And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Quand vous offrez en sacrifice une bête aveugle, n'est-ce pas mal? Quand vous en offrez une boiteuse ou infirme, n'est-ce pas mal? Offre-la donc à ton gouverneur! Te recevra-t-il bien, te fera-t-il bon accueil? Dit l'Eternel des armées.
KJV
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ot lawful to make an oblation of whatever we possess lawfully. Objection 3: Further, it is written ( Malachi 1:8 ): "If you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil?" Yet an animal though lame or sick is a lawful possession. Therefore it would seem that not of every lawful pos…
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