The Pulpit Commentary — Amos — Section 176

of tho yoko In Iso. lviil. 6; for" the bunch" them by affliction e.nd persecution, thA.t of hyssop in Exod. xii. 22, Bo tue Vulgate the evil may fall to the ground Bnd hero ronders / asoicul1J1111 au"m, with the perish, and the good be preserved. The notion that the stories or chambers just word rendered "sift" implies " to she.ke t,, mcntionod nre bound together to connect and fro;" and this shaking shall show who heaven and earth. Bat the clause means, are the true Isre.eli tee and who are the fahe, God ho.th founded the vault or firmament of who retain their fe.ith e.nd cleave to the Lord heaven upon (not in) the earth, where his under all difficulties, and who lose their hold throne is placed, and whenoe he sends the of true religion and assimilate themselves rain. The Septuagint renders, -r¾v l1ta.r,•- to the heathen e.mong whom they dwell. l\.(a.v a.hou, "his promiB0." Bo the Syrie.o. These last shall not return from captivity. The water■ of the sea. The referonoe is to The lee.et grain; Hebrew, tseror," pebble;" the Deluge (eh. v. 8; Gen. vii. 4. 11). so the Vulge.te, lapil.lll,/J; Septuagi □t, rr6v- Ver. 7.-Iero.el's election to be God's -rp,µ.µ.a, "fragment." It is nsed in 2 Sam. xvi i. poople should not save them, unless their 13 of small stones in a building; here e.s he.rd conduct corresponded with (1otl's choice. gratn in distinction from loose cha.ff (Keil). If they obeyed not, they were no better in 'fhe solid grain, the good wheat, are the hie eyes than the heathen, their deli very righteoua, who, when the chaff 11nd duet a.re from Egypt had no more eignificanoe than cast away,are stored in the heavenly gamer, the migration of pagan nations. Here is a prove themselves of the election, and inherit contrast to eh. vi. 1, etc. The children of the promises (comp. Isa. vi. 13; Ezek. xx. Israel were now no dearer than the ohildren 38 : Matt. iii. 12). :ran upon the earth; i.e. of the Ethiopians (Oushites). The Cushites perish, be lost (1 8am. xxvi. 20). e.re introduced e.s being desoendants of the Ver. 10.-If any are to be saved, it will wicked Ham, e.nd ble.ok in complexion (e.s not be the sinners; they need not fia.tter J er. xiii. 23), the colour of their skin being themselves that their wilful blindness she.11 considered a mark of degrad11tion and of secure them. The evil shall not overtake. evil ohare.oter. The l'hilistines from Caphtor; They lulled themselves into a false security, fr<nn Cappadocia (LXX. and Vulgate). This and shut their ea.re a.ga.inet the warnings of rendering is mistaken. The immigre.tion the prophets; bnt that would e.vail them spoken of took ple.oe before the Exodus ( see nothing. Prevent; come upon soddenly, Deut. ii. 23; Jer. xlvii. 4); and Caphtor is surprise. either Crete (eee Dillman on Gen. x. 14) or Vere. 11-15.-Part IV. E..:.LOGUE. TB..E the ooe.et-land of the Delta, "which w1111 occupied from an early period by Phrenician EsTABLISBJIIENT OJ' THE NEW KJNGDOll AND colonists, and thus co.me to be known to the THl!I REIGN 01!' l'dEsSlllL Tlll!I KINGDOM Egyptians as Keft ur, or •gree.ter Phrenicia,' SHALL EMBRACE ALL NATIONS (vers. u, Kort being the Egyptian name of P hrenicia " 12), SB.ALL BE EliBICBED WITH SUPER• (Monthly Interpreter, iii. 136). Medimve.l AllUND.A.NT SPIBITUA.L BLESIIINGB (vers. 13, Jewish writers identified it with De.mietta (Conder, • Handbook to the Bible,' p. 237). 14), AND SHALL ENDURE FOB EVER (ver. 15). The 8:,rians (.A.ram, Hebrew) from Xir; -robs Ver. 11.-In that day. When the judg- 'Jl6pous ;,. {Jo9pou, "the Syrians out :of the ment has fallen. The passage is quoted by ditch" (Septuagint): Syros de Oyrene (Vul- St. James (Acts xv.16, 27), mostly from the gate); see note on oh. i. 5. "Amm" here Greek, in confirmation of the doctrine that probably means the Damascenes, De.mascus the Church of Goel is open to all, whether shortly before the time of Moses having been Jew or Gentile. The tabernaale (rukkah); occupied by a powerful body of immigrants hut, or tent (as Jonah iv. 5); no pale.ea from Armenie. (Ewald, • Hist. of Isro.el,' i. now, but fallen to low estate, a "little 286, 311, Eng. transl.). house" (oh. vi.11). The prophet refers pro- Ver. 8.-The sin.tu.I. kingdom, The king- b11hly to the fall of the kingdom of David dom of all Israel and Jude.b, the same as in the ruin wrought by the Chaldeaas. the houe of .Jacob jlllit below, though a Interpreted spiritually, the passa,,"'0 shadows different fate awaits this, regarded as the forth the universal Ohurch of Obrist, raised coveno.ut nation, who80 are the promises. from that of the Jews. Pusey notes that Destroy it, etc., es wee threatoned (Deut. in the Talmud Christ ia callO<l "the Son vi. 15). Saving that. In spite of the de- of the fallen." The breaohes. The house of struction of the wir ked people, God's pro- David h11d sustained breaobes under the mises hold good, and there is still a rem- he.nds of Jeroboam and Joaeh, and in un.nt who slmll be saved (Jer. xxx. 11). the severance of the ten tribes at the hands Ver. 9.-l!'or, lo I Ho oxple.ins how ancl of ABByrie.ns and Chaldees; these should why the whole uatiou is not destroyed. I be repiilied. Unity shoulcl be restored, the will sift. Israel is to be <lispersed o.mong co.pti ves shoulcl return, e.nd o.uother king- the no.tions, tried o.nd wi1.1nowod 1unong dum should he establishe<l under another AMOS, ~ 178 THE BOOK OF AMOS. [on. 1x. 1-15.