In the most familiar form of the Old Testament Malachi is the last book, and assuch it has often been given a special status in Christian eyes. It is seen aspointing forward to the New Testament, which follows immediately in mostversions of the Protestant Bible, which have usually not included the Apocrypha.Hence Malachi came to be regarded as standing at the beginning of the“ inter-testamental period.” This was a widespread motif in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries; for example, the very popular book by HumphreyCoggins_c06.indd 186 6/9/2011 3:30:50 PM
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