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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:21

Verse 21 Here the Prophet, anticipating an objection, shows that the Israelites deceived themselves, for they believed that God was pacified by their sacrifices: he declares all these to be useless; not only, as I think, because they themselves were impure; but because all their sacrifices were mere profanations. We have said elsewhere that sacrifices are often reprehended by the Prophets, when not accompanied by godliness and sincerity: for why did God command sacrifices to be offered to him... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:22

Verse 22 When ye offer me sacrifices and your gift, etc. מנחה, meneche, properly means a gift of flour, which was an addition to the sacrifice; but it is often taken generally for any kind of offering. It is indeed certain that the Prophet meant, that however much the Israelites accumulated their ritual observances, they did nothing towards appeasing God, inasmuch as they observed not the law that was given them; and they turned also to a wrong purpose their sacrifices; for they did not... read more

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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

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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

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:25

Verse 25 The Prophet shows in this place, that he not only reproved hypocrisy in the Israelites in obtruding on God only external display of ceremonies without any true religion in the heart; but that he also condemned them for having departed from the rule of the law. He also shows that this was not a new disease among the people of Israel; for immediately at the beginning their fathers mixed such a leaven as vitiated the worship of God. He therefore proves that the Israelites had ever been... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:26

Verse 26 It now follows, And ye have carried Sicuth your king. This place, we know, is quoted by Stephen Acts 7:42 : but he followed the Greek version; and the Greek translator, whoever he was, was mistaken as to the word, Sicuth, and read, Sucoth, and thought the name an appellative of the plural number, and supposed it to be derived from סוך suk, which means a tabernacle; for he translated it σκήνην as if it was said, “Ye bore the tabernacle of your king instead of the ark.” But it was a... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:27

Verse 27 Here the Prophet at last denounces exile on the Israelites as though he had said that God would not suffer them any longer to contaminate the Holy Land, which had been given them as an heritage, on the condition that they acknowledged him as the only true God. God had now, for a long time, borne with the Israelites though they had never ceased to pollute his land with superstitions. He comes now to cleanse it. I will cause you, he says, to migrate beyond Damascus; for they thought that... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16

Therefore . The prophet returns to what was said in Amos 5:13 about the uselessness of reproof; yore. 14 and 15 being a kind of parenthetical exhortation which his love for his nation forced from him. "Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord," Adonai, saith what follows, these solemn titles being used to add solemnity, certainty, and weight to the announcement. Wailing ; misped, "the death wail." Streets ; broad places ; πλατείαις ; plateis (Vulgate). Highways ; the narrower... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The retribution for their incorrigible iniquity is here announced. For "they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God" (Wis. 12:26). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The track of the destroyer. Each name of God is a guarantor of his action. It expresses a character, or relation, or operation, in which he thereby reveals himself. The multiplication of his names and titles here is a cumulative argument for the sureness of the matter revealed. He who is God of hosts or the Omnipotent One, Lord or the Absolute One, and Jehovah or the Self-existent One, is the Being with whom to decide is to act, and to will is to accomplish. Of the deliverance so... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:22

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

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