Malachi 1:8

if Rather, When. Their poverty since the return from Babylon might possibly be urged by them as an excuse for this.

Is it not evil? Rather, It is no evil!, ironically, as in R.V.

offer it The R.V. renders, present it, with a view no doubt to indicate that it is not the same Hebrew word as is rendered offerin Malachi 1:7 and in the former part of this verse.

thy governor It is a foreign title, Pechah, that is here used, and so a badge of the continued servitude of the nation; though it may have been borne at this time by Jews, as it was by Zerubbabel at the Return from the Captivity. See note on Haggai 1:1.

accept thy person i.e. regard thee with favour, as in Malachi 1:9, and elsewhere. The phrase, however, often occurs in a bad sense of exercising partiality, e.g. Leviticus 19:15; Psalms 82:2.