Malachi 3:2 (WEB)
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
Fathers and councils · 11
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.13Book IV
“The divine word says that our God is “a consuming fire,” and that “He draws rivers of fire before Him;” nay, that He even entereth in as “a refiner’s fire, and as a fuller’s herb,” to purify His own people.” — editor's note: Cf. Mal. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment “And the holy Scriptures say that the Lord will, like a refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap, visit each one of those who require purification, because of the intermingling in them of a flood of wicked matter proceeding from their evil nature; who need…” — editor's note: Cf. Mal. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus VI.25Book VI
“…agreeably to the saying: “The Lord cometh like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and of gold.”” — editor's note: Cf. Mal. iii. 2, 3.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And concerning these two comings, Malachi the Prophet says, And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple; behold one coming.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 1–3.
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John Chrysostom
“And while one calls on Jerusalem, saying, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, for lo! thy King cometh to thee meek, riding upon an ass, and a young colt;”another proclaims His second coming also, saying on this wise, “The Lord, whom ye seek, will come, and who will abide the day of His coming?” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 1, 2.
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John Cassian
“Take away the uncleanness their blasphemy has brought on them, and purify with the fan of Thy sacred cleansing the souls that are plunged in stinking mud, so that the “dens of thieves” may become “houses of prayer:” and that in those which are now, as is written, the…” — editor's note: Cf. Mal. iii. 2, 3.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…cast down, a horn of salvation was raised up for us, and a chief corner stone, knitting us to itself and to one another, was laid in due season, or a fire to purify our base and evil matter, or a farmer’s fan to winnow the light from the weighty in doctrine, or a sword to cut out the roots of wickedness; and so…” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 2, 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Behold, He cometh, saith the Lord Almighty, and who shall abide the day of His entry, or who shall stand at His appearing?”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“…saying, “Behold, He cometh, saith the Lord Almighty; and who shall abide the day of His entrance? . . . for I am the Lord your God, and I change not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 1–6. Whole passage quoted.
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Tertullian
“Far greater still is his perverseness when, not being the Christ of John, he yet bestows on John his testimony, affirming him to be a prophet, nay more, his messenger, applying to him the Scripture, “Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”” — editor's note: Luke vii. 26, 27, and Mal. iii. 1–3.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…corruption, and darkness, and every other offshoot of evil had grown into the nature of the author of evil, the approach of the Divine power, acting like fire, and making that unnatural accretion to disappear, thus by purgation of the evil becomes a blessing to that nature, though the separation is agonizing.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in The City of God XX.25.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.25.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.25.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.1.
Cited together in The City of God XX.25.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.