Teks -- Malachi 1:7 (NET)

1:7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table of the Lord as if it is of no importance!

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Mal 1:7 - Bread

Either the meal-offerings, or rather in a more large sense, all sacrifices and oblations.

Wesley: Mal 1:7 - Ye say

Perhaps in words; at least your deeds speak your thoughts.

Wesley: Mal 1:7 - The table

This comprehends all that was offered to God.

JFB: Mal 1:7 - ye offer, &c.

God's answer to their challenge (Mal 1:6), "Wherein have we despised?"

JFB: Mal 1:7 - polluted bread

Namely, blemished sacrifices (Mal 1:8, Mal 1:13-14; Deu 15:21). So "the bread of thy God" is used for "sacrifices to God" (Lev 21:8).

JFB: Mal 1:7 - polluted thee

That is, offered to thee "polluted bread."

JFB: Mal 1:7 - table of the Lord

That is, the altar (Eze 41:22) (not the table of showbread). Just as the sacrificial flesh is called "bread."

JFB: Mal 1:7 - contemptible

(Mal 1:12-13). Ye sanction the niggardly and blemished offerings of the people on the altar, to gain favor with them. Darius, and probably his successors, had liberally supplied them with victims for sacrifice, yet they presented none but the worst. A cheap religion, costing little, is rejected by God, and so is worth nothing. It costs more than it is worth, for it is worth nothing, and so proves really dear. God despises not the widow's mite, but he does despise the miser's mite [MOORE].

Clarke: Mal 1:7 - Ye offer polluted bread

Ye offer polluted bread - The priests, probably to ingratiate themselves with the people, took the refuse beasts, etc., and offered them to God; and thus the sacrificial ordinances were rendered contemptible.

Calvin: Mal 1:7 - NO PHRASE

It was indeed the office of the priests to place bread daily on the table; but whence could bread be obtained except some were offered? Now nothing was lost to the priests, when they daily set bread before God, for they presently received it; and thus they preferred, as it was more to their advantage, to offer bread well approved, made of fine flour: but as I have said, their own convenience interposed, for they thought that they could not prevail with the people — “If we irritate these men, they will deny that they have anything to offer; and thus the temple will be empty, and our own houses will be empty; it is then better to take coarse bread from them than nothing; we shall at least feed our families and servants with this bread, after having offered it to the Lord.” We hence see how the fault belonged to the priests, when the people offered polluted bread, and unapproved victims.

Defender: Mal 1:7 - ye say, Wherein

This is the fifth of at least ten rhetorical questions placed by Malachi on the lips of those he was rebuking. This dialectic method of argumentation, adopted for the first time in Scripture here by Malachi, was appropriated by later Jewish teachers as a popular instructional method."

TSK: Mal 1:7 - Ye offer // polluted // The table

Ye offer : etc. or, Bring unto my, etc

polluted : Lev 2:11, Lev 21:6; Deu 15:21

The table : Mal 1:12; 1Sa 2:15-17; Eze 41:22; 1Co 10:21, 1Co 11:21, 1Co 11:22, 1Co 11:27-32

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mal 1:7 - Ye offer polluted bread // Polluted // Bread // Upon mine altar // And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? // In that ye say // The table // Is contemptible

Ye offer polluted bread you through covetousness take any the people bring, whether such as the law requires or no. If it answer not the perfection of the law, yet you first make it serve me, through your contempt of me, and then to serve your turn to feed you and yours.

Polluted either by ill-managing it, and misordering what is good and allowable, or accepting what is disallowed and forbidden, because of its blemishes.

Bread either the shew-bread, of which Exo 25:30 ; or meat-offerings, Exo 29:41 Le 2 Nu 28:5 ; or, in a more large sense, all that was to be offered unto God, sacrifices and oblations.

Upon mine altar: by this it appears bread is to be expounded here of sacrifices, and not to be confined to the narrow bounds of this one kind.

And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? they stand upon their own justification, and proudly contend with God, either implying they did not offer such polluted things, or if they were defective, and in law sense polluted, yet that this did redound to God, or affect him no more than the perfection of them could add to him.

In that ye say perhaps in words, however by your deeds you speak your thoughts and judgment; you think so, and then act so.

The table before it was altar, now it is table, not to be opposed each to other, but comprehending both, and all that was offered unto God on both.

Is contemptible as if they measured sacrifice and oblation by the splendour and riches of the temple and altar; the first were more pompous than the second, and these priests probably thought they might abate in the qualities of the offerings, as this temple abated in its splendour; they contemned this, and then contemn those offerings.

Haydock: Mal 1:7 - Bread

Bread, including all the victims, &c., Leviticus iii. 11., and Numbers xxviii. 2. (Calmet) ---

By vile presents they shew their contempt of God. (Worthington)

Gill: Mal 1:7 - Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar // and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee // In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible

Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar,.... Which some understand of the shewbread, mention being afterwards made of a "table", as Jerom; who observes that it was made of wheat, which the priests themselves sowed, reaped, ground, and baked, and so could take what they would out of it: as for their sowing it, it does not seem likely that they should be employed in such service, whatever may be said for their reaping; since the sheaf of the first fruits was reaped by persons deputed from the sanhedrim ^w; though of the reaping of that for the shewbread, I find no mention made; but as for grinding, sifting, kneading, and making it into loaves, and baking it, and taking it out of the oven, and putting it upon the table of shewbread, all this was the work of the priests ^x; and those of the house of Garmu ^y were appointed over that work: now, this bread might be said to be polluted, when they set upon the table such as was not made of fine wheat flour, and had not pure frankincense put upon or by each row, as the law required, Lev 24:5 nor is it any material objection to this sense, that it is an altar, and not a table, on which this bread was offered; since, as the altar is called a table, Eze 41:22, as this is in a following clause, the table may be called an altar; though it may be observed, that the shewbread is never said to be offered, but to be set, or put upon the table: indeed the burning of the frankincense set by it is called an offering made by fire unto the Lord, Lev 24:7 wherefore others interpret this of the daily meat offering, which went along with the daily sacrifice of the lambs, and part of which was burnt on the altar, Exo 29:40 or rather this designs sacrifice in general, sometimes called "bread", Lev 3:11 and so the Targum here,

"ye offer upon my altar an abominable offering;''

such as had blemishes in them, were blind or lame, as after mentioned; and had not the requisites of a sacrifice in them; or were offered not in a right manner, or by bad men, and with a wicked mind:

and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? thy bread offering or altar; as if their offerings were pure, and they themselves, and their consciences pure from sin. The answer is,

In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible; either the shewbread table, which yet was covered with gold, and all the vessels of it made of gold; or the altar, as in Eze 41:22 their actions spoke so loud, and declared that the table or altar of the Lord was a contemptible thing, since they cared not what was offered upon it: or the reason why it was had in contempt, as some think, was because there was not that holiness in the second temple as in the first: or, as Abarbinel and Kimchi say, because of the fat and the blood which were offered on the altar, which they esteemed contemptible things; not observing the end for which the Lord commanded them to be offered.