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Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Hosts.
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No One is Exempt from Judgment
Scholars explain that the phrase “him that waketh and him that answereth” (or “master and scholar”) is a figure of speech for everyone. God's judgment on covenant-breaking sin applies to all, from the leaders who instigate it to the common people who follow along. Social status or religious position offers no protection from accountability.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar - literally, “The Lord cut off from the man that does this, watche…
19th Century
Anglican
The man. —Better, to the man.
The master and the scholar. —This is the Talmudic interpretation of…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here teaches us, that neither the priests nor the people would go unpunished, because they had mingled with the pollutions of the heath…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord will cut off the man that does this That is guilty of such treachery, wickedness, and idolatry: or "to the …
Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God will not be true to his fellow human beings. In contempt of t…
