Was your retraction of Malachi 1:11 as proof of the Mass as sacrifice correct, since the Fathers used it?

I used to be more accepting of the Catholic tendency to engage in symbolic, figurative interpretation of Scripture. It can be good if rightly used, but it gets very sticky, because once you grant that you can spiritualize any figure in the Old Testament, how do you know you are doing it correctly? Paul does it once in Galatians 4 with Sarah and Hagar, but grace and law are two very big categories. When you get to Jerome and Augustine, some of their allegories tear my hair out. So the more I looked at Malachi 1:11, the more I realized I was doing the same thing, spiritualizing the text in the direction I wanted it to go because it mentioned sacrifice, to give more credence to the Catholic Mass. In the end I have to admit that Malachi 1:11 says nothing about the Catholic Mass. If you pay attention to the text, it is talking about that historical time and what the Jews were doing, and it fits perfectly into that historical context. We make it talk about the Mass because all you have to do is see the word sacrifice, but there is a big gap between what the Hebrew text actually says and what we make it say in our Catholic theology, and I do not want anyone accusing me of reading my theology into the text.