Mal 3:1-3
The Latin:
Ecce ego mitto ángelum meum, et præparábit viam ante fáciem meam : et statim véniet ad templum suum Dominátor quem vos quǽritis, et ángelus testaménti quem vos vultis. Ecce venit, dicit Dóminus exercítuum. Et quis póterit cogitáre diem advéntus eíus, et quis stabit ad vidéndum eum ? ipse enim quasi ignis conflans, et quasi herba fullónum : et sedébit conflans, et emúndans argéntum : et purgábit fílios Levi, et colábit eos quasi aurum et quasi argéntum, et erunt Dómino offeréntes sacrifícia in iustítia.
The English:
Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts. And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb: And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
