Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Amos 7:12

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 220, footnote 8 (Image)

Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome

The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret. (HTML)

Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus. (HTML)

The Impassible. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1428 (In-Text, Margin)

Orth. —And again when we hear Amaziah saying to the prophet Amos, “Oh thou seer go flee away into the land of Judah,”[Amos 7:12] and Saul enquiring: “Tell me I pray thee where the seer’s house is,” we understand nothing bodily.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 54, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Marcella. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 862 (In-Text, Margin)

... order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evil-doing. Isaiah goes naked without blushing as a type of captivity to come. Jeremiah is sent from Jerusalem to the Euphrates (a river in Mesopotamia), and leaves his girdle to be marred in the Chaldæan camp, among the Assyrians hostile to his people. Ezekiel is told to eat bread made of mingled seeds and sprinkled with the dung of men and cattle. He has to see his wife die without shedding a tear. Amos is driven from Samaria.[Amos 7:12-13] Why is he driven from it? Surely in this case as in the others, because he was a spiritual surgeon, who cut away the parts diseased by sin and urged men to repentance. The apostle Paul says: “Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the ...