 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, French - 1827 - 522 pages
...might return, not only to their avocations, but also to their crimes ; they said in their hearts, ' When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?' Amos viii. 5. Against this disposition of mind, God has denounced by the ministry of this smne prophet,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Sabbath."—Acts xiii. 14,15,16, 27. 42. " Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell com ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1828 - 304 pages
...PUNISHMENT OF OPPRESSORS. " Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to mak« " ihe poor of the land to fail : saying, when will the new moon...balances by deceit ; that we may " buy the poor for silve. , and , the needy for a pair of shoes ; "yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Shall not the... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...sign between me and them, &c. — Ezek.xx. 12.20,21. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, &c. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may...corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? — Amos viii. 4, 5. Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn, and his disciples were an hungered,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 336 pages
...stretched on a bed of languishing. Then he "snuffed at it, and said, Behold, what a weariness is it ? When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn, and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ?" But how very different are the reflections ef " the days of darkness," of the " months of vanity,"... | |
 | James Gall - Catechisms - 1829 - 230 pages
...thoughts about our worldly concern* are forbidden on the Sabbath — Amos viii. 5. When will the new-moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? 271. Unnecessary conversation about our worldly affairs are forbidden on the Sabbath — Asa. Iviii.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 586 pages
...this, saith the prophet Amos, O ye that Amos viii. swallow up the needy, even to make tlie poor of the ' land to fail, saying, When will the new moon...corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? This being the disposition of that people, not bearing a greater strictness, they not being able... | |
 | 1830 - 586 pages
...torn, the lame, the sick, as an offering at our hands. We must beware of saying in our hearts — ' When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? And the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat V For this the land trembleth. For the LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, concerning; such... | |
 | John Williamson Nevin - Bible - 1830 - 258 pages
...worldly business on such days : When will the New Moon be gone, the wicked are represented as saying, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? Like the Sabbath, also, they were deemed fit times for visiting the prophets to receive instruction,... | |
 | David Cranz, Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland - Greenland - 1831 - 318 pages
...be found to correspond to that which the prophet has drawn of the Sabbath-breakers of his day — " Saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may...shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?" Amos viii. 5. The converted Greenlanders manifested a great desire to be admitted to the participation... | |
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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit... 
