Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Amos 8:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 254, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3170 (In-Text, Margin)

... and watch the hardships of the seasons, in order to grow prosperous, and luxuriate in the misfor tunes of others, and acquire, not, like Joseph, the property of the Egyptians, as a part of a wide policy, (for he could both collect and supply corn duly, as he also could foresee the famine, and provide against it afar off,) but the property of their fellow countrymen in an illegal manner, for they say, “When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell, and the sabbaths, that we may open our stores?”[Amos 8:5] And they corrupt justice with divers measures and balances, and draw upon themselves the ephah of lead. What shall we say to these things who know no limit to our getting, who worship gold and silver, as those of old worshipped Baal, and Astarte and ...