Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Amos 5
P. "In Bethel." This place is specially mentioned as provoking the Divine anger. Chald. "Lett there be none to quench the fire on account of your sins, who worshipped idols in Bethel.**
Judgment, the sentence of lawful tribunals, is of itself agreeable to the general feeling of mankind, but when perverted, it is as wormwood, bitter and hateful. The prophet reproves the judges as unjust
Soph. 1 : 13. In punishment of their oppression of the poor, they are threatened with the Ion of their splendid mansions and fruitful vineyards.
Jer. 30 : 7 ; Joel 2 : 11 ; Soph. 1 : 15. The prophet seems to refer to those who possessed a desire that the appointed time of vengeance should come, through a confidence that the threats would not be fulfilled ; or who flattered themselves that the chastisements would be light and transient He assures them that the Divine visitation shall be attended with gloom and sorrow.
Isaiah 1 : 11 ; Jer. 6 : 20; Mai. 1 : 12. P. " Despise." God rejects all idolatrous assemblies. He also casts away all who unite sin with His worship.
The fat beasts which yon offer. " He examinee not the greatness of the sacrifices, but the merits and dispositions of those who offer them." St Jerome.
" He that is poor and prudent, when he shall see that the judge is bought over, will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time." St Jerome.
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