The Prophecy of Malachi: Covenant Faithfulness and Unfaithfulness (10)

12. The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. In Israel the sin of marrying heathen wives made the sinner worthy of being cut off, that is, of death or banishment. In the New Testament it makes one worthy of excommunication. Nor ought the elders of the church hesitate to censure, and if necessary put out of the church those who are guilty of these sins. The principle set...