Malachi 2:15

“And did not he make one? etc.] That is, did not God make one man, and out of his rib one woman? did he not make man, male and female? did he not make one pair, one couple, only Adam and Eve, whom he joined together in marriage? or rather, did he not make one woman only, and brought her to Adam to be his wife? which shows that his intention and will were, that one man should have but one wife at a time; the contrary to which was the then present practice of the Jews: Yet had he the residue of the spirit; it was not for want of power that he made but one woman of Adam’s rib, and breathed into her the breath of life, or infused into her a human soul or spirit; he could have made many women at…”

“MAURER and HENGSTENBERG explain the verse thus: The Jews had defended their conduct by the precedent of Abraham, who had taken Hagar to the injury of Sarah, his lawful wife; to this Malachi says now, "No one (ever) did so in whom there was a residue of intelligence (discriminating between good and evil); and what did the one (Abraham, to whom you appeal for support) do, seeking a godly seed?" His object (namely, not to gratify passion, but to obtain the seed promised by God) makes the case wholly inapplicable to defend your position. MOORE (from FAIRBAIRN) better explains, in accordance with Mal 2:10, "Did not He make (us Israelites) one? Yet He had the residue of the Spirit (that is, His…”

“And did not He - , God, of whom he had spoken as the witness between man and his wife, “make one,” namely, Adam first, to mark the oneness of marriage and make it a law of nature, appointing “that out of man (created in His own image and similitude), woman should take her beginning, and, knitting them together, did teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those, whom He by matrimony had made one?” “Between those two, and consequently between all other married, to be born from them, He willed that there should be one indivisible union, for Adam could be married to no other save Eve, since no other had been created by God, nor could Eve turn to any other man than Adam, since there…”

“One - But one man, and one woman. Yet - Yet he could have made more. Wherefore one - One couple, and no more. A godly seed - A holy seed born to God in chaste wedlock, and bred as they were born, in the fear of God. Take heed - Keep your heart from wandering after strange wives. Malachi 2:16”

“did: Gen 1:27, Gen 2:20-24; Mat 19:4-6; Mar 10:6-8; Co1 7:2 residue: or, excellency the spirit: Gen 2:7; Job 27:3; Ecc 12:7; Joh 20:22 That he: Gen 24:3-7, Gen 24:44, Gen 26:34, Gen 26:35, Gen 27:46, Gen 28:2-4; Deu 7:4; Ezr 9:4; Neh 13:24; Jer 2:21; Co1 7:14; Eph 6:4; Ti1 3:4, Ti1 3:5, Ti1 3:11, Ti1 3:12; Tit 1:6 godly seed: Heb. seed of God, Gen 6:2; Hos 1:10; Act 3:25; Co2 6:18 take: Mal 2:14; Pro 4:23, Pro 6:25, Pro 7:25; Mat 5:28, Mat 5:29, Mat 15:19; Jam 1:14, Jam 1:15 treacherously: or, unfaithfully Malachi 2:16”