Malachi

For they say it is written, "They resisted God and were saved.

"You who provoke God by your words," says Malachi, "and you say, 'In what have we provoked Him?

"I will not accept a sacrifice from your hands, because from the rising of the sun to its setting my name has been glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place sacrifice is offered to me.

for from the rising of the sun even to its setting my name is glorified among the nations, and in every place a sacrifice is offered to my name, even a clean sacrifice" — namely the rendering of glory, and blessing, and praise, and hymns.

Therefore, if he said that other laws and other words and new arrangements of the testaments were to come to be from the Creator — so that he even appointed other and preferable offices of the very sacrifices, and that indeed among the nations, Malachi saying, "I have no will in you, says the Lord, and your sacrifices I will not receive from your hands;

Why, then, does the Spirit afterwards proclaim through the prophets that it would come to pass that in every place and in every land sacrifices should be offered to God — as through Malachi, the angel, one of the twelve prophets, he says: