Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
Amos 8
Supra 7:8. I will spare ihem no longer. " The meaning is that He will no longer pass over, or disregard the iniquities of His people, or suffer their crimes to remain unpunished." St Jerome.
P. " Be howlings." 8t. Jerome understood the text figufatively of the screaking of the hinges of the temple gates, as if sensible of the general calamities.
Michael!* favor* thi* interpretation, which is supported bj a cognate term In Arabic. St Jerome explains it after this manner : " As the branches of trees are drawn down with a hook in order to pluck the fruit, so I have drawn on the impending captivity." P. u A basket of summer fruit"
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