He said that he was only a "Voice," preparing the way for the Messiah, as Isaiah had prophesied centuries before, and the "Messenger" that had been promised through Malachi.
"Child's Story of the Bible"
Mary A. Lathbury
By a quiet and Job-like endurance of all manner of taunting suspicions, and unmerited sarcasms, to which I daily became more reconciled, I absolutely rose into something like favour; and before the first month of my banishment expired, had got the length of an invitation to tea, in her own snuggery-an honour never known to be bestowed on any before, with the exception of Father Malachi Brennan, her ghostly adviser; and even he, it is said, never ventured on such an approximation to intimacy, until he was, in Kilrush phrase, "half screwed," thereby meaning more than half tipsy.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
You know Father Malachi, of course, Mr. Lorrequer?
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)