Malachi 1:6 (WEB)
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Fathers and councils · 8
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.9Conference XI
“Of which fear and love the Lord in chiding some shows what is befitting for each one: “A son knoweth his own father, and a servant feareth his lord: And if I be a Father, where is My honour: and if I be a Lord, where is my fear?”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
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“The one for beginners, i.e., for those who are still subject to the yoke and to servile terror; of which we read: “And the servant shall fear his Lord;” and in the gospel: “I no longer call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth;” and therefore “the servant,” He tells us, “abideth not in…” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6 (LXX.).
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John Chrysostom
“And how no man enquired of the Lord, inasmuch as they [the priests] themselves also transgressed, and knew it not even themselves?” — editor's note: See Mal. i. 6, and c. ii., iii
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Jerome
“And if I am a master where is my fear?”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
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Basil the Great
““A son,” it is said, “honoureth his father, and a servant his master.”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
Read the whole comment“For “a son honoureth his father and a servant his master,” and from all God asks one of these two things; for “if I then be a Father where is my honour? and if I be a Master where is my fear?”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…gods; and all of you are children of the Most High;” and this again, “If then I be a Father, where is mine honour? and if I be a Master, where is my fear?” and very many other statements, where the Jews are accused of showing by their sin that they did not wish to become sons: those things being left out of…” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“How can it be right to pass by Malachi, who at one time brings bitter charges against the priests, and reproaches them with despising the name of the Lord, and explains wherein they did this, by offering polluted bread upon the altar, and meat which is not firstfruits, which they would not have offered to one of…” — editor's note: Mal. i. 6.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.9.
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Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.9.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.9.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.9.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.