Amos 4:13 (WEB)
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Fathers and councils · 11
Tertullian
“Of the wind also Amos says, “He that strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind, and declareth His Christ unto men;” thus showing that that wind was created which was reckoned with the formation of the earth, which was wafted over the waters, balancing and refreshing and…” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“If, again, the Father is Christ, He must be some other Being who “strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind, and declareth unto men His Christ.”” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13, Sept.
Read the whole comment“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The Prophet was not ignorant of Him, when He said, and announceth unto men His Christ.” — editor's note: Amos. iv. 13: “and declareth unto man what is his thought.” For ו&x#o@”־המ, ‘what is his thought,’ the LXX. read וׂחישִֹמְ, ‘His Anointed,’ τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ.
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Clement of Alexandria
“What the Holy Spirit says by Hosea, I will not shrink from quoting: “Lo, I am He that appointeth the thunder, and createth spirit; and His hands have established the host of heaven.”” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13.
Read the whole comment“…he paraphrases those prophetic Scripture—that in Isaiah, “I am He that fixes the thunder, and creates the wind; whose hands have founded the host of heaven;” and that in Moses, “Behold, behold that I am He, and there is no god beside me: I will kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal: and there…” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13.
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Basil the Great
“It even uses the word to denote the condensation of the air: He, it says, who strengthens the thunder.” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13, LXX.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…of the Holy Spirit, that utterance of the prophet, which says, “He that stablisheth the thunder and createth the spirit, and declareth unto man His Christ,” we must consider this, that the prophet speaks of the creation of another Spirit, in the stablishing of the thunder, and not of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: Cf. Amos iv. 13 (LXX.).
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Ambrose of Milan
“For you read thus: “Behold, I am He that establish the thunders, and create the wind [spirit], and declare unto man his Christ, that make light and mist, and ascend upon high places, the Lord God Almighty is His Name.”” — editor's note: Amos iv. 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…that the earth is founded upon its steadfastness (though once for all these things were fixed and made) and that the thunder is made firm and the wind created.” — editor's note: cf. Amos iv. 13, where A.V. reads, He That formed the mountains and created the wind.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Amos also prophesies thus concerning such things: “Prepare thee, that thou mayst invoke thy God, O Israel; for lo, I am binding the thunder, and creating the spirit, and announcing to men their Christ.”” — editor's note: Amos iv. 12, 13.
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Cross-references · 20
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