질문하신 본문은 "말라기에서 가장 난해한 본문"입니다. 예를 들어 최근에 출판된 탁월한 학위논문인 Gordon P. Hugenberger, [Marriage as a Covenant: Biblical Law and Ethics as Developed from Malachi] VTS 52 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994)에서도 말 2:15절을 해석하고 논의하는데 42페이지를 할애하고 있습니다(pp. 124-167).


우선 다음 영어본을 비교해보십시오. 나중에 시간이 되면 좀더 자세한 해설을 달겠습니다..

NIV
(1) Has not the Lord, made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
(2) But the one [who is our father] did not do this, not as long as life remained in him. And what was he seeking? An offspring from God.

NRSV
Did not one God make her? Both flesh and spirit are his. And what does the one God desire? Godly offspiring.

Hugenberger
Did He not made [you/them] one, with a remnant of the spirit belonging to it? And what was the One seeking? A godly seed!