For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of Armies.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. The angel, that is the minister and messenger. Challoner.—Priests must administer the sacraments, and likewise instruct the people, being God’s messengers. Worthington.—The Jews were well acquainted with the law. Jeremiah 18:18.—The priests had to decide most intricate cases. Deuteronomy 17:9 and 33:9. Calmet.—The sentence of the high priest was received like that of an angel. Diod. Sic. xl. apud Phol.—If such science was required under the old law, how much more is necessary in Christian priests, whose mysteries and duties are so much more important! Calmet.—Ignoratio scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Saint Jerome in Is. & hic.