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<div2 id="Amos.i" n="i" next="Amos.ii" prev="Amos" progress="81.22%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Amos.i-p0.1">Amos</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Amos.i-Page_1224" n="1224"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Amos.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Amos.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Amos.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Amos.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Amos.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
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<h2 id="Amos.i-p1.4">A M O S.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Amos.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Amos.i-p2.1">Though</span> this
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prophet appeared a little before Isaiah, yet he was not, as some
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have mistaken, that Amos who was the father of Isaiah (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Isa.1.1" parsed="|Isa|1|1|0|0" passage="Isa 1:1">Isa. i. 1</scripRef>), for in the Hebrew their
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names are very different; their families too were of a different
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character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a country-farmer. Amos
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signifies a <i>burden,</i> whence the Jews have a tradition that he
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was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips; we may rather,
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in allusion to his name, say that his speech was <i>weighty</i> and
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his word the <i>burden of the Lord.</i> He was (as most think) of
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Judah, yet prophesied chiefly against Israel, and at Bethel,
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<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Amos.7.13" parsed="|Amos|7|13|0|0" passage="Am 7:13"><i>ch.</i> vii. 13</scripRef>. Some
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think his style savours of his extraction, and is more plain and
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rustic than that of some other of the prophets; I do not see it so;
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but it is plain that his matter agreed with that of his
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contemporary Hosea, that <i>out of the mouth of these two witnesses
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the word might be established.</i> It appears by his contest with
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Amaziah the priest of Bethel that he met with opposition in his
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work, but was a man of undaunted resolution in it, faithful and
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bold in reproving sin and denouncing the judgments of God for it,
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and pressing in his exhortations to repentance and reformation. He
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begins with threatenings against the neighbouring nations that were
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enemies to Israel, <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Amos.1.1-Amos.2.32" parsed="|Amos|1|1|2|32" passage="Am 1:1-2:32"><i>ch.</i> i.
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and ii.</scripRef> He then calls Israel to account, and judges them
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for their idolatry, their unworthy walking under the favours God
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had bestowed upon them, and their incorrigibleness under his
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judgments, <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Amos.3.1-Amos.4.13" parsed="|Amos|3|1|4|13" passage="Am 3:1-4:13"><i>ch.</i> iii. and
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iv.</scripRef> He calls them to repentance ( <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.6" osisRef="Bible:Amos.5.1-Amos.5.27" parsed="|Amos|5|1|5|27" passage="Am 5:1-27"><i>ch.</i> v.</scripRef>), rejecting their hypocritical
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sacrifices unless they did repent. He foretels the desolations that
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were coming upon them notwithstanding their security (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.7" osisRef="Bible:Amos.6.1-Amos.6.14" parsed="|Amos|6|1|6|14" passage="Am 6:1-14"><i>ch.</i> vi.</scripRef>), some particular
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judgments (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.8" osisRef="Bible:Amos.7.1-Amos.7.17" parsed="|Amos|7|1|7|17" passage="Am 7:1-17"><i>ch.</i>
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vii.</scripRef>), particularly on Amaziah; and, after other
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reproofs and threatenings (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.9" osisRef="Bible:Amos.8.1-Amos.9.15" parsed="|Amos|8|1|9|15" passage="Am 8:1-9:15"><i>ch.</i> viii. and ix.</scripRef>), concludes with
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a promise of the setting up of the Messiah's kingdom and the
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happiness of God's spiritual Israel therein, just as the prophecy
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of Joel concluded. These prophets, having opened the wound in their
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reproofs and threatenings, which show all wrong, in the promises of
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gospel-grace open the remedy, which alone will set all to
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rights.</p>
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</div2>
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