...man rob God1 yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee 1 [the answer is given,] In tithes and offerings. Ye are. cursed with a curse...; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." The Greek phrase in the original, J™ vl vi°! «« aiaws, (oh oi uioi tou aionos,) rendered "for...

...the great sin of withholding the tithes and offerings from the Church, which is termed robbing God. " Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye...curse, for ye have robbed me ; even this whole nation. Bring me all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house; and prove me now...

...the Lord, — the prophet who in God's name denounced the covetousness and sin of Israel, and said, " Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye...curse ; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that • be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith...

...had transgressed in withholding these things may be learnt from the words of the prophet Malachi : " Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye...curse : for ye have robbed me even this whole nation." Mai. 3. 8, 9. God forbid that these fearful words should ever be as applicable to Christians as to...

...works of their hands ? Was the language of the prophet Malachi applicable to them even at that time : " Will a man rob God ? Yet, ye have robbed me. But ye...curse; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation ?" (iii. 8, 9.) Or did it proceed from the natural forgetfulness and ingratitude of the human heart,...

...unto me, and Ï will return unto you, saith the Lprd of Hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return ? Will a man rob God ? .yet ye have robbed me. But ye...curse : for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into my storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and рroтe me now...

...estates are increased by these means, the spoilers may come, and Malachi's threatening be fulfilled — " Ye are cursed with a curse ; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." Another objection to the proposed commutation is, a fixed sum, even though it were in its nature as...

...remaining wholly in God ; and consequently the alienating of them is a robbing of God, Mai. iii. 8, 9. Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation, in tythes and offerings. If it was God that was robbed, it was God also that was the owner of what...

...and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto theLoRD an offering in righteousness. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse : for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me...

..."wherein have we robbed thee ?" And the response is, "in tithes and offerings." Therefore, it is added, "Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." Then follows the passage so often quoted in our meetings for conference and prayer : "Bring ye all...