 | 1827 - 396 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...mouth ; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. IT But Jesus Christ is that priest whose law we are to seek and obey. Consequently, he was here consecrated... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Mal. ¡i. 7. For the priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the...mouth : for he is the messenger of. the Lord of hosts. 2 Cor. iii. C. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...which they wore? Our prophet upbraids them with this gross and criminal ignorance : ' The priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the...his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of botto : but ye are departed out of the way : ye hare caused many to stumble at the law,' chap. ii.... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...as well as the spirit if love" is requisite. Under the Old Testament it was said, " For the iriests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the Messenger of he Lord of Hosts." Under the New Testament it is said by the Great Shepherd himself, " Every Scribe... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 pages
...apostleship' with the institutions of priesthood. " The priest's lips should retain knowledge, and the people should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts :" but it is but analogous to what has since often happened; if, in Job's days, it was ' one of a thousand,'... | |
 | Clergyman - 1827 - 462 pages
...that honourable name, because they are to feed their people with knowledge and understanding^ ? For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is tlie messenger of the Lord of Hostsc. By this means you will by degrees lead those into the knowledge... | |
 | 1827 - 488 pages
...me in peace and equity, and did turn many from their iniquity ; for Uie priesfs lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is the messenger of the Lard of hosts. All this sets forth the state of a pure and holy priesthood : but then follow terrible... | |
 | Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden - 2003 - 400 pages
...anathema."11 The phrase "of heaven" is purposely added, 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 the hosts." COMMENTARY ON GALATIANS i. 2Or"gospel." EuMgelion (gospel) and angeloi... | |
 | David Baron - 2001 - 572 pages
...and Israel His law (Deut. xxxiii. 8-10); or, as we have it in the beautiful picture in Mai. ii. 5-7, "the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." That they should also consult " the prophets " — that is, Haggai and Zechariah — was very natural,... | |
 | Paul D. Hanson - 2001 - 588 pages
...iniquity. For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction \ti>rn\ from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction [lorn]; you... | |
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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. 
