 | Hart Simonds - 1822 - 334 pàgines
...IT stands in Amos, ii. 6. " Thus saith the LORD ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for foarj I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." From this verse the Sophists lead a proof in favour of their Messiah ; for they assert, that the Prophet... | |
 | William Sewel - 1823 - 704 pàgines
...from sacred writ ; as from Amos, ii. 6, where the judgments of God are denounced against those who sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; and from Levit. xxv. 43, where the making the children of Israel bondmen, is expressly forhidden;... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pàgines
...wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights. It puts men upon ways of oppression, and selling the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. I know not any sin in the world, but this sin of self-seeking will put men upon it, though it be their... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1825 - 472 pàgines
...accused of , the grossest injustice, the meanest covetousness, and the most revolting licentiousness. " Thus saith the Lord ; for three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes : that pant after the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pàgines
...favour the cause of one of the parties in a law-suit : " They sold," says the indignant prophet, " the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." But though presents of very little value, as a pair of sandals or a flower, are sometimes received,... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 566 pàgines
...now practised in the examples, or rather, enormities of the Roman senate and bishops: Thus Amos ii, 6, " Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" (that is, as the Hebrew has it, for money and for corn ;) Avho pant after the dust of the earth on... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pàgines
...practised in the examples, or rather, enormities of the Roman senate and bishops. 76 Thus Amos ii. 6, " Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" (that is, as the Hebrew has it, for money and for corn ;) who pant after the dust of the earth on the... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pàgines
...have walked : 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 IT Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Israel,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | John D. Paxton - 1833 - 228 pàgines
...slavery. Slavery, as practised by Israel, is clearly represented as sinful, and deserving of punishment. "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumult and the oppression in... | |
 | Willem Sewel - 1833 - 474 pàgines
...from sacred writ, as from Amos ii. 6. where the judgments of God are , denounced against those who sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; and from Levit. xxv. 42, where the making the children of Israel bondmen, is expressly forbidden... | |
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Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes... 
