This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...grieved, sick, when the people are broken--as, for example, by social injustice. But the leaders and statesmen of those days did not care. 1 A very simple and apparently necessary change in the text yields this meaning. Therefore says Amos: those who have breathed the atmosphere of Amos learn to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...grieved, sick, when the people are broken--as, for example, by social injustice. But the leaders and statesmen of those days did not care. 1 A very simple and apparently necessary change in the text yields this meaning. Therefore says Amos: those who have breathed the atmosphere of Amos learn to tremble when he utters his "therefore," for they know that something terrible is coming. "Therefore they shall go captive with the first that go captive." Here again there is a bitter ironical allusion to their conceited designation of Israel as the foremost nation, and to their effeminate indulgence in the choicest perfumes. So be it, says the prophet, in his grim way: foremost in empire, foremost in foppery, foremost therefore in destruction. Then, when they are marched off in dismal procession to the miseries of exile, "the riot of the revellers shall depart," says Amos in the alliterative way of Hebrew prophecy; and, when the land has been swept clear of them, the silence would fall like music on the prophet's indignant heart. Such a civilization as Amos has just so vividly described could only end in one way; and he represents Jehovah as solemnly swearing by Himself--He can swear by none greater--that He will deliver up the wicked city (Amos is thinking, no doubt, chiefly of the capital), and all that is in it, to the ravages of the invader. The mention of so solemn an oath always shows that the soul of the prophet is very deeply moved. Once before we met a similar oath, --when Amos threatened the cruel women of Samaria for crushing the poor in order to supply themselves with money for strong drink (iv. 2). Nothing rouses Amos's wrath like that; and we may be sure that his soul is at white heat here, as, with equal solemnity, he announces the...
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Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Apparent first printing, 1912 on title page. Burgundy cloth with bright gilt lettering and trim on front cover, faded gilt lettering on spine. Corners and spine ends somewhat bumped and rubbed, spine lightly sunned with some other wear damaging the title lettering, light sticker residue on a small area of both boards near the spine. Page edges somewhat tanned. Ex-seminary-library with the usual indications. Binding tight, pages lightly tanned but clean, some pencil marks in the first two chapters. 151 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.
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