아모스 5:18-24, 마태복음 25:1-13 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

Ceremonialism disdained. Although the Jewish religion prescribed, as is evident especially from the Book of Leviticus, innumerable observances, elaborate ritual, frequent and costly sacrifices, still nowhere are there to be found more disclaimers, more denunciations, of a merely ritual and ceremonial piety than in the Scriptures of the Old Testament. This is but one of many declarations that the true and living God will not accept any tribute of the hands which may be offered in lieu of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-24

The divinely abhorrer and the divinely demanded. "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies," etc. Notice - I. THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT . What is that? Mere ceremonial religion; empty ritual. "I hate, I despise your feast days, and 1 will not smell in your solemn assemblies," etc. "The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Israelites which Jehovah here expresses he afterwards employed Isaiah to declare... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:22

They maintained the formal ritual of the Mosaic worship in their idolatry. The various offerings are here enumerated. Burnt offerings; ὁλοκαυτώματα ( Exodus 29:38 , Exodus 29:42 ; Numbers 28:9-11 ). Meat offerings ; θυσίας ; munera (Vulgate); Exodus 29:40 , Exodus 29:41 ; Le Exodus 2:1 . Peace offerings of your fat beasts; σωτηρίους ἐπιφανείας , "your grand peace offerings"; vota pinguium vestrorum (Vulgate); Le Exodus 3:1 , etc. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:23

The noise of thy songs. Their psalms and hymns of praise were mere noise in God's ear, and wearied him ( Isaiah 1:14 ; Isaiah 24:8 ; Ezekiel 26:13 ). Viols ( Amos 6:5 ); ὀργάνων . The nebel, usually translated "psaltery," was a kind of harp. Josephus ('Ant.,' 7.12. 3) describes it as having twelve strings, played by the fingers. Music, both instrumental and vocal, was used in the temple worship (see 1 Chronicles 16:42 ; 1 Chronicles 23:5 ; and 25.). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

But let judgment run down as waters; let judgment roll on ; Septuagint, καὶ κυλισθήσεται ὡς ὕδωρ κρίμα , "and judgment shall roll along as water." Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium (Vulgate). This verse has been explained in different ways. Hitzig, Keil, with many ancient commentators, find in it a threat of chastisement, "the flooding of the land with judgment and the punitive righteousness of God." Pusey, Professor Gandell, and others consider it to be a call to amendment.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

Real calamity waiting upon unreal service. "The meaning of this verse is not, 'Let justice and righteousness take the place of your sacrifices.'… The verse threatens the flooding of the land with judgment and the punitive righteousness of God" (Keil). Adopting this interpretation, we observe— I. THAT WHICH IS REJECTED " IS NIGH UNTO CURSING ." Hollow service has been sitting for its portrait, and the picture is striking. Now we have the Divine appraisement revealed in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

The river of righteousness. Whilst the holy King and Judge rejects the mere service of the lip and of the hand, when unaccompanied by genuine piety, he desires above all things the prevalence of those practical principles of rectitude which are the secret, hidden power of an upright and acceptable life. In a very bold and beautiful metaphor the Divine wish and pleasure are declared. Let the hypocritical festivals, the unmeaning sacrifices, the hollow songs, be swept away, and let the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:18

Woe unto you that desire - for yourselves.The Day of the Lord - There were “mockers in those days” 2 Peter 3:3-4; Jude 1:18, as there are now, and as there shall be in the last. And as the “scoffers in the last days” 2 Peter 3:3-4; Jude 1:18 shall say, “Where is the promise of His coming?” so these said, “let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we way see it, and let the council of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it” Isaiah 5:19. Jeremiah complained; “they say... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:19

As if a man, did flee from a lion - The Day of the Lord is a day of terror on every side. Before and behind, without and within, abroad under the roof of heaven, or under the shelter of his own, everywhere is terror and death. The Syrian bear is said to have been more fierce and savage than the lion. For its fierceness and voracity Daniel 7:5, God made it, in Daniel’s vision, a symbol of the empire of the Medes. From both lion and bear there might be escape by flight. When the man had “leaned... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:20

Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience and guilty fears anticipate, and then appeals to their own consciences, “is it not so, as I have said?” People’s consciences are truer than their intellect. However, they may employ the subtlety of their intellect to dull their conscience, they feel, in their heart of hearts, that there is a Judge, that guilt is punished, that they are guilty. The soul is a... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:20

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