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Malachi","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF MALACHIAS\n\nMALACHIAS, whose name signifies The Angel of the Lord, was contemporary\nwith NEHEMIAS, and by some is believed to have been the same person as\nESDRAS. He was the last of the prophets, in the order of time, and\nflourished about four hundred years before Christ. He foretells the\ncoming of Christ; the reprobation of the Jews and their sacrifices; and\nthe calling of the Gentiles, who shall offer up to God in every place an\nacceptable sacrifice.\n\n\nMalachias Chapter 1\n\nGod reproaches the Jews with their ingratitude: and the priests for not\noffering pure sacrifices. He will accept of the sacrifice that shall be\noffered in every place among the Gentiles.\n\n1:1. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of\nMalachias.\n\n1:2. I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast\nthou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have\nloved Jacob,\n\nI have loved Jacob, etc... I have preferred his posterity, to make them\nmy chosen people, and to lead them with my blessings, without any merit\non their part, and though they have been always ungrateful; whilst I\nhave rejected Esau, and executed severe judgments upon his posterity.\nNot that God punished Esau, or his posterity, beyond their desert: but\nthat by his free election and grace he loved Jacob, and favoured his\nposterity above their deserts. See the annotations upon Rom. 9.\n\n1:3. But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness,\nand given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.\n\n1:4. But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and\nbuild up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They\nshall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the\nborders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for\never.\n\n1:5. And your eyes shall see: and you shall say: The Lord be magnified\nupon the border of Israel.\n\n1:6. The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I\nbe a father, where is my honour?  and if I be a master, where is my\nfear: saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n1:7. To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein\nhave we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and\nyou say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of\nthe Lord is contemptible.\n\n1:8. If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you\noffer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if\nhe will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the\nLord of hosts.\n\n1:9. And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you,\n(for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive\nyour faces, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n1:10. Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle\nthe fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord\nof hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.\n\n1:11. For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is\ngreat among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and\nthere is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among\nthe Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nA clean oblation... Viz., the precious body and blood of Christ in the\neucharistic sacrifice.\n\n1:12. And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is\ndefiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire\nthat devoureth it.\n\n1:13. And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away,\nsaith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the\nsick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith\nthe Lord?\n\nBehold of our labour, etc... You pretended labour and weariness, when\nyou brought your offering; and so made it of no value, by offering it\nwith an evil mind. Moreover, what you offered was both defective in\nitself, and gotten by rapine and extortion.\n\n1:14. Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male, and\nmaking a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble to the Lord: for\nI am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful\namong the Gentiles.\n\nMalachias Chapter 2\n\nThe priests are sharply reproved for neglecting their covenant. The evil\nof marrying with idolaters: and too easily putting away their wives.\n\n2:1. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.\n\n2:2. If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give\nglory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you,\nand will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have\nnot laid it to heart.\n\n2:3. Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon your\nface the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.\n\nI will cast the shoulder to you... I will cast away the shoulder, which\nin the law was appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you in my\nanger: and will reject both you and your festivals like dung.\n\n2:4. And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my\ncovenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:5. My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear:\nand he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.\n\n2:6. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in\nhis lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and turned many\naway from iniquity.\n\n2:7. For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall\nseek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.\n\nThe angel... Viz., the minister and messenger.\n\n2:8. But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to\nstumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the\nLord of hosts.\n\n2:9. Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all\npeople, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the\nlaw.\n\n2:10. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then\ndoth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our\nfathers?\n\n2:11. Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in\nIsrael, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the\nLord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.\n\n2:12. The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both the\nmaster, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that\noffereth an offering to the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:13. And this again have you done, you have covered the altar of the\nLord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so that I have no more a\nregard to sacrifice, neither do I accept any atonement at your hands.\n\nWith tears... Viz., by occasion of your wives, whom you have put away:\nand who came to weep and lament before the altar.\n\n2:14. And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been\nwitness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast\ndespised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.\n\n2:15. Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And\nwhat doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and\ndespise not the wife of thy youth.\n\n2:16. When thon shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of\nlsrael: but iniquity shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts,\nkeep your spirit, and despise not.\n\nIniquity shall cover his garment... Viz., of every man that putteth away\nhis wife without just cause; notwithstanding that God permitted it in\nthe law, to prevent the evil of murder.\n\n2:17. You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein\nhave we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good\nin the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the\nGod of judgment?\n\nMalachias Chapter 3\n\nChrist shall come to his temple, and purify the priesthood. They that\ncontinue in their evil ways shall be punished: but true penitents shall\nreceive a blessing.\n\n3:1. Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my\nface. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the\ntestament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh,\nsaith the Lord of hosts.\n\nMy angel... Viz., John the Baptist, the messenger of God, and forerunner\nof Christ.\n\n3:2. And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who\nshall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the\nfuller's herb:\n\n3:3. And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall\npurify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver,\nand they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.\n\n3:4. And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord,\nas in the days of old, and in the ancient years.\n\n3:5. And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness\nagainst sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that\noppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and\noppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:6. For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are\nnot consumed.\n\n3:7. For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my\nordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to\nyou, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we\nreturn?\n\n3:8. Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said:\nWherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.\n\n3:9. And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole\nnation of you.\n\n3:10. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat\nin my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you\nthe flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to\nabundance.\n\n3:11. And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he shall not\nspoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the vine in the field be\nbarren, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:12. And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a\ndelightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:13. Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.\n\n3:14. And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have\nsaid: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that\nwe have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before\nthe Lord of hosts?\n\n3:15. Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work\nwickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.\n\n3:16. Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his\nneighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of\nremembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and\nthink on his name.\n\n3:17. And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts,\nin the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth\nhis son that serveth him.\n\n3:18. And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the\njust and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that\nserveth him not.\n\nMalachias Chapter 4\n\nThe judgment of the wicked, and reward of the just. An exhortation to\nobserve the law. Elias shall come for the conversion of the Jews.\n\n4:1. For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the\nproud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that\ncometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not\nleave them root, nor branch.\n\n4:2. But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and\nhealth in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves\nof the herd.\n\n4:3. And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under\nthe sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of\nhosts.  4:4. Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him\nin Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.\n\n4:5. Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the\ngreat and dreadful day of the Lord.\n\n4:6. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the\nheart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the\nearth with anathema.\n\nHe shall turn the heart, etc... By bringing over the Jews to the faith\nof Christ, he shall reconcile them to their fathers, viz., the\npartiarchs and prophets; whose hearts for many ages have been turned\naway from them, because of their refusing to believe in Christ.-Ibid.\nWith anathema... In the Hebrew, Cherem, that is, with utter destruction.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 44: Malachias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":2429}