Matthew Poole Commentary - Malachi 2:5 - 2:5

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Malachi 2:5 - 2:5


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Here is one covenant that is more particular than any, a covenant of priesthood between God and a particular tribe.



With him: Levi is named Mal_2:4, and I will rest there, though I know some would have it be Aaron, or Phinehas.



Of life and peace; of long life, and prosperous, by covenant under the provisoes therein contained, assured to the Levites in their due ministrations before God.



I gave them, both lives, (the word is dual,) or life and prosperity.



For the fear wherewith he feared me; religious fear, or that gracious qualification which appeared in the acts of it, for he feared before God.



And was afraid before my name; behaved himself with reverence and trembling before God. It is the same repeated for confirmation of the former, or perhaps it may imply the habitual name of reverence from a contrite heart, which is here pointed at, and commended in this person under the name of Levi.