 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 566 pages
...lips ; he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his month : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts." (Mai. ii. 5, 6.) Nay, you must not only inquire,... | |
 | Cornelius Bogardus - Baptism - 1831 - 150 pages
...injunction to hear or obey him." But we are to hear the instructions of a priest, as it is written. " For the Priest's lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts."6 But Jesus Christ is that priest whose law we are to seek and obey.... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...church will maintain respectability of character, without a learned as well as a pious ministry. " The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." He whose office it is to instruct others, should be careful to have... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 638 pages
...lips ; he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priets' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts." (Mai. ii.o, 6.) Nay, you must not only inquire, and submit to their... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...found in his lips ; he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...lips : he walked in peace :and equity, and did turn many away from their iniquity. For the priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts." May all the friends of Christ be stirred up to fervent prayer at this... | |
 | 1857 - 644 pages
...preached on the evening of the second day of the session, by Rev. CG Van Derveer, from Mai. 2, 1: "For the priest's lips' should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." ARTICLE X. DEPUTATI SYNODI. The following were chosen : Classis of... | |
 | Marcus van Loopik - Talmud - 1991 - 416 pages
...associative explanation of the context of Mal. 2:6, where Scripture continues with: 'For the priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the angel of the Lord of Hosts.' One also finds sources in which prophets are identified with angels on the basis... | |
 | Edward J. Young - Religion - 1992 - 612 pages
...emphasis is not restricted to the religious sphere. What Malachi says, however, is also pertinent: "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts" (Mai. 2:7) . As a representative of God the priest did occupy an exalted... | |
 | Nancy Anne Harrowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 358 pages
...behavior] the Name of Heaven is being profaned .... [And here is your prooftext:] "For the priests' lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the L-rd of Hosts. (Mal. 2:, 7). This [scriptural passage] means that if the teacher is... | |
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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 Lord of Hosts. 
