Amos 8 in the early church
77 passages quote, allude to, or echo Amos 8, 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: 4 · 5 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 13
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:4 | Demonstration 14.3 · Aphrahat | allusion, medium confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 8:4–5 | Oration 14.24 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Amos 8:5
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:5 | Oration 14.24 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 8:5 | Oration 16.19 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Amos 8:7
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:7–9 | Demonstration of the Gospel 10.6.1 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
| Amos 8:7–8 | Demonstration of the Gospel 10.6.3 · Eusebius of Caesarea | allusion, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
| Amos 8:7 | Oration 5.23 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Amos 8:8
Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:8 | Demonstration of the Gospel 10.6.4 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
Amos 8:11
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:11 | Letters to Virgins 1.13.4 · Anonymous | allusion, high confidence | 3rd century |
| Amos 8:11 | PG 12:1227 (Ps 17 LXX) · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Amos 8:11 | PG 12:1507 (Ps 67–68 LXX) · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Amos 8:11 | Commentary on John 13.224 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 230–248 |
| Amos 8:11 | On Prayer 27.6 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 233–234 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homily on Luke 28 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 233–250 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homily on Luke 33 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 233–250 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on Exodus 11.2 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on Judges 4.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on Leviticus 9.7 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Amos 8:11–12 | Homilies on Psalms 36-38 3.10 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Amos 8:11 | 12 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | 250 (the text may be later) |
| Amos 8:11 | On the Good of Patience 6 · Cyprian of Carthage | echo, medium confidence | 256 |
| Amos 8:11–12 | Demonstration 16.5 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on the Psalms 33.6 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360-378 |
| Amos 8:11 | Tractates on the Psalms 58.7 · Hilary of Poitiers | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Amos 8:11 | Tractates on the Psalms 145.5 · Hilary of Poitiers | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Amos 8:11 | Oration 34.2 · Gregory of Nazianzus | quotation, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 8:11 | Oration 43.36 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies 2.8 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 363-378 |
| Amos 8:11 | Letter 53.8 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Amos 8:11 | On the Making of Man 19 · Gregory of Nyssa | quotation, high confidence | 379 |
| Amos 8:11 | Homilies on Matthew 2.5 · John Chrysostom | quotation, high confidence | ca. 390 |
| Amos 8:11 | Poem 24, lines 697–730 · Paulinus of Nola | echo, medium confidence | ca. 393–431 |
| Amos 8:11 | Poem 31, lines 441–474 · Paulinus of Nola | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 393–431 |
| Amos 8:11 | Letters 19.2 · Paulinus of Nola | echo, medium confidence | ca. 394–413 |
| Amos 8:11 | Tractates 9 · Gaudentius of Brescia | allusion, low confidence | ca. 397-410 |
| Amos 8:11 | Commentary on Jeremiah 3.27 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
| Amos 8:11 | Commentary on Jeremiah 4.32 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 414-419 |
| Amos 8:11 | Part 2 · Eutherius of Tyana | quotation, high confidence | ca. 431-440 |
| Amos 8:11 | Sermon on the Barbarian Time 6 · Quodvultdeus of Carthage | echo, low confidence | ca. 437-450 |
| Amos 8:11 | Part 1, chapter 29 · Quodvultdeus of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | ca. 445-450 |
Amos 8:13
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos 8:13 | Letter 22.5 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |