Kniha proroka Malachiáša

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Mal 3, 1-18

1 Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts. 2 And who will be able to consider the day of his advent, and who will stand firm in order to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb. 3 And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice. 4 And the sacrifice 532 of Judah and of Jerusalem will please the Lord, just as in the days of past generations, and as in the ancient years. 5 And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts. 6 For I am the Lord, and I do not change. And you, the sons of Jacob, have not been consumed. 7 For, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And you have said, “In what way, shall we return?” 8 If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. And you have said, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits. 9 And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance. 11 And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he will not corrupt the fruit of your land. Neither will the vine in the field be barren, says the Lord of hosts. 12 And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, says the Lord of hosts. 13 Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord. 14 And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts? 15 Therefore, we now call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved.” 16 Then those who fear the Lord spoke, each one with his neighbor. And the Lord paid attention and heeded. And a book of remembrance was written in his sight, for those who fear the Lord and for those who consider his name. 17 And they will be my special possession, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I act. And I will spare them, just as a man spares his son who serves him. 18 And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.

Verš 1

Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts.

Mt 11:10 - For this is he, of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.’

Mk 1:2 - As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

Lk 1:76 - And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the face of the Lord: to prepare his ways,

Lk 7:27 - This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.”

Verš 13

Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.

Jób 21:14 - Who has said to God, “Depart from us, for we do not want the knowledge of your ways.

Verš 5

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Ex 20:7 - You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold harmless one who takes the name of the Lord his God falsely.

Ex 22:22 - You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

Dt 24:17 - You shall not pervert the judgment of the new arrival or the orphan, nor shall you take away the widow’s garment as collateral.

Am 2:7 - They grind the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth, and they divert the way of the humble. And the son, as well as his father, have gone to the same girl, so that they outrage my holy name.

Verš 6

For I am the Lord, and I do not change. And you, the sons of Jacob, have not been consumed.

Ž 33:11 - The rich have been needy and hungry, but those who seek the Lord will not be deprived of any good thing.

Prís 19:21 - There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Iz 14:26 - This is the plan that I have 404 decided, concerning the entire earth, and this is the hand which is extended over all the nations.

Iz 25:9 - And they will say in that day: “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord! We have endured for him. We will exult and rejoice in his salvation.”

Iz 46:10 - From the beginning, I announce the last things, and from the start, the things that have not yet been done, saying: My plan will stand firm, and my entire will shall be done.

Verš 7

For, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And you have said, “In what way, shall we return?”

Za 1:3 - And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Mal 3,1-4 - Na žaloby, že na svete zavládol zločin, prisľubuje Boh Mesiáša, ktorému príde predchodca pripraviť cestu; porov. Iz 40,3; Mt 11,10; Lk 7,27. Mesiáš oslávi svoj chrám (porov. Ag 2,7) a prevedie mravnú očistu. Z akejsi zeliny, zvanej bórit, pripravovali práči lúh; porov. Jer 2,22. O podobnej, ku vytápaniu kovu prirovnanej mravnej očiste porov. Iz 1,25; Jer 6,27; Ez 22,20. Mesiáš sa volá anjelom, poslom zmluvy, lebo uzavrel novozákonnú zmluvu medzi Bohom a novým Božím národom. Dosť jasne sa v tejto stati naznačuje aj božstvo Mesiáša: Boh hovorí, že pošle pred sebou predchodcu, stotožňuje sa teda s Mesiášom, ktorý má prísť do svojho chrámu. Mesiáš predovšetkým ustanoví čistú obetu; o tej pozri 1,11.

Mal 3,6 - Keď sa národ obrátil k Bohu, Boh ho zachránil. Dôkaz toho je, že národ až dosiaľ trvá, napriek jeho hriechom. Ak sa obrátia, aj teraz ich zachráni, lebo on sa nemení, zaobchádza s nimi vždy rovnako podľa zásluh.

Mal 3,8-10 - O desiatkoch pozri Lv 27,30–33; Nm 18, 20–32; Dt 14,22–29. O poplatkoch napr. Nm 15,17–21; Lv 7,14.32. – Požehnaním sa tu rozumie dážď.

Mal 3,11 - Žráčom tu volá prorok kobylky; porov. Joel 1,4.

Mal 3,16 - Pamätná kniha je symbolom Božej vševedúcnosti, porov. Ž 56,9; 139,16. Boh nezabudne na zásluhy pobožných.

Mal 3,19 - Verše 19–24 sú vo Vulg 4,1–6. – Deň, o ktorom sa tu hovorí, je deň súdu.

Mal 3,20 - Teliatko poskakuje veľmi veselo. Týmto ľudovým prirovnaním chce prorok znázorniť radosť spasených.

Mal 3,22-24 - Prorok upozorňuje, že kto chce pri Božom súde obstáť, má zachovávať Boží zákon. Aby súd nezastihol ľudí nepripravených, pošle Boh pred svojím príchodom k súdu proroka Eliáša. O tomto prorokovi vieme, že nezomrel, ale že ho Boh vzal v ohnivom voze do neba (2 Kr 2,11; Sir 48,9; 1 Mach 2,58). – Sú však aj medzi katolíckymi učencami takí, ktorí po príklade sv. Efréma tvrdia, že tu Malachiáš nehovorí o Eliášovi, ale o sv. Jánovi Krstiteľovi, a odvolávajú sa pritom na slová anjela Zachariášovi, otcovi sv. Jána Krstiteľa (Lk 1,17), a na slová Spasiteľa (Mt 11,14). Nie je teda celkom isté, že pred posledným súdom príde znovu na zem Eliáš.