The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 3:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This and the following verse apply the foregoing, parables All the evils announced come from the Lord; but he brings none of them on the people without first warning by his prophets (comp. John 13:19; John 14:29).

His secret (sod); unrevealed till then. Septuagint, παιδείαν, "instruction;" so the Arabic.

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