When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says the LORD of Armies.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Lame. The victims must be without defect. Leviticus 22:21. Those of the Jews were also rendered inadmissible by their evil dispositions. Agg. 2:14. It is surprising, that after such scourges they should not have been more upon their guard. The negligence of the sacred ministers, is a sure sign of faith being extinct. Calmet.—Pagans often thus treated thier idols. Clem. Strom. vi.—Prince: the governor sent by the Persians. If you dare not make such presents to men of eminence, how shall I accept them? Calmet.—How dare you offer them to me? Worthington.