Amos 8:1
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus : et ecce uncinus pomorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Οὕτως ἔδειξέν μοι κύριος Κύριος, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ· καὶ εἶπεν Τί σὺ βλέπεις, Ἀμώς; καὶ εἶπα Ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה כְּל֥וּב קָֽיִץ
Haydock's commentary
Hook. Hebrew, "basket of summer fruit." Septuagint, "bird-cage or net." (Haydock)
Israel was ripe for destruction, ver. 2., and chap. vii. 8. (Calmet)
Not only those who were near, (4 Kings xv. 29.) but the rest also were taken, (4 Kings xvii. 6.) as we pull with a hook the fruit which we cannot reach otherwise. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Paulinus
8. Genesis, we shall be told, needs no explanation; its topics are too simple, the birth of the world, the origin of the human race, the division of the earth, the confusion of tongues, and the descent of the Hebrews into Egypt! Exodus, no doubt, is equally plain, containing as it does merely an account of the ten plagues, the decalogue, and sundry mysterious and divine precepts! The meaning of Leviticus is of course self-evident, although every sacrifice that it describes, nay more every word that it contains, the description of Aaron’s vestments, and all the regulations connected with the Levites are symbols of things heavenly! The book of Numbers too, are not its very figures, and Balaam’s prophecy, and the forty-two camping places in the wilderness so many mysteries? Deuteronomy also, that is the second law or the foreshadowing of the law of the gospel, does it not, while exhibiting …