Malachi 3:14 (WEB)
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
Fathers and councils · 5
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.2Conference VI
“Wherefore now we call the proud happy, for they that work wickedness are enriched, and they have tempted God, and are preserved.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 14, 15.
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Jerome
“Yet the Lord afterwards threatens them with a day of judgment; and announcing beforehand the distinction that shall then be made between the righteous and the unrighteous, speaks to them thus: “Return ye, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 14, 15, 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“They that feared the Lord uttered these reproaches every one to his neighbor: and the Lord hearkened and heard; and He wrote a book of remembrance before Him, for them that fear the Lord and that revere His name.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 13–16.
Read the whole comment“And now we call aliens happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“Such are the carnal Jews until this day; and hence these murmurs of theirs against God, “The wicked are pleasing to Him,” and “It is a vain thing to serve God.”” — editor's note: Mal. ii. 17; iii. 14.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in The City of God XX.28.
Cited together in The City of God XX.29.
Cited together in The City of God XX.29.
Cited together in The City of God XX.28.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.2.
Cited together in The City of God XX.29.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.2.
Cited together in The City of God XX.28 and 2 other places.