Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Malachi 3:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 445, footnote 11 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. (HTML)

Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a Cleansing Which Some are to Undergo by Purifying Punishments. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1458 (In-Text, Margin)

The prophet Malachi or Malachias, who is also called Angel, and is by some (for Jerome tells us that this is the opinion of the Hebrews) identified with Ezra the priest, others of whose writings have been received into the canon, predicts the last judgment, 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.”[Malachi 3:1-6] From these words it more evidently appears that some shall in the last judgment suffer some kind of purgatorial punishments; for what else can be understood by the word, “Who shall abide the day of His entrance, or who shall be able to look upon Him? for He enters as a moulder’s fire, and as ...