Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 1:8

8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil ? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governour : will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

This if, it implies they had done so, it chargeth them with somewhat in matter of practice among them, the lame and sick also they had offered.

Is it not against the express Command of God, Lev. 22.22, 23, 24. and Deut. 15.21. the living God should have living Sacrifices, and God who is perfect, should have perfect Sacrifices. But the people bringing such, the Priests accepting such, do in effect tell the World, they thought such Sacrifices good enough for that God they were offered to; so great prophaneness runs through this whole carriage.

Not their King, for they had none; but Governours they had, and these the Iews reverenced, and would not dare do that to them, they do boldly with God dayly.

Your Governour would not thank you, he would be angry with you, and account it an affront, and shall not the Lord of Hosts much more account it an indignity offered unto him? People in bringing Priests, in accepting these blemished Oblations which were not good enough; for a man did sin greatly, and spake their apprehensions of God to be contemptible and slight.

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