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You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
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A Just and Direct Curse
Commentators agree that the curse of poverty and want was not random suffering but a direct and just consequence of the nation's sin. As John Calvin notes, God was essentially telling the people they couldn't complain about the effect (the curse) when they were the cause (robbing God of tithes and offerings). The affliction was a deserved retribution.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have been cursed with the curse - (not “with a curse”). The curse threatened had come upon them; but, as presupposed in Leviticus by the…
19th Century
Anglican
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 3:18).
Baptist
They could not understand why they were so poor, and why they could not prosper; the real reason was that a curse was resting upon all that they di…
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16th Century
Protestant
Malachi pursues the same subject, for he answers the Jews in God's name: they unjustly complained of His severity as being excessive, since they th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You [are] cursed with a curse Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering o…
The men of that generation turned away from God. They had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, How shall we …
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