For the priests lips should keep knowledge] Deut. 17. 9, 10. Jeremiah 18:18. He is as the treasure house of Gods word, and ought to give to every one according to their necessitie, and not to reserve it to himselfe.
messenger] Or, Ambassadour of the reconciliation between God and men, Ecclesiastes 5:6. Haggai 1:13. 2 Corinthians 5:20. and a Minister and instrument of the great Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ, Isaiah 63:9. Shewing that whosoever doth not declare Gods will, is not his messenger and minister.