Amos 5 in the early church
82 passages quote, allude to, or echo Amos 5, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
Verses: 1 · 2 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27
Amos 5:1
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:1–2 | Demonstration of the Gospel 4.16.30 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Amos 5:2
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:2 | Prophetic Extracts 1.15 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | before 325 (probably ca. 310–320) |
| Amos 5:2 | Demonstration of the Gospel 4.16.33 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
| Amos 5:2 | Demonstration of the Gospel 6.18.26 · Eusebius of Caesarea | echo, medium confidence | ca. 314–324 |
| Amos 5:2 | Demonstration 19.5 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:2 | Letter 22.5 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Amos 5:6
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:6 | To Demetrian 23 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | 252–253 |
Amos 5:7
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:7 | On Saint Athanasius 1.35 · Lucifer of Cagliari | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 356–361 |
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:8 | On First Principles 3.6.7 · Origen | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398) |
| Amos 5:8 | Res. 2.27 · Methodius of Olympus | quotation, high confidence | late 3rd cent. (disputed) |
| Amos 5:8 | Eleven Tractates 1.28 · Priscillian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380–385 |
| Amos 5:8 | Eleven Tractates 5.84 · Priscillian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380–385 |
| Amos 5:8 | Homily 15.2 on 1 Timothy · John Chrysostom | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 392-397 |
| Amos 5:8 | Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis 14 · Augustine of Hippo | quotation, high confidence | ca. 393 |
| Amos 5:8 | On the Trinity 3.5 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | ca. 399–419 |
| Amos 5:8 | Apologetic Book 19.6 · Orosius | quotation, high confidence | ca. 415–416 |
| Amos 5:8 | The Conferences 12.12 · John Cassian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 426–429 |
Amos 5:10
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:10 | On Modesty 8 · Tertullian | allusion, high confidence | ca. 210–220 |
| Amos 5:10 | Commentary on Matthew 12.13 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 246–248 |
| Amos 5:10 | Against Marcellus 2.2.10 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 336–337 |
| Amos 5:10 | On Ecclesiastical Theology 2.24.2 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 337–339 |
| Amos 5:10 | On Ecclesiastical Theology 2.24.3 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 337–339 |
| Amos 5:10 | Homilies on the Psalms 33.14 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360-378 |
| Amos 5:10 | Oration 2.20 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 5:10 | Oration 16.18 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 5:10 | Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.58.2 · Ambrose | allusion, high confidence | ca. 387-397 |
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:11 | Demonstration 20.13 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
Amos 5:12
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:12 | Oration 16.18 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Amos 5:13
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:13 | Miscellanies 6.15.115 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Amos 5:13 | Homilies on Psalms 36-38 3.10 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Amos 5:13 | Oration 2.39 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 5:13 | Letter 134.1 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Amos 5:13 | On the Holy Spirit 30.78 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 374–375 |
| Amos 5:13 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.70 · Jerome | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Amos 5:14
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:14 | On Fleeing the World 35 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 387-391 |
Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:15 | On Fleeing the World 35 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 387-391 |
Amos 5:16
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:16 | Demonstration 19.5 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
Amos 5:18
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
Amos 5:19
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:19 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.2 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:19 | Heads against Gaius, fragment I (on Rev 8:8) · Hippolytus of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 200-235 |
| Amos 5:19 | Commentary on Daniel 4.21 · Hippolytus of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 202-204 |
| Amos 5:19 | Commentary on Romans 2.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406) |
| Amos 5:19 | Letter 118.2 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Amos 5:20
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:20 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.2 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:20 | Commentary on Daniel 4.21 · Hippolytus of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 202-204 |
| Amos 5:20 | Commentary on Romans 2.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406) |
Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:21 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.2 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:21 | Against Marcion 5.4 · Tertullian | quotation, high confidence | 207/208 (third edition, completed later) |
| Amos 5:21 | Commentary on John 28.228 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 230–248 |
| Amos 5:21 | Commentary on John 28.230 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 230–248 |
| Amos 5:21 | Demonstration 2.6 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:21–22 | Demonstration 15.6 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:21–22 | Demonstration 19.5 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:21 | Tractates 2.62.1 · Zeno of Verona | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362-380 |
Amos 5:22
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:22 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.3 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
Amos 5:23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:23 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.3 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:23 | Oration 5.29 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 5:23 | Apostolic Constitutions 6.22.4 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380 |
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:24 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.3 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
Amos 5:25
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:25 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.3 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:25 | Against Heresies 4.15.1 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Amos 5:25–27 | Against Celsus 5.8 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 248 |
| Amos 5:25 | Demonstration 15.6 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:25 | Demonstration 19.5 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 5:25–26 | Letter 121.10 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Amos 5:25 | Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 42.12.3 · Epiphanius of Salamis | quotation, high confidence | 374-377 |
| Amos 5:25–27 | Book of Heresies 18.1 · Philastrius of Brescia | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380s |
Amos 5:26
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:26 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.3 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Amos 5:26 | Against Heresies 4.15.1 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Amos 5:26 | Oration 40.43 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Amos 5:27
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 5:27 | Dialogue with Trypho 22.4 · Justin Martyr | quotation, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |