アモス書 8:9-12 JC

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

John Calvin

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:11

Verse 11 Here now the Prophet fulminates, for he denounces not temporal punishments, but final destruction, and what proves to be an evidence of reprobation, and that is, that God would deprive the Israelites of every light of truth, so that they would wander as the blind in the dark. It is indeed certain, that they had been before this time bereaved of sound doctrine; for falsehoods and superstitions prevailed among them; and we have seen that in the land of Israel the true and faithful... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:12

Verse 12 But it may be here asked, Why does he say that they should be so famished as to run here and there, and wander from sea to sea, from the south even to the east, since this ought to be counted as one of God’s favors; for what more grievous thing can happen to us, than that the Lord should render us stupid and unconcerned? But when we are touched with some desire for sound doctrine, it evidently appears that there is some religion in us; we are not destitute of the Spirit of God, though... 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 8:8-10

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

I will cause the sun to go down at noon. This is probably to be taken metaphorically of a sudden calamity occurring in the very height of seeming prosperity, such as the fate of Israel in Pekah's time, and Pekah's own murder ( 2 Kings 15:29 , 2 Kings 15:30 ; see also 2 Kings 17:1-6 ). A like metaphor is common enough; e.g. Joel 2:2 : Joel 3:15 ; Micah 3:6 ; Job 5:14 ; Isaiah 13:10 ; Jeremiah 15:9 . Hind calculates that there were two solar eclipses visible in Palestine in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

A sunset at noon. This language is at once prophetic and figurative. It predicts an event in the moral world under the figure of an analogous event in the physical world. The symbolical event is not an eclipse of the sun, which the language does not suit, but his going down at midday; and the event symbolized is clearly death in the midst of young life. Israel was rich and prosperous and young. To all outward seeming she was just in the meridian of her life. But her sun would never reach... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, etc. (comp. Amos 8:3 : Amos 5:16 , Amos 5:17 ; Lamentations 5:15 ; Hosea 2:11 ; Tobit 2:6). Sackcloth . A token of mourning ( 1 Kings 20:31 ; Isaiah 15:3 ; Joel 1:8 , Joel 1:13 ). Baldness. On shaving the head as a sign of mourning, see note on Micah 1:16 ; and comp. Job 1:20 ; Isaiah 3:24 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ). I will make it; Ponam eam (Vulgate); sc . terram . But it is better to... read more

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

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