For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says the LORD of Armies.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Sacrifice. Prot. “incense.” Bible.—Clean oblation. The precious body and blood of Christ in the eucharistic sacrifice. Challoner.—This is denoted by the very word mincha, the offering of flour and wine. Calmet. See S. Just. dial. S. Iræn. iv. 32. Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. xviii. 35.—“We pollute this bread, that is the body of Christ, when we approach the altar unworthily.” Saint Jerome verse 7.—This sacrifice is clean. Trid. xxii. Calmet. i. Menochius.—It is offered daily throughout the world. The Jews see the completion of this prediction, and are vexed; they strive to elude its force. Though enemies, they bear about these proofs of our faith, and of their own condemnation. Calmet.—God not only changed his people, but instituted a better sacrifice. Instead of the former needy elements, (Galatians 4) which were often defiled by the sins of the offerers, He instituted the sacrifice of his own Body and Blood, under the appearance of bread and wine, as Saint John Chrysostom (in Psalms 95.) Theod. and so forth prove against all opponents. A sacrifice different from any offered as many have demonstrated. Worthington.—Christ’s bloody sacrifice on the cross was performed on Calvary, and not among the Gentiles. What sacrifice can Protestants now produce? Bible.