The seven stars] RV 'the Pleiades,' lit. 'the heap.' The shadow of death] RM 'deep darkness,' is better.

10. The subject of Amos 5:7 is now resumed: they who turn justice into wormwood, etc., hate in the gate the man who reproves injustice. The gate is the broad, open space before the city wall, where all business is discussed and justice is supposed to be administered: cp. Amos 5:12.

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