puerile and fanatical ceremonies in place of the wheat of God's word and worship.