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Amos 5:17 - Exposition

Vineyards . The place of mirth and gladness, that, says St. Jerome, "ubi quondam fuit materia laetitiae, sit origo lacrymarum" ( Isaiah 16:10 ). I will pass through thee. A terrible echo of the last plague of Egypt ( Exodus 12:12 ), when God will not "pass over" thee as he did then, but treat thee as Egypt, and "pass through" to smite and punish ( Nahum 1:12 ).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Amos 5:17 - Exposition

Amos 5:17 - Exposition

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