アモス書 8:7-10 JCB

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

Verse 8 He confirms what the last verse contains in other words: and the question is emphatical, for it is a double affirmation. A question, we know, is usually put, when there is no measure of doubt on the subject. God then asks here as of a thing certain, how they could remain in safety, who had so perverted every thing right and just, who had violated all equity, who were influenced by no feelings of humanity, — how could such continue safe? It was impossible. We hence see why the Prophet... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:9

Verse 9 The Prophet speaks here metaphorically of the punishments which were then to the people nigh at hand: and as prosperity and success deceived the Israelites, the Prophet makes use of this significative mode of speaking: “Ye congratulate yourselves on account of your wealth and other things which delight you, as though God could not turn light into darkness; and as God spares you, ye think that it will ever be the same with you; but God can, he says, turn light into darkness: a dark night... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:10

Verse 10 The Prophet pursues the same subject; but he omits the figurative mode which he had before adopted. He therefore denounces vengeance more openly, — that God would turn their festal-days into mourning, and their songs into lamentation. This was designedly mentioned; for the Israelites, we know, flattered themselves on account of their ceremonies by which at the same time they more and more provoked God’s displeasure: for the worship of God, which they pretended to perform, was mere... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

§ 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed of the chieftains (verses 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (verses 11-14). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

Avarice. "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land. to fail," etc. The prophet here resumes his denunciatory discourse to the avaricious oppressors of the people. The verses may be taken as God's homily to greedy men. "Hear this." Hush! pay attention to what I am going to say. Listen, "ye that swallow up the needy." The words suggest three remarks concerning avarice. I. IT IS EXECRABLE IN ITS SPIRIT . 1 . It is sacrilegious. "When... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

Such crimes as these, which sap the very foundations of social life, shall meet with vengeance. The Excellency of Jacob. This is a title of God himself, as in Hosea 5:5 ; Hosea 7:10 , where it is rendered "pride." Thus the Lord is said to swear by his holiness ( Amos 4:2 ), by his soul. So here he swears by himself, who is the Glory and Pride of Israel; as truly as he is this, he will punish. The Vulgate treats the sentence differently, Juravit in superbium Jacob, i.e. "The Lord hath... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

Confirming by an oath. God's judgments sometimes take, and will continue to take, the wicked by surprise ( Matthew 24:36-39 ). But this need not be, and should not be, and can be only where blindness, or heedlessness, or incredulity make warning useless. God always warns before he strikes. Sometimes he warns by divers methods at once. Often he warns again and again. Invariably he warns with a solemnity that makes disbelief a crime and stupid. Here is a case in point. I. THE OATH ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

The mercy of God. This language is actual truth, although it is based upon and accords with the experience of created intelligences. Memory is one of the primitive endowments of intellect, admitted to be such even by philosophers, who are very loth to admit that the mind of man can possess any such endowments. A man who should never forget would indeed be a marvel, a miracle. But it would be inconsistent with our highest conceptions of God to suppose it possible for anything to escape his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this? "This" is the coming judgment, or the oath with which God announced it in the previous verse and the prophet asks, "Shall not the land tremble as with an earthquake when the Lord comes to judgement?" The LXX ; rendering ἐπὶ τούτοις , takes the reference to be to the "works" or sins of the people ( Amos 8:7 ); but the thought in these two verses is the punishment of the transgressions, not the transgressors themselves. And it shall rise up wholly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

Carried away as with a flood. A man in earnest is always graphic. If he be also inspired he can afford to be explicit. In this passage Amos is both. The words were spoken before the convulsions they foretell, and written after some of them had occurred. But the descriptions of events, transpired between the speaking and the writing, have no flavour of an ex post facto deliverance. There is a bare record of the original verbal utterance without the attempt to write into any part of it... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

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