Malachi 1:7 (WEB)
You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is contemptible.’
Fathers and councils · 2
Cyril of Jerusalem
“What he says, is to this effect: Before Thy coming, the evil spirits prepared a table for men, polluted and defiled and full of devilish influence; but since Thy coming.” — editor's note: ἠλισγημένην, a good restoration by Milles, with Codd. Roe, Casaub. Coislin. The earlier printed texts had ἠλυγισμένην, “overshadowed.” Cf. Mal. i. 7: ἄρτους…
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Synod of Gangra (c. 340)
“(Mal. i., 7 and 13.)” — the author cites it
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