 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 էջ
...chureh will maintain respectability of character, without a learned as well as a pious ministry. " The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they...law at his mouth ; for he is the messenger of the I^ord of hosts." He whose office it is to instruct others, should be careful to have his own mind richly... | |
 | Saint John Chrysostom - 1840 - 472 էջ
...anathema.1" The phrase " of heaven" is purposely added, Mai. 2, because priests are also called Angels. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they...seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger [Angel] of the Lord of hosts. Lest therefore it should be thought that priests are here meant by the... | |
 | Saint John Chrysostom - 1840 - 428 էջ
...phrase " of heaven" is purposely added, Mai. 2, because priests are also called Angels. For the priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger [Angel} of the Lord of hosts. Lest therefore it should be thought that priests are here meant by the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 378 էջ
...covenant. The high priest was appointed to mediate between God and his people. It was appointed that " the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he the messenger of the Lord of hosts;" but now all shall have access to God through our one Mediator,... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 էջ
...priests, as was the case of other ancient nations. Thus the prophet Malachi, (ii. 7,) says, " The priest-s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." But they were not invariably of this order ; for, in the time of David, we read that there were men... | |
 | Mortimer O'Sullivan, Robert James M'Ghee - 1840 - 690 էջ
...only of the priests, but of the people of Ireland. In the third chapter we find as follows : — '" The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at hu mouth.' And if he rfjects knowledge, God will reject him from discharging the office of a priest.... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1841 - 546 էջ
...faithful. (2) John xviii. 36, Jesus answered,^ My kingdom is not of this world. Mai. ii. 7. Forthe prfest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is Ihe messenger of the Lord of hosts. Acts v. 29. Then Peter and the 'other aposdes answered and said,... | |
 | Thomas Ward - 1841 - 132 էջ
...knowledge, and they " shall " seek the law at his mouth ; because he is the " angel " of the Lord of hosts. The priest's lips " should " keep knowledge, and they " should " seek the law at his mouth ; because he is the " messenger" of the Lord of hosts. (1) For " shall " they translate "should." And... | |
 | 1841 - 534 էջ
...and in this relationship, more emphatically than in any other, knowledge is power; " for the priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." If the people advance in knowledge, so must the clergy—in knowledge of every kind in which the people... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1842 - 396 էջ
...God in peace and uprightness, and converted many from iniquity: for the priest's lips were bound to keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he was the messenger of Jehovah Qthe God] of Hosts."* * Supplementary Note VIII. Thus we have briefly... | |
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the LOBD of hosts. 
