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A Pun on Judgment
Commentators unanimously highlight a powerful wordplay in the original Hebrew. The word for “summer fruit” (qayits) sounds nearly identical to the word for “the end” (qêts). God uses this visual pun to make His message unmistakable: just as the summer fruit represents the end of the harvest season, Israel has reached the end of its time of grace.
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Amos
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Albert Barnes
On Amos 8:1–2
18th Century
Theologian
Thus has the Lord God shown me - After the sentence against Amaziah was pronounced, Amos resumed just where he had left off before Amaziah i…
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 8:1–2
19th Century
Bishop
The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable…
John Calvin
On Amos 8:1–2
16th Century
Theologian
By these words, or by this vision, the Prophet confirms what we have already observed: that paternal chastisements would no longer be exercised tow…
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John Gill
On Amos 8:2
17th Century
Pastor
And he said, Amos, what do you see ?
&c.] To quicken his attention, who might disregard it as a common thing; and in…
Matthew Henry
On Amos 8:1–3
17th Century
Minister
Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten, which signified that the people were ripe for destruction and that the year of G…