A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Malachi (Biblia.com)

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

of the old covenant.* But a decree is not a covenant, nor is there any reason to suppose, in the nature of the language used, that v. 4 refers to a different time from that alluded to in v. 5, which is evidently not in the future, but in the past. The character of the covenant with Levi to which reference is made is indicated in v. 5. “Levi” is here best accounted for as representative of the priestly class, rather than as the name of the son of Jacob. Thus it appears that the writer thinks of the

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