Amos 5:8 (WEB)
Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,
Fathers and councils · 4
Gregory of Nyssa
“For if there were other names of stars, Holy Scripture would not have made mention of those which are in common use among the Greeks, Esaias saying, “Which maketh the Pleiads, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the Chambers of the South,” and Job making mention of Orion and Aseroth; so that from this it is…” — editor's note: The words here attributed to Isaiah are found in Job ix. 9 (LXX.): and Orion in Isaiah xiii. 10 (LXX.), with “the stars of heaven;” and in Amos v. 8 with “the…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“But His nature is immutable and invariable, wherefore of the creature the prophet saith “He that maketh and transformeth all things.”” — editor's note: The reference in Schulze’s edition is to Jeremiah x. 16, but here the Septuagint ὁ πλάσας τὰ πάντα does not bear out the point. The quotation is no doubt of…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“O Maker and Transformer in due time of all things by Thy designing Word, according to the knowledge of the depth of Thy wisdom and providence! do Thou now receive Cæsarius, the firstfruits of our pilgrimage;…” — editor's note: Amos v. 8 (LXX.).
Read the whole comment“But since God, Who maketh poor and maketh rich, Who killeth and maketh alive; Who maketh and transformeth all things; Who turneth night into day, winter into spring, storm into calm, drought into abundance of rain; and often for the sake of the prayers of one righteous man sorely persecuted; Who lifteth…” — editor's note: Amos v. 8.
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