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Yet you say, Why? Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
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Marriage: A Covenant Before God
Commentators unanimously emphasize that marriage is not just a human contract but a sacred covenant to which God is the primary witness. To be 'treacherous' against a spouse is to violate a vow made in God's presence. Scholars note that the terms 'companion' and 'wife of your covenant' describe a divinely intended partnership of shared life, making its violation a grave offense against God Himself.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And you say, Why? - They again act the innocent, or half-ignorant. What had they to do with their wives’ womanly tears? He who knows the hea…
19th Century
Anglican
Again, with supercilious surprise they ask, “Why?”
Witness. Compare Genesis 31:49-50: “The LORD watch between me an…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet tells us here, as before, how inclined the priests were to protest loudly. It is a very common thing for hypocrites to immediately rais…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet you say, Wherefore ? &c.] What is the meaning of the women covering the altar with tears? as if they knew not wh…
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…
