Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Amos 4:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 100, footnote 12 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1472 (In-Text, Margin)

... gradations from one to fifteen form the steps to which there is a mystical allusion in the “psalms of degrees.” Amos, although he is only “an herdman” from the country, “a gatherer of sycomore fruit,” cannot be explained in a few words. For who can adequately speak of the three transgressions and the four of Damascus, of Gaza, of Tyre, of Idumæa, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, and in the seventh and eighth place of Judah and of Israel? He speaks to the fat kine that are in the mountain of Samaria,[Amos 4:1] and bears witness that the great house and the little house shall fall. He sees now the maker of the grasshopper, now the Lord, standing upon a wall daubed or made of adamant, now a basket of apples that brings doom to the transgressors, and now a ...