Kniha proroka Malachiáša

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(KJV - Anglický - King James)

Mal 3, 1-18

1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to this temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifer of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Verš 1

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to this temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

Mt 11:10 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Mk 1:2 - As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Lk 1:76 - And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt 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 messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Verš 13

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

Jób 21:14 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Verš 5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Ex 20:7 - Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Ex 22:22 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Dt 24:17 - Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Am 2:7 - That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Verš 6

For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Ž 33:11 - The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Prís 19:21 - There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Iz 14:26 - This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

Iz 25:9 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Iz 46:10 - Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Verš 7

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Za 1:3 - Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith 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.