The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal (14755850906)
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Title: The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 Zenos, Andrew C. (Andrew Constantinides), 1855-1942, joint ed Willett, Herbert L. (Herbert Lockwood), 1864-1944, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago : The Howard-Severance company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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nt thereof. Israelis then addressed in the same style, and in chap,iii (after a brief rebuke of the twelve tribescollectively) its degenerate state is strikingly ii.i; iv:i 1 ; v:26; to agricultural or pastoral em-ployments and occurrences, i 13 ; ii :I3; iii:3- 12; iv :2, 9; v:iy; vii:i; ix :o, 13, 15; and to nationalinstitutions and customs, ii:8; iii:i5; iv 4; v :2i;vi .-4-6, 10; viii :s. 10, 14. Some peculiar expressions occur; such ascleanness of teeth, a parallelism to want ofbread, vi :6. God of Hosts is found only inAmos and the Psalms. The high places ofIsaac, vii:o; the house of Isaac, vii:i6. Hethat createth the wind, iv:i3. (2) The Canonicity of the Book. Thecanonicity of the book of Amos is amply sup-ported both by Jewish and Christian authorities.Philo, Josephus, and the Talmud include itamong the minor prophets. It is also in the cata-logues of Melito, Jerome, and the sixtieth canonof the Council of Laodicea. Justin Martyr, inhis Dialogue with Trypho (Sec. 22), quotes a
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Amphipcur. portrayed, and the denunciations of divine jus-tice are intermingled, like repeated thunderclaps,to the end of chap. vi. The seventh and eighthchapters contain various symbolical visions, witha brief historical episode (vii : 10-17). In theninth chapter the majesty of Jehovah and theterrors of his justice are set forth with a sub-limity of diction which rivals and partly copiesthat of the royal Psalmist (Comp. verses 2, 3, withPs. cix., and ver. 6 with Ps. civ.). Towards theclose the scene brightens, and from the eleventhverse to the end the promises of the divine, mercyand returning favor to the chosen race are ex-hibited in imagery of great beauty taken fromrural life. (1) Various Allusions. The allusions in thewritings of this prophet are numerous and varied;they refer to natural objects, as in iii -.4, 8; iv 7, 0;v:8; vi:i2; ix :3; to historical events, i:o, 11, 13; considerable pan of the fifth and sixth chapters,which hs introduces by saying, Hear how hespeaks concern