The 1662 Book of Common Prayer appoints Malachi 3:1-5 as the epistle for the Presentation of Christ, and that reading is retained in American prayer books through BCP 1928. Verse 5 drops out, however, in BCP 1979 and BCP 2019 (ACNA).
Tomorrow is the feast of the Presentation of Christ. The reading for the epistle is a warning of judgment, and it anticipates one of the curses in the Commination: "Cursed is he that perverteth the judgement of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow. Amen."
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