Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 2:3

3 Behold , I will corrupt your seed , and spread dung upon your faces , even the dung of your solemn feasts , and one shall take you away with it .

Note it we[illegible: 1 letter]l, and consider.

Take away the prolifi que vertue and str[illegible: 2 letters]gth of it, that it shal[illegible: 1 letter] bring forth none, or little Fruit; your seed you make plentiful, but you can not make your harvest so, nor will I, till you give me the Glory I contend for, and will have, e're I have done; I will rebuke, or check your seed, which will surcease to grow thereupon, tho' your vices checkt, thrive still; your seed for Harvest cannot grow up under my checks.

'Tis an expression of greatest contempt cast upon a person; it is a token of utmost undervalue, and scorn, so I will expose you, as you have exposed my Name to contempt.

Your most solemn days and feasts, which are by you accounted most holy, and in which you think you offer the most holy and acceptable Sacrifices shall be as loathsome to me as dung, and shall make you, who offer them illegally, as polluted, unclean, and loathsome as if I had thrown the dung of those Sacrifices into your faces.

You shall be taken away with it; removed as unclean as the dung it self, as unfit as that to be in the Temple, as fit to be cast out to the Dunghil; so contemptible shall you be, if you lay it not to heart.

Marginal references: Or, reprove.; Heb. scatter.; Or, it shall take you away to it.