Malachi, in The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)

The prophecy of Malachias (Malachi), last of the twelve lesser prophets. This is Malachi as it stands in the second tome of the Douay Old Testament (Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1610), the English College of Douai’s Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, in its original spelling. The page gives every chapter with its printed summary, the verse text and the marginal notes and the Annotations.

THE PROPHECIE OF MALACHIE.

MALACHIE (whom S. Ierom, and ſome others thinke to be Eſdras) [Margin: In ca. 2. v. 7. & ⟨illegible⟩. 3. v. 7.] [Margin: Much is conteyned in this briefe Prophecie.] prophecied laſt of the twelue, after that the Temple was reedified. He reprehendeth both Prieſtes, and people, for that they did not offer their ſacrifices with ſinceritie; foresheweth the reiection of the Iewes, and calling of the Gentils by Christ. Before whoſe first coming shal be one Precurſor: and an other before his laſt coming to iudge.

Chapter 1

CHAP. I. God shewed his especial loue towards the Iewes, in that he choiſe their progenitor Iacob, rather then Eſau. 7. Prieſtes are reprehended, for not offering the beſt thinges in ſacrifice. 10. The old ſacrifices shal be reiected, and new farre more excellent shal be offered in al nations.

1 THE burden of the word of our Lord to Iſrael in the hand of Malachie.

2 I haue loued you, ſayth our Lord: & you haue ſayd: Wherin haſt thou loued vs? [a] Was not Eſau brother to Iacob, ſayth our Lord, and I loued Iacob,

3 but hated Eſau? and I layd his mountaines into a wildernes, & his inheritance vnto the dragons of the deſert.

4 But if Idumea shal ſay: We are deſtroyed, but returning we wil build the thinges that are deſtroyed: thus ſayth the Lord of hoſts: Theſe shal build, and I wil deſtroy: and they shal be called the borders of impietie, and the people with whom our Lord is angrie [b] for euer.

5 And your eyes shal ſee: and you shal ſay: Our Lord be magnified vpon the border of Iſrael.

6 The ſonne honoureth the father, and the ſeruant his lord: if then I be the father, where is my honour? and if I be the Lord, where is my feare: ſayth the Lord of hoſts?

7 To you ô prieſts, that deſpiſe my name, & haue ſayd: Wherin haue we deſpiſed thy name? [c] You offer vpon myne altar polluted bread: and you ſay: Wherin haue we polluted thee? In that you ſay: The table of our Lord is contemptible.

8 If you offer the blind to be immolated, is it not euil? and if you offer the ⟨illegible⟩ame and the ⟨illegible⟩eble is it not euil? offer it d to thy prince if it shal pleaſe him, or if he wil receiue thy face, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

9 And now beſech ye the face of God, that he may haue mercie on you (for by your hand hath this bene done) if by any meanes he wil receiue your faces, ſaith the Lord of hoſts.

10 Who is there among you, that wil shut the doores, & wil kindle fire on my altar for naught? “ I haue no wil in you, ſayth the Lord of hoſts: and gift I wil not receiue of your hand.

11 For from the riſing of the ſunne euen to the going downe, great is my name among the Gentils, & “ in euerie place there is ſacrificing, and there is offered to my name a cleane oblation: becauſe my name is great among the Gentils, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

12 And you haue polluted it in that you ſay: The table of our Lord is contaminated: and that which is layd therupon, is contemptible with the fyre, that deuoureth it.

13 And you haue ſayd: Loe of labour, and you puffed at it, ſayth the Lord of hoſts, and you brought in [e] of robberies [f] the lame & the ſicke, and brought in a gift: Why, shal I receiue it of your hand, ſayth our Lord?

14 Curſed is the deceitful, that hath in his flocke a male, and making a vow immolateth the feeble to our Lord: becauſe I am a great King, ſayth the Lord of hoſts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentils.

Marginal notes to Chapter 1

• 2 [a] Gods peculiar loue was firſt ſhewed to the Iſraelits in preferrīg their progenitor Iacob and them his iſſue befor Eſau & his of ſpring, though in them there vvas no difference at al, the one neither deſeruing more, nor leſſe then the other, but of his mere mercie electing the one and iuſtly reiecting the other. vvherof ſee the Annot. Rom. 9.
• 3 Rom. 9. v. 1⟨illegible⟩.
• 4 [b] Againe laſtly the ſame ſpecial vndeſerued loue vvas ſhevved▪ in that the Idumeans ſubdued by the Chaldees remained in captiuitie, but the Iſraelites were novv reduced into their countrie.
• 7 [c] Thoſe that offer ba⟨illegible⟩ and contemptible thinges to God ſhew that they eſteme litle of God▪ and ſo by their ⟨illegible⟩ct diſpiſe and contemne him. d If you dare not offer your worſe thinges to your temporal prince, hovv dare you offer them to God?
• 11 Pſal. 11⟨illegible⟩ ▪
• 13 [e] Tvvo defectes vvere in their ſacrifices: they offered that vvhich they gotte by robberie, or extorſion:
• 13 [f] and not the beſt, but vvorſe part therof.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. I.

10. I haue no vvil in you.] Manie Prophets (as vve haue often noted) did foreſhevv the reiection of the Ievves, and vocation of the Gentils: but none [Margin: Reiection of the Ievves and vocation of the Gentils.] more plainly then this here; by vvhom God expreſly ſayth▪ I haue no vvil in you: and I vvil not receiue gift of your hand. The reaſon is alſo explicated in this chapter, becauſe God moſt peculiarly louing them, they vvere ſtil vngratful, and diſſpiſed him, committing ſinnes vpon ſinnes And therfore in their place, he would bring in the Gentils: and that not anie one, or fevv nations, but al from the riſing of the ſunne, to the going downe therof, ſhould ſovvner or later come into his Church.

11. In euerie place there is ſacrificing.] God not only changed, and multiplied [Margin: Al old ſacrifices aboliſhed, and the ſacrifice of Chriſts bodie & bloud prophecied.] his people, but alſo changed, and bettered his Sacrifice. For in place of ſacrificing cattel, birdes, and other weake and poore creatures, vvhich vvere not able [Margin: Gal. 4▪ v. 9.] to purge ſinnes, and vvere alſo polluted oftentimes by the ſinnes of them that offered the ſame, God here promiſeth a moſt effectual, pure, & excellent daylie Sacrifice, to continevv perpetually in al places of his Church, that can not be polluted. VVhich accordingly our Bleſſed Redemer and Sauiour inſtituted, of his ovvne bodie and bloud, in the formes of bread and vvine. As al ancient Fathers proue, by this place amongſt others. So S. Iuſtinus Martyr teacheth, in dialogo cum Triphone. S Cyprian. li. 4. ⟨illegible⟩ 18. aduerſus Iudaeos: S. Damaſcen. li 4. [Margin: Proued by the fathers.] c. 14 de ⟨illegible⟩ide Orthodoxa. S. Ierom, S. Theodoret, and S. Cyril in their commentaries vpon this place. S. Auguſtin li 18 c. 35. de ciuit. S. Chryſoſtom in Pſ. 95. and Orat. 2. contra Iudaeos▪ ſhevving plainly, and vrging the Ievves, and al oppugners of [Margin: And reaſons deduced from the ſcriptures.] this Catholique beleefe and doctrine, that this prophecie is no otherwiſe fulfilled, but in the daylie Sacrifice of the Church. For that here is prophecied an other Sacrifice, diſtinct and different from the Ievves ſacrifices: neither vvere ſacrifices offered in al the vvorld▪ neither could be ordinarily offered out of Ieruſalem. But of this moſt ſacred Myſterie, and particularly that it is here prophecied, [Margin: Deut. 16.] here is ſo much publiſhed by ancient and late vvriters, that more nedeth not to be here added.

Chapter 2

CHAP. II. Priestes are further reprehended becauſe they diſcharged not wel their great office. 10. Both they and others offended in marying ſtrangers. 14. They ought to loue, and not lightly diſmiſſe their wiues.

1 AND now to you this commandment [a] ô ye prieſts.

2 If you wil not heare▪ and if you wil not ſet it vpon the hart, to geue glorie to my name, ſayth the Lord of hoſts: I [b] wil ſend vpon you pouertie, & wil curſe your bleſſings, and I wil curſe them: becauſe you haue not ſet it vpon the hart.

3 Behold I wil caſt forth to you the arme, and wil ſpinkle vpon your face the dung of your ſolemnities, and it shal take you with it.

4 And you shal know that I ſent you this commandment, that my couenant might be with Leui, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

5 My couenant was with him of life and peace: & I gaue him feare: and he feared me, and at the face of my name he was afrayd.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquitie was not found in his lippes in peace, and in equitie he walked with me, and turned away manie from iniquitie.

7 For [c] the lippes of the prieſt shal keepe knowlege, and the law they shal require of his mouth: becauſe he is [d] the angel of the Lord of hoſts.

8 But you haue departed out of the way, and haue ſcandalized manie in the law: you haue made voide the couenant of Leui, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

9 [e] For which cauſe I alſo haue made you contemtible, and baſe to al peoples, as you haue not kept my wayes, and haue accepted face in the law.

10 Why, is there not one father of vs al? hath not one God created vs? why then doth euerie one of vs deſpiſe his brother, violating the couenant of our fathers?

11 Iuda hath tranſgreſſed, and abomination was done in Iſrael, and in Ieruſalem: becauſe Iudas hath contaminated the ſanctification of our Lord, which he loued, and hath had the daughter of a ſtrange god.

12 Our Lord wil deſtroy the man, that hath done this, the maſter, & the ſcholar out of the tabernacles of Iacob, & him that offereth gift to the Lord of hoſts.

13 And this agayne haue you done, you couered the altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping, and howling, ſo that I haue reſpect no more to ſacrifice, neither do I accept any placable thing at your hand.

14 And you haue ſayd: For what cauſe? becauſe the Lord hath teſtified betwen thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou haſt deſpiſed: and she thy partaker, and the wife of thy couenant.

15 Did not one make, and the reſidue of the ſpirit is his? And what doth one ſeeke, but the ſeede of God? Keepe ye then your ſpirit, and the wife of thy youth deſpiſe thou not.

16 When thou shalt hate, diſmiſſe, ſayth our Lord the God of Iſrael: but iniquitie shal couer his garment, ſaith the Lord of hoſts, keepe ye your ſpirit, and do not deſpiſe.

17 You haue in your wordes made our Lord to labour: and you ſayd: Wherein haue we made him to labou⟨illegible⟩? In that you ſay: Euerie one that doth euil, is good in the ſight of our Lord, and ſuch pleaſe him: or certes where is the God of iudgement?

Marginal notes to Chapter 2

• 1 [a] Prieſtes coueting & ſcraping riches do greatly diſhonour God: diminiſh the eſtimation of holie Sacraments & other rites, as though they were ⟨illegible⟩em ⟨illegible⟩ral to be ⟨illegible⟩ought & ſold for money, & ſo do ſcandalize the weake
• 2 Leui. 2⟨illegible⟩. Deut. 28.
• 2 [b] Such are happie if God by ſuffering them to be ſpoyled, recal them to repentance. For otherwiſe they wil be depriued of eternal revvard as being payed their vvages already in this vvorld. Theſe our Sauiour calleth. Hyrelinges, not true paſtors. Ioa. 10.
• 7 [c] The proper office of prieſts beſides the adminiſtration of Sacraments is alſo to teach the people true doctrine:
• 7 [d] as being the Angel, that is to ſay, the meſſenger, from God.
• 9 [e] VVhich holie functions prieſts not performing are made contemptible in this world and miſerable in eternal torments. Ip. ⟨illegible⟩ud. v. 11.
• 10 Mat. 2⟨illegible⟩. v. 9. Eph. 4. v. 5.
• 12 Amos 5. v. 22.
• 17 Epheſ. 4. v. 39.

Chapter 3

CHAP. III. A precurſer shal come before Chriſt. 3. The Prieſthood, and Sacrifice of the new law are pure, 5. God who ſeeth al ſinners wil punish them: 10. but if they amend, they shal receiue Gods benefites. 13. Not euil men, but the good pleaſe God.

1 BEHOLD I ſend [a] myne Angel, and he shal prepare the way before my face. And [b] forthwith shal come to his temple the Dominatour, whom you ſeeke, and [c] the Angel of the teſtament, whom you deſire. Behold he cometh, ſayth the Lord of hoſts:

2 and who shal be able to thinke the day of his aduent? and who shal ſtand to ſee him? For he as it were purging fyre, & as the herbe of fullers:

3 and he shal ſit purging, and clenſing the ſiluer, and he shal purge the ſonnes of Leui, and wil ſtreyne them as gold, and as ſiluer, and they shal be ⟨illegible⟩fering ſacrifices to our Lord in iuſtice.

4 And the ſacrifice of Iuda and Ieruſalem shal pleaſe our Lord, as the dayes of the world, and as the yeares of old.

5 And [d] I wil come to you in iudgement, and [e] wil be a ſwift witnes to ſorcerers, and aduouterers, and to the periured, and them that calumniate the hyre of the hyred man, the widowes, and pupils, and oppreſſe the ſtranger, nor haue feared me, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

6 For I the Lord, and I am not changed: and ye ſonnes of Iacob are not conſumed.

7 For from the dayes of your fathers you haue departed from mine ordinances, and haue not kept them. Returne to me, and I wil returne to you, ſayth the Lord of hoſts. And you haue ſayd: Wherin shal we returne?

8 Shal man faſten God, becauſe you do faſten me? And you haue ſayd: Wherein do we faſten thee? In tithes, and in firſt fruites.

9 And in penurie you are accurſed, and you your whole nation faſten me.

10 Bring in [f] al the tithe into the barne: and let there be meare in my houſe, and proue me vpon this, ſayth our Lord: if I open not vnto you the fludgates of heauen, and powre you out bleſſing euen to abundance,

11 and I wil rebuke for you the deuourer, and he shal not corrupt the fruite of your land: neither shal the vine in the filde be barren, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

12 And al Nations shal cal you bleſſed: for you shal be a land worthie to be deſired, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

13 Your wordes haue bene forcible vpon me, ſayth the Lord.

14 And you ſayd: What haue we ſpoken againſt thee? You haue ſayd: [g] He is vayne that ſerueth God, and what profite is it that we haue kept his precepts, and that we haue walked ſorowful before the Lord of hoſt?

15 Therfore now we cal the arrogant bleſſed, for they that doe impietie are builded, and they haue tempted God and are made ſafe.

16 Then ſpake they that feared our Lord, euerie one with his neighbour: and our Lord attended, and heard: and a booke of monument was writen before him for them that feare our Lord, and thinke on his name.

17 And they shal be to me, ſaith the Lord of hoſts, in the day that I doe to my peculiat and I wil ſpare them, as a man ſpareth his ſonne ſeruing him.

18 And you shal conuert, and shal ſee what is betwen the iuſt, and the impious: and betwen him that ſerueth God, and ſerueth him not.

Marginal notes to Chapter 3

• 1 [a] S. Iohn Baptiſt is called an Angel, or meſſenger becauſe he vvas to be ſent vvith ſpecial commiſſion from ⟨illegible⟩od: and for his puritie in Angelical life.
• 1 Mat. 11. v. 20. Mar. 1. Luc. 1. & 7. Pſal. 131. v. 17.
• 1 [b] S. Iohn vvas firſt onceiued likevviſe firſt b⟨illegible⟩rne▪ and he firſt prea⟨illegible⟩hed, and ſhortly after him our Sauiour came.
• 1 [c] Chriſt is the Angel of the teſtament, becauſe he made the Pact of peace betvven God and man.
• 5 [d] In the meane time God threatneth to puniſh al euen ſecrete ſinnes:
• 5 [e] knovven ⟨illegible⟩o him though not to other vvitneſſes.
• 7 Zach. 1. v. 3.
• 10 [f] Paying of tithes is moſt ſtrictly commanded.
• 14 Iob. ⟨illegible⟩ v. 14. Iſa. 5⟨illegible⟩ ▪ v. ⟨illegible⟩.
• 14 [g] Sinne of murmuring againſt God, is great blaſphe mie and not to lerable: For vvhen they were puniſhed by famine, for defrauding the Leuites of tithes, they blaſphemouſly imputed it to God: as though he had not ſuch care of his owne people, as he had of other nations, vvhich had abundance of temporal goodes.

Chapter 4

CHAP. IIII. In the terrible day of iudgement, the wicked shal be condemned, and the iuſt eternally rewarded. 5. Before which time Elias shal returne, and conuert the Iewes to Chriſt.

1 FOR behold [a] the day shal come kindled as a furnace: and al the proude, and al that doe impietie shal be ſtubble: and the day coming shal inflame them, ſayth the Lord of hoſts, which shal not leaue them roote, and ſpring.

2 And there shal riſe to you that feare my name the Sunne of iuſtice, and health in his winges: and you shal goe forth, and shal leape as calues of the heard.

3 And you shal treade the impious, when they shal be ashes vnder the ſole of your feete in the day, that I doe, ſayth the Lord of hoſts.

4 Remember ye the law of Moyſes my ſeruant, which I commanded him in Horeb to al Iſrael precepts, & iudgements.

5 Behold I wil ſend you [b] Elias the prophete, before the day of our Lord come great, and [c] dreadful.

6 And he shal conuert the hart of the fathers to the children & the hart of the children to their fathers: leſt perhaps I come, and ſtrike the earth with [*] anathema.

Marginal notes to Chapter 4

• 1 [a] In the day of iudgement it ſhal plainly appeare, vvhat difference is betvven the iuſt and the wicked.
• 1 Zach. 3. v 8. & 6. v. 11. Luc. 1. v. 78.
• 3 Exo. 20. D⟨illegible⟩ut 4. 5. & 6. Mat 11, & 17. v 11.
• 5 [b] The Septuagint for explication adde Thesbites. And S. Ierom. in 17. Mat teacheth that Elias shal in dede come and reſtore al thinges
• 5 [c] Chriſts firſt coming was in al mekenes not in terrour, but his coming to iudge wil be dreadful. And therfore the prophet here meaneth not S. Iohn Baptiſt, but that Elias himſelf ſhal come before the great and dreadful day of our Lord.
• 6 [*] vtter deſtruction⟨illegible⟩

The end of the Prophetical Bookes.

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