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God is Not a Concept
Commentators like Calvin and Barnes explain that Amos describes God's cosmic power to correct Israel's shallow worship. They had reduced God to a manageable concept or mixed Him with nature worship. Amos reminds them to seek the personal, all-powerful Creator of the stars and seasons, whose majesty cannot be appeased by empty rituals. This calls us to worship God as He truly is, not as a comfortable idea we've created.
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Albert Barnes
On Amos 5:8
18th Century
Theologian
Seek Him that maketh the seven stars - Misbelief erases the thought of God as He is. It retains the name God, but means something quite diff…
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 5:8
19th Century
Bishop
Connected by the English Version with Amos 5:6 through the verb seek ye, so that it may thus be linked to Amos 5:7. To regard it as a sole…
Charles Spurgeon
On Amos 5:8–9
19th Century
Preacher
And turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upo…
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John Calvin
On Amos 5:8
16th Century
Theologian
Some interpreters connect this verse with the previous one and think that what the Prophet had said before is explained here. However, they are gre…
John Gill
On Amos 5:8
17th Century
Pastor
[Seek him] that makes the seven stars Which some connect with the preceding words, without a supplement, "they leave righ…
Matthew Henry
On Amos 5:7–17
17th Century
Minister
The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of…