These are very strong expressions of expostulation. God appeals to the common principles and laws of nature. Children and servants do reverence to them that have the rule over them. How much more is due to the Lord, as the common Father of his people. Reader! how heightened is this principle to believers, who are adopted in and through Christ, into the family and household of faith, and are permitted, yea, commanded to cry, Abba, Father! Galatians 4:6. Holy aggravated the sin to the priests of God; and all believers in Christ are made kings and priests to God and the Father. Revelation 1:6. I humbly conceive, that there is an eye in this expostulation to the Pharisaical pride and self-righteousness of men, which in after ages manifested itself in opposition to the righteousness of Christ. Everything offered without an eye to Christ is polluted. It is, in the language of the Prophet, a lame and blind sacrifice. And as under the law, whatever was blemished was rejected, so in the Gospel, all offerings but the one perfect offering of the Lord Jesus Christ is blemished and rejected.
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6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
7 Ye offerb polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
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 governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.