,this e,book was produced by ,david ,widger from etext #aeha prepared by ,dennis ,mc,carthy1 ,atlanta1 ,georgia and ,tad ,book1 student1 ,pontifical ,north ,american ,college1 ,rome4 ,,the ,,holy ,,bible ,translated from the ,latin ,vulgate ,diligently ,compared with the ,hebrew1 ,greek1 and ,other ,editions in ,divers ,languages ,,the ,,old ,,testament ,first ,published by the ,english ,college at ,douay ,a4,d4 #afji #afaj and ,,the ,,new ,,testament ,first ,published by the ,english ,college at ,rheims ,a4,d4 #aehb ,with ,annotations ,the ,whole ,revised and ,diligently ,compared with the ,latin ,vulgate by ,bishop ,richard ,challoner ,a4,d4 #agdi-ageb ,,the ,,prophecy ,,of ,,malachias ,,malachias1 whose name signifies ,the ,angel of the ,lord1 was contemporary with ,,nehemias1 and by some is believed to have been the same person as ,,esdras4 ,he was the last of the prophets1 in the order of time1 and flourished about four hundred years before ,christ4 ,he foretells the coming of ,christ2 the reprobation of the ,jews and their sacrifices2 and the calling of the ,gentiles1 who shall offer up to ,god in every place an acceptable sacrifice4 ,malachias ,chapter #a ,god reproaches the ,jews with their ingratitude3 and the priests for not offering pure sacrifices4 ,he will accept of the sacrifice that shall be offered in every place among the ,gentiles4 #a3a4 ,the burden of the word of the ,lord to ,israel by the hand of ,malachias4 #a3b4 ,i have loved you1 saith the ,lord3 and you have said3 ,wherein hast thou loved us8 ,was not ,esau brother to ,jacob1 saith the ,lord1 and ,i have loved ,jacob1 ,i have loved ,jacob1 etc444 ,i have preferred his posterity1 to make them my chosen people1 and to lead them with my blessings1 without any merit on their part1 and though they have been always ungrateful2 whilst ,i have rejected ,esau1 and executed severe judgments upon his posterity4 ,not that ,god punished ,esau1 or his posterity1 beyond their desert3 but that by his free election and grace he loved ,jacob1 and favoured his posterity above their deserts4 ,see the annotations upon ,rom4 #i4 #a3c4 ,but have hated ,esau8 and ,i have made his mountains a wilderness1 and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert4 #a3d4 ,but if ,edom shall say3 ,we are destroyed1 but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed3 thus saith the ,lord of hosts3 ,they shall build up1 and ,i will throw down3 and they shall be called the borders of wickedness1 and the people with whom the ,lord is angry for ever4 #a3e4 ,and your eyes shall see3 and you shall say3 ,the ,lord be magnified upon the border of ,israel4 #a3f4 ,the son honoureth the father1 and the servant his master3 if then ,i be a father1 where is my honour8 and if ,i be a master1 where is my fear3 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #a3g4 ,to you1 ,o priests1 that despise my name1 and have said3 ,wherein have we despised thy name8 ,you offer polluted bread upon my altar1 and you say3 ,wherein have we polluted thee8 ,in that you say3 ,the table of the ,lord is contemptible4 #a3h4 ,if you offer the blind for sacrifice1 is it not evil8 and if you offer the lame and the sick1 is it not evil8 offer it to thy prince1 if he will be pleased with it1 or if he will regard thy face1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #a3i4 ,and now beseech ye the face of ,god1 that he may have mercy on you1 7for by your hand hath this been done17 if by any means he will receive your faces1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #a3aj4 ,who is there among you1 that will shut the doors1 and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis8 ,i have no pleasure in you1 saith the ,lord of hosts3 and ,i will not receive a gift of your hand4 #a3aa4 ,for from the rising of the sun even to the going down1 my name is great among the ,gentiles1 and in every place there is sacrifice1 and there is offered to my name a clean oblation3 for my name is great among the ,gentiles1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 ,a clean oblation444 ,viz41 the precious body and blood of ,christ in the eucharistic sacrifice4 #a3ab4 ,and you have profaned it in that you say3 ,the table of the ,lord is defiled3 and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it4 #a3ac4 ,and you have said3 ,behold of our labour1 and you puffed it away1 saith the ,lord of hosts1 and you brought in of rapine the lame1 and the sick1 and brought in an offering3 shall ,i accept it at your hands1 saith the ,lord8 ,behold of our labour1 etc444 ,you pretended labour and weariness1 when you brought your offering2 and so made it of no value1 by offering it with an evil mind4 ,moreover1 what you offered was both defective in itself1 and gotten by rapine and extortion4 #a3ad4 ,cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male1 and making a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble to the ,lord3 for ,i am a great ,king1 saith the ,lord of hosts1 and my name is dreadful among the ,gentiles4 ,malachias ,chapter #b ,the priests are sharply reproved for neglecting their covenant4 ,the evil of marrying with idolaters3 and too easily putting away their wives4 #b3a4 ,and now1 ,o ye priests1 this commandment is to you4 #b3b4 ,if you will not hear1 and if you will not lay it to heart1 to give glory to my name1 saith the ,lord of hosts3 ,i will send poverty upon you1 and will curse your blessings1 yea ,i will curse them1 because you have not laid it to heart4 #b3c4 ,behold1 ,i will cast the shoulder to you1 and will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities1 and it shall take you away with it4 ,i will cast the shoulder to you444 ,i will cast away the shoulder1 which in the law was appointed to be your portion1 and fling it at you in my anger3 and will reject both you and your festivals like dung4 #b3d4 ,and you shall know that ,i sent you this commandment1 that my covenant might be with ,levi1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #b3e4 ,my covenant was with him of life and peace3 and ,i gave him fear3 and he feared me1 and he was afraid before my name4 #b3f4 ,the law of truth was in his mouth1 and iniquity was not found in his lips3 he walked with me in peace1 and in equity1 and turned many away from iniquity4 #b3g4 ,for the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge1 and they shall seek the law at his mouth3 because he is the angel of the ,lord of hosts4 ,the angel444 ,viz41 the minister and messenger4 #b3h4 ,but you have departed out of the way1 and have caused many to stumble at the law3 you have made void the covenant of ,levi1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #b3i4 ,therefore have ,i also made you contemptible1 and base before all people1 as you have not kept my ways1 and have accepted persons in the law4 #b3aj4 ,have we not all one father8 hath not one ,god created us8 why then doth every one of us despise his brother1 violating the covenant of our fathers8 #b3aa4 ,juda hath transgressed1 and abomination hath been committed in ,israel1 and in ,jerusalem3 for ,juda hath profaned the holiness of the ,lord1 which he loved1 and hath married the daughter of a strange god4 #b3ab4 ,the ,lord will cut off the man that hath done this1 both the master1 and the scholar1 out of the tabernacles of ,jacob1 and him that offereth an offering to the ,lord of hosts4 #b3ac4 ,and this again have you done1 you have covered the altar of the ,lord with tears1 with weeping1 and bellowing1 so that ,i have no more a regard to sacrifice1 neither do ,i accept any atonement at your hands4 ,with tears444 ,viz41 by occasion of your wives1 whom you have put away3 and who came to weep and lament before the altar4 #b3ad4 ,and you have said3 ,for what cause8 ,because the ,lord hath been witness between thee1 and the wife of thy youth1 whom thou hast despised3 yet she was thy partner1 and the wife of thy covenant4 #b3ae4 ,did not one make her1 and she is the residue of his spirit8 ,and what doth one seek1 but the seed of ,god8 ,keep then your spirit1 and despise not the wife of thy youth4 #b3af4 ,when thon shalt hate her put her away1 saith the ,lord1 the ,god of lsrael3 but iniquity shalt cover his garment1 saith the ,lord of hosts1 keep your spirit1 and despise not4 ,iniquity shall cover his garment444 ,viz41 of every man that putteth away his wife without just cause2 notwithstanding that ,god permitted it in the law1 to prevent the evil of murder4 #b3ag4 ,you have wearied the ,lord with your words1 and you said3 ,wherein have we wearied him8 ,in that you say3 ,every one that doth evil1 is good in the sight of the ,lord1 and such please him3 or surely where is the ,god of judgment8 ,malachias ,chapter #c ,christ shall come to his temple1 and purify the priesthood4 ,they that continue in their evil ways shall be punished3 but true penitents shall receive a blessing4 #c3a4 ,behold ,i send my angel1 and he shall prepare the way before my face4 ,and presently the ,lord1 whom you seek1 and the angel of the testament1 whom you desire1 shall come to his temple4 ,behold1 he cometh1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 ,my angel444 ,viz41 ,john the ,baptist1 the messenger of ,god1 and forerunner of ,christ4 #c3b4 ,and who shall be able to think of the day of his coming8 and who shall stand to see him8 for he is like a refining fire1 and like the fuller's herb3 #c3c4 ,and he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver1 and he shall purify the sons of ,levi1 and shall refine them as gold1 and as silver1 and they shall offer sacrifices to the ,lord in justice4 #c3d4 ,and the sacrifice of ,juda and of ,jerusalem shall please the ,lord1 as in the days of old1 and in the ancient years4 #c3e4 ,and ,i will come to you in judgment1 and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers1 and adulterers1 and false swearers1 and them that oppress the hireling in his wages1 the widows1 and the fatherless3 and oppress the stranger1 and have not feared me1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #c3f4 ,for ,i am the ,lord1 and ,i change not3 and you the sons of ,jacob are not consumed4 #c3g4 ,for from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances1 and have not kept them3 ,return to me1 and ,i will return to you1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 ,and you have said3 ,wherein shall we return8 #c3h4 ,shall a man afflict ,god1 for you afflict me4 ,and you have said3 ,wherein do we afflict thee8 in tithes and in firstfruits4 #c3i4 ,and you are cursed with want1 and you afflict me1 even the whole nation of you4 #c3aj4 ,bring all the tithes into the storehouse1 that there may be meat in my house1 and try me in this1 saith the ,lord3 if ,i open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven1 and pour you out a blessing even to abundance4 #c3aa4 ,and ,i will rebuke for your sakes the devourer1 and he shall not spoil the fruit of your land3 neither shall the vine in the field be barren1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #c3ab4 ,and all nations shall call you blessed3 for you shall be a delightful land1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #c3ac4 ,your words have been unsufferable to me1 saith the ,lord4 #c3ad4 ,and you have said3 ,what have we spoken against thee8 ,you have said3 ,he laboureth in vain that serveth ,god1 and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances1 and that we have walked sorrowful before the ,lord of hosts8 #c3ae4 ,wherefore now we call the proud people happy1 for they that work wickedness are built up1 and they have tempted ,god and are preserved4 #c3af4 ,then they that feared the ,lord1 spoke every one with his neighbour3 and the ,lord gave ear1 and heard it3 and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the ,lord1 and think on his name4 #c3ag4 ,and they shall be my special possession1 saith the ,lord of hosts1 in the day that ,i do judgment3 and ,i will spare them1 as a man spareth his son that serveth him4 #c3ah4 ,and you shall return1 and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked3 and between him that serveth ,god1 and him that serveth him not4 ,malachias ,chapter #d ,the judgment of the wicked1 and reward of the just4 ,an exhortation to observe the law4 ,elias shall come for the conversion of the ,jews4 #d3a4 ,for behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace3 and all the proud1 and all that do wickedly shall be stubble3 and the day that cometh shall set them on fire1 saith the ,lord of hosts1 it shall not leave them root1 nor branch4 #d3b4 ,but unto you that fear my name1 the ,sun of justice shall arise1 and health in his wings3 and you shall go forth1 and shall leap like calves of the herd4 #d3c4 ,and you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that ,i do this1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 #d3d4 ,remember the law of ,moses my servant1 which ,i commanded him in ,horeb for all ,israel1 the precepts1 and judgments4 #d3e4 ,behold1 ,i will send you ,elias the prophet1 before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the ,lord4 #d3f4 ,and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children1 and the heart of the children to their fathers3 lest ,i come1 and strike the earth with anathema4 ,he shall turn the heart1 etc444 ,by bringing over the ,jews to the faith of ,christ1 he shall reconcile them to their fathers1 viz41 the partiarchs and prophets2 whose hearts for many ages have been turned away from them1 because of their refusing to believe in ,christ4-,ibid4 ,with anathema444 ,in the ,hebrew1 ,cherem1 that is1 with utter destruction4