Malachi 3:8 (WEB)
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
““Shall a man,” says he, “pierce his God, for you are piercing me?”” — editor's note: Malachi iii. 8. Jerome’s rendering is almost identical “Si affiget homo Deum, quia vos configitis me,” where the Douay version strangely departs from the…
Read the whole comment“And yet the same God who was crucified Himself predicted: “Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict Me?”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Another has robbed God, the giver of all, of the firstfruits of the barnfloor and winepress, showing himself at once thankless and senseless, in neither giving thanks for what he has had, nor prudently providing, at least, for the future.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 8.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.4.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.4.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.4.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.