Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsMalachi 1
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Read Malachi 1 in the BibleMalachi 1:11
In every place there is sacrificing.
God not only changed, and multiplied his people, but also changed, and bettered his Sacrifice. [1] For in place of sacrificing cattle, birds, and other weak and poor creatures, [2] which were not able to purge sins, and were also polluted oftentimes by the sins of them that offered the same, God there promiseth a most effectual, pure, & excellent daily Sacrifice, to continue perpetually in all places of his Church, that cannot be polluted. Which accordingly our Blessed Redeemer and Saviour instituted, of his own body & blood, in the forms of bread and wine As all ancient Fathers prove, [3] by this place amongst others. So S. Justinus Martyr teacheth, in dialogo cum Triphone, S. Cyprian, li. 1. c. 18. adversus Iudæos. S. Damascen. l. 4. c. 14. de fide Orthodoxa. S. Jerom, S. Theodoret, and S. Cyril in their commentaries upon this place. S. Augustin li. 18. c. 35. de civit. S. Chrysostom. in Ps. 95. & orat. 2. contra Iudæos, [4] shewing plainly, & urging the Jews, and all oppugners of this Catholic belief and doctrine, that this prophecy is no otherwise fulfilled, but in the daily Sacrifice of the Church. For that here is prophesied another Sacrifice, distinct and different from the Jews' sacrifices: neither were sacrifices offered in all the world, neither could be ordinarily offered out of Jerusalem. [5] But of this most sacred Mystery, and particularly that it is here prophesied, there is so much published by ancient and late writers, that more needeth not to be here added.
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Malachi 1:10
I have no will in you.
Many Prophets (as we have often noted) did foreshew the rejection of the Jews, ◦ and vocation of the Gentiles: but none more plainly than this here, by whom God expressly saith: I have no will in you: and I will not receive gift of your hand. The reason is also explicated in this chapter, because God most peculiarly loving them, they were still ungrateful, & despised him, committing sins upon sins. And therefore in their place, he would bring in the Gentiles: and that not any one, or few nations, but all from the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof, should sooner or later come into his Church.