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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:23

Verse 23 It follows, Take away from me the multitude of thy songs By speaking of multitude, he aims at hypocrites, who toil much in their devices without measure or end, as we see done at this day by those under the Papacy; for they accumulate endless forms of worship, and greatly weary themselves, morning and evening; in short, they spend days and nights in performing their ceremonies, and every one devises some new thing, and all these they heap together. Inasmuch, then, as men, when they... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:24

Verse 24 Interpreters variously expound this verse. To some it seems an exhortation, as though the Prophet said, “Ye thrust on me victims of beasts and various ceremonies; but I regard not these things; for the interior purity of heart alone pleases me: take away then all these things, which are of no moment with me, and bring what I especially require and demands even a pure and sincere heart.” Some also think that newness of life is here described by its fruits or its evidences: for the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18

The day of the Lord. Anycrisis in the nation's history is so called, when God interposes to punish and correct. To our minds it looks forward to the final judgment. It is often mentioned by the prophets ( e.g. Isaiah 2:12 ; Isaiah 13:6 , Isaiah 13:9 ; Joel 2:1 , Joel 2:11 ; Joel 3:18 ; Zephaniah 1:7 , Zephaniah 1:14 ) as a time when the heathen should be judged, all the enemies of Israel defeated, and when Israel herself was exalted to the highest pitch of prosperity and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-20

The day of the Lord the night of the impenitent. Divine judgments will be as sharp as they are sure. Sent in wrath, proportioned to guilt, falling on the vulnerable points, they are the least desirable of all imaginable things. The very thought of them should be sobering, and the sure prospect of them overwhelming. Now, the scoffer is the worst type of sinner, and will, in the nature of the case, be the greatest sufferer when judgment comes. He is at the same time the most utterly blinded... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-27

The prophet enforces the threat by denouncing woe on those that trust to their covenant relation to God, expecting the day when he would punish the heathen for their sakes, and thinking that external, heartless worship was acceptable to him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:19

Amos explains the dangers of this judgment day by illustrations drawn from pastoral life, equivalent to the rushing from Charybdis into Scylla. Every place is full of danger—the open country, the shelter of the house. Jerome applies the passage to the fate of the kingdom in general: "Fugientibus vobis a facie Nabuchodonosor leonis occurrent Medi, Persae, demum Antiochus Epiphanes, qui moretur in templo et vos instar colubri mordeat, nequaquam foris in Babylone, sed intra terminos terrae... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:19

Selfishness in terror. "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." The Israelites rested their hope of deliverance from every kind of foreign danger upon their outward connection with the covenant made with their forefathers; hence many put their trust in the days spoken of in the context, when Jehovah would judge all the heathen, expecting that he would then in all probability raise Israel to might... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:20

The character of the day of the Lord is enforced with reiterated earnestness ( Amos 5:18 ) by an appeal to the conscience of e hearers. Do you not feel in your inmost hearts that in the case of such guilt as yours the Lord can visit but to punish? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21

Outward, formal worship will not avert the threatened danger or secure the favour of God in the day of visitation. Your feast days ( chaggim ); your feasts ; your counterfeit worship, the worship of the true God under an idol symbol (compare God's repudiation of merely formal worship in Isaiah 1:11-15 ). I will not smell; οὐ μὴ ἀσφρανθῶ θυσίας . No sweet savour ascends to God from such sacrifices; so the phrase is equivalent to "I will not accept," "I will take no delight... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

The autograph of the unreal. Wicked Israel, strange to say, was worshipping Israel still. Theirs was sanctimonious sinning. It was done more or less in a religious connection. It was accompanied, and attempted to be covered, by an unstinted dressing of pietistic cant. But it only smelled the more rank to Heaven. Unreal worship is no mitigation, but only an aggravation, of the guilt of unholy living. I. INSINCERITY IS OFTEN SCRUPULOUS ABOUT ALL THE CIRCUMSTANTIALS OF ... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

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