Biblia Sacra (Gutenberg Bible)

he attests to the sacraments of the new priesthood and the new temple. Malachias Malachi, which is interpreted as "messenger," and the fourth book of Regum Kings, from Salomon Solomon to Iechonias Jeconiah and from Ieroboam Jeroboam the son of Nabat Nebat to Osee Hoshea who was led into Assyrios Assyria, describe the kingdom of Iuda Judah and the kingdom of Isræl Israel. If you look at the history, the words are simple; if you look into the latent sense of the letter, they narrate the poverty of the church and the wars of the heretics against the church. The Duodecim Prophetae Twelve Prophets, confined within the narrow limits of one volume, signify nothing other than what they prefigure in the letter. Osee Hosea frequently names Effraim Ephraim, Samaria, Ioseph Joseph, Israel, and a wife of fornication, and children of fornication, and the adulteress locked in her husband's bedroom for a long time, sitting as a widow and, under mourning clothes, awaiting the return of her husband to her. Iohel Joel, son of Fatuel Pethuel, describes the land of the twelve tribes consumed by the caterpillar, the bruchus, the locust, and the rust; and after the emission of the former prophet, the Holy Spirit is to be poured out upon the servants of God and the handmaids—that is, upon the names of the one hundred and twenty believers—and poured out in the upper room of Sion Zion. Which upper room, rising gradually by the increments of the fifteen steps from one to fifteen, produces the number of fifteen, which are mystically contained in the Psalter. Amos, the shepherd and rustic, distinguishing the sycamores, cannot be explained in a few words. For who can worthily express the three and four crimes of Damasci Damascus, and Gaza, and Tyri Tyre, and Ydumee Edom, and the sons of Amon Ammon and Moab, and in the seventh and eighth degree, Iudee Judah and Israhelis Israel? He speaks to the fat cows that are on the mountain of Samaria, and attests to the house, both greater and lesser, that is about to fall. He sees the maker of the locust, and the Lord standing upon the wall, made of lead or adamant, and one pulling the fruits—the punishments upon sinners—and the famine in the land: not, however, for bread nor the thirst for water,

but for hearing the word of God. Abdias Obadiah, who is interpreted as "servant of the Lord," fights against Edom, and strikes the blood-brother and the brother of his brother, Iacob Jacob, the rival, with a spiritual sword. Ionas Jonah, the most beautiful dove, prefiguring the passion of the Lord by his shipwreck, calls the world to repentance and, under the name of Nineve Nineveh, announces salvation to the nations. Micheas Micah of Morasthi Moresheth, a co-heir of Christ, announces the devastation of the daughter of the robber and places a siege against her because she struck the cheek of the judge of Israel. Naum Nahum, the consoler of the world, rebukes the city of blood, and after its destruction speaks: "Behold upon the mountain the feet of one evangelizing and announcing peace." Abacuc Habakkuk, the strong and rigid wrestler, stands upon his watch and fixes his foot upon the fortification so that he may contemplate Christ on the cross and say: "His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise; his splendor will be as the light; horns are in his hands; there his strength is hidden." Sophonias Zephaniah, the watcher and knower of the secrets of the Lord, hears the cry from the gate of the fish and the wailing from the second, and the contrition from the hills. And he indicates the howling for the inhabitants of Pile Maktesh, because all the people of Chanaan Canaan have become silent; all who were wrapped in silver have been destroyed. Aggeus Haggai, festive and joyful, who sowed in tears so that he might reap in joy, builds the destroyed temple and introduces God the Father speaking: "Yet one little while and I will move the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will move all nations, and the Desired of all nations shall come." Zacharias Zechariah, mindful of his Lord, is manifold in prophecy; he sees Jesus clothed in filthy garments, and the stone of seven eyes, and the golden candlestick with seven lamps, and two olive trees on the left and