_HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] Second woe denounced. EASE] Recklessly and carelessly. MOUNT.] not in God. SAM.] Strong, which resisted for 3 years, and was the last city of Israel taken (2 Kings 17:5). CHIEF] in influence and office, Heb. men designated (Numbers 1:17; 1 Chronicles 12:31). CAME] for... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:2. PASS] Survey three neighbouring kingdoms. “If these kingdoms are not _better_ and _greater_ than yours, why do ye worship _their_ gods and forsake the _true_ God?” [_Elzas_]. AMOS 6:3. WOE] Charge first from a general and then a special view. PUT OFF] Lit. with aversion,... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:4.] Luxury added to oppression. STRETCH] Lit. pour themselves out, “dissolved, unnerved, in luxury and sloth.” BEDS] inlaid with ivory. LAMBS] Choice and delicious in the East. AMOS 6:5.] like David they employ themselves with music, but for a different aim. AMOS 6:6.] Not... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:7. HEAD] Chiefs in transgression must be _first_ in the procession to captivity. BANQUET] Lit. making merry with shouts. AMOS 6:8. SWORN] “Like ch. Amos 4:2, except that it is by _himself_ instead of by _his holiness_, but the sense is the same, for the _nephesh_ of Jehovah... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:12.] As horses and oxen are useless on a rock, so ye are incapable of fulfilling justice [_Grotius_]. The comparison indicates the folly of expecting prosperity while committing acts of injustice. The interrogative form gives strength to the representation. AMOS 6:13. NOUGH... [ Continue Reading ]