Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:1 - 1:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:1 - 1:1

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1:1 - 1:1
1:2 - 1:2
1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14

Mal 1:1-14. God’s love: Israel’s ingratitude: the priests’ mercenary spirit: A gentile spiritual priesthood shall supersede them.

burden - heavy sentence.

to Israel - represented now by the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with individuals of the ten tribes who had returned with the Jews from Babylon. So “Israel” is used, Ezr 7:10. Compare 2Ch 21:2, “Jehoshaphat king of Israel,” where Judah, rather than the ten tribes, is regarded as the truest representative of Israel (compare 2Ch 12:6; 2Ch 28:19).

Malachi - see on Introduction. God sent no prophet after him till John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, in order to enflame His people with the more ardent desire for Him, the great antitype and fulfiller of prophecy.