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“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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Verse 6. Father. God sometimes took this title. Exodus 4:31. But he was oftener represented as a master; and the old law was a law of fear. Calmet.—Servant et mertuunt jus. Juv. xiv.
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