Commentary on Malachi

Jerome (342–420)

Commentaries on the Prophet Malachi, Book One, by Saint Jerome of Stridon, Presbyter, addressed to Minervius and Alexander.

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

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Table of Contents

Prologue

1:1

1:6

1:7

1:8

1:9

1:10-14

2:1-2

2:3-4

2:5-7

2:8-9

2:10-12

2:13-16

2:17

3:1

3:2-5

3:6

3:7-12

3:13-15

3:16

3:17-18

4:1-3

4:4

4:5-6

Prologue

We want to interpret the last of the twelve prophets, Malachi ((or Malachim)), whose name was translated by the Seventy as 'His Messenger'. They said, 'The assumption of the word of the Lord is upon Israel in the hand of His Messenger', which is read in Hebrew as 'Malachi' (His Messenger), which rightly and explicitly means 'His Messenger', that is, My Messenger. And it should not be thought, according to the opinion of some (Origenists), that an angel came down from heaven and assumed a human body in order to speak to Israel the things that are commanded by the Lord. If names are to be interpreted, and from names there is not spiritual understanding, but the order of history is to be woven: therefore both Hosea, who is called savior, and Joel who is interpreted as Lord God, or the beginning, and the other…

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