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Last of the prophets and of the collections of the Old Testament according to the Catholic canon of the Scriptures, Malachi allows the Lord of the Covenant agreed with Israel to speak in clarity and in riddles. Marked by Wisdom, he condenses the Torah and the Prophets, to find himself in the gospels and all the way into the Apocalypse passing through the letter to the Romans and to the Hebrews. The keystone between the Old and the New Testaments, the shortest and densest of the Twelve Minor Prophets sets forth his message by means of numerous stylistic formulations: the Lord of Esau and of Jacob loves the nations as much as his chosen people because he is the creator Father of the one as of the other.