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Malachi

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“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Malachi 4:5 Luke 1:76 Mark 1:2-3“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; See also: Zechariah 13:9 Isaiah 4:4 1 Corinthians 3:13-15and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness. See also: Isaiah 1:25 Proverbs 17:3 Zechariah 13:9Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in ancient years. See also: 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 Isaiah 56:7 Zechariah 8:3I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: James 5:8-9 Hebrews 13:4 Deuteronomy 5:11“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. See also: Numbers 23:19 Hebrews 13:8 James 1:17From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ See also: Zechariah 1:3 Romans 10:21 James 4:8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. See also: Proverbs 3:9-10 Matthew 22:21 Mark 12:17You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. See also: Deuteronomy 28:15-19 Haggai 2:14-17 Malachi 2:2Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for. See also: 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 Matthew 6:33 Proverbs 3:9-10I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Deuteronomy 11:14 Joel 2:22 Zechariah 8:12“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Isaiah 61:9 Isaiah 62:4 Zechariah 8:23“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ See also: Malachi 2:17 Romans 9:20 Isaiah 37:23You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies? See also: Isaiah 58:3 Psalms 73:8-13 Zephaniah 1:12Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’ See also: Jeremiah 12:1-2 Job 21:7-15 Malachi 2:17Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name. See also: Revelation 20:12 Psalms 56:8 Malachi 4:2They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. See also: Exodus 19:5 Deuteronomy 7:6 2 Corinthians 6:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him. See also: Matthew 25:46 Genesis 18:25 Psalms 58:10-11

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Malachi 3:1

Ver. 1. My angel, viz. John the Baptist, the messenger of God, and forerunner of Christ. Ch. ---

His purity and office procure him this title. W. --- Afterwards Christ himself shall come, for the ruin and for the resurrection of many. Lu. ii. 34. Hence threats and promises are intermixed. The evangelists read his face, making the Father speak, whereas the Son is introduced by the prophet, who however presently changes the person. It is all the same which person of the blessed Trinity speaks, as all act together. C. --- Testament. The Messias, the mediator of the covenant with mankind, (W.) with Abraham, and Moses. The latter calls him the prophet; (Deut. xviii. 18.) and Zacharias, alluding to this text, explains angel in the same sense. Lu. i. 76. --- Temple. The ancient Jews were convinced that the Messias would come to the temple of Zorobabel, and be its chief glory. Agg. ii. 8. C. --- Their descendants put off the coming for some long time, though the prophet says presently, or on a sudden. S. Jer. Basnage vi.

26. --- Some take this temple to be the womb of the bless Virgin. S. Cyr. S. Aug.

de Civ. Dei. xviii. 35. C. --- The Baptist was conceived, born, and preached first; and shortly after Christ appeared. W.

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Malachi 3:2

Ver. 2. Coming. This may be explained of the Baptist, (Lu. iii. 7.) or of the second coming of Christ; though his first coming shewed the hypocrisy of the Jews. They would not acknowledge him, but sought his death, and brought on their own condemnation. C. --- Fuller's. Sept.

"washers' herb." Borith is found in all the low places of Palestine, (S. Jer.) and probably denotes soda, (Jer. ii. 22. C.) or fullers' earth. H. --- Christ purified the religion of the Jews, or did what was requisite for that purpose. The people would not obey. Yet he established his Church in all purity.

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Malachi 3:3

Ver. 3. Justice. This is spoken of the Christian priesthood, which far excels that of Levi, Heb. v.

and vii. &c. C. --- Many Jewish priests embraced the gospel. Acts vi. 7. H.

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Malachi 3:4

Ver. 4. Years. So in the mass we beg that God would receive the sacrifice, "as he received the presents of Abel." M.

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Malachi 3:5

Ver. 5. Judgment. He has answered (v. 1, 2) the complaint of the Jews. C. ii. 17.

H. --- This he does here (M.) more pointedly. H. --- Christ condemned the world, as his spirit did likewise. Jo.

xvi. 8. He made an example of Jerusalem, which shewed that he would not leave crimes unpunished. We may also understand this of his last coming. C.

--- God threatens to punish even secret sins, which are know to him alone. W.

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Malachi 3:6

Ver. 6. Change. Heb. also, (H.) "hate or recommence." I do not strike the fallen.

Did I spare Sennacherib? &c. Have I not protected the posterity of Jacob? How then can you say that I am indifferent about human affairs? C. --- Consumed.

Sept. "you depart not from the sins of your fathers. You have rejected my," &c.

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Malachi 3:8

Ver. 8. Afflict. Lit. "pierce." Sept. "supplant," (H.) or kick at. 1 K. ii. 29. But the term applied to Heli is different. Here it signifies to nail or irritate. C. --- Tithes: the payment is most strictly commanded. W.

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Malachi 3:9

Ver. 9. Want. Heb. "malediction." S. Jerom specifies the kind. C. --- Sept. "and you obstinately turn away your eyes, and supplant me," &c. H.

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Malachi 3:10

Ver. 10. Heaven; copious showers. --- Blessing; fertility.

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Malachi 3:11

Ver. 11. Devour; locusts and other vermin. M. --- Malachias came later than Aggeus, and probably speaks of a different famine, to which the Jews were exposed for neglecting to pay tithes. C. --- How many now work on holydays, as if all depended on their labour and not on God's blessing! H.

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Malachi 3:14

Ver. 14. Vain. Murmuring against God is blasphemous and unsufferable. When the Jews were punished by famine, for neglecting to pay tithes, they laid the blame on God, as if he took more care of other nations which had abundance.

W. --- Sorrowful: "humbled." Chal. "in mourning."

Jun. --- But is seems to denote downcast countenances, which our Saviour orders his disciples not to affect. Mat. vi. 16. C.

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Malachi 3:15

Ver. 15. Proud. Sept. "strange." H. --- Z has been take for u. --- Built up: have a numerous family, (C.) and abundance. --- Tempted. Sept. "resisted."

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Malachi 3:16

Ver. 16. Then. Grabe changes tauta, these things, into tote, then. The Sept.

make the pious express the former sentiments. H. --- David, Jeremias, &c. had experienced such anxiety. Ps.

lxxii. 2. C. --- According to the Heb. &c. the just hearing such blasphemies, doubt not but God will mark them in the book (H.) of his justice, and punish them.

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Malachi 3:17

Ver. 17. Possession; ( peculium) the property of a slave. C. --- Such look upon the smallest things with eagerness. Heb. segula, (H.) means some precious thing. C. --- Spare. Sept. "chose,"

&c. H.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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