Amos 8:10

• §2269Article 5 · The Fifth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

  “Those whose usurious and avaricious dealings lead to the hunger and death of their brethren in the human family indirectly commit homicide, which is imputable to them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Am 8:4-10.

Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies IV.33Book IV

  “…at noon, and there shall be darkness over the earth in the clear day; and I will turn your feast days into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,” plainly announced that obscuration of the sun which at the time of His crucifixion took place from the sixth hour onwards, and that after this event, those…” — editor's note: Amos viii. 9, 10.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 10

  “…loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will make the grief like that for a beloved (son), and them that are with him like a day of mourning.”” — editor's note: See Amos viii. 9, 10 (especially in the LXX.).

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 14

  “…bread, and at the feast of the Passover: then afterwards he says, And I will make Him as the mourning of an Only Son, and those with Him as a day of anguish; for in the day of unleavened bread, and at the feast, their women were wailing and weeping, and the Apostles had hidden themselves and were in anguish.” — editor's note: Amos viii. 10.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 243

  “Our feasts are turned into mourning.” — editor's note: Amos viii. 10.

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 68

  “Because, then, the Jews, deprived of all the sanctification imparted by these mysteries, turned their light into darkness and their “feasts into mourning,” let us, dearly-beloved, prostrate our bodies and our souls and worship God’s Grace, which has been poured out upon all nations, beseeching the merciful…” — editor's note: Cf. Amos viii. 10: and below, 1 Pet. v. 9.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.24Book II

  “In Amos: “And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, the sun shall set at noonday, and the day of light shall be darkened; and I will turn your feast-days into grief, and all your songs into lamentation.”” — editor's note: Amos viii. 9, 10. [Lardner, Credib., vol. vii. pp. 107–124.]

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• Matthew 27:42

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Matthew 27:45

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.24.

• Matthew 27:51

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Matthew 27:54

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Romans 8:32

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• 1 Corinthians 12:21

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.

• Ephesians 5:2

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Ephesians 5:25

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Ephesians 5:29

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Hebrews 10:20

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• 1 Peter 5:9

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.

• Judges 5:27

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.

• Tobit 2:6

  Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

• Psalm 73:8

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.

• Isaiah 49:15

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.

• Jeremiah 9:1

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.

• Jeremiah 15:9

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.24.

• Daniel 3:10

  Cited together in Letters Letter 243.