Malachi 2:10

one father i.e. God, as the parallelism suggests. Comp. John 8:41. The reference to Abraham, though of course admissible (Matthew 3:9; John 8:39), is less satisfactory.

his brother Out of the common Fatherhood springs a common brotherhood which intensifies the wrong. So St Paul writes, with reference to a similar subject, 1 Thessalonians 4:6. It may however only mean "one against another."

the covenant of our fathers Exodus 34:10-16; Deuteronomy 7:1-4.