Holy Scripture

Amos 5:6

A church father on this verse
“Therefore, while there is time, look to the true and eternal salvation, and, since the end of the world is now at hand, out of fear of God turn your minds to God. Let not your powerless and vain dominion in the world over the just and the meek delight you. Remember that in the fields the tares and the darnel have domi…”
Cyprian, 3th c. — Treatise V. An Address to Demetrianus 23

Source: Septuagint

Original

6Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.

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4Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

5But seek not Bethel, and go not in to Gilgal, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.

— Amos 5:6 —

7It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

8who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

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