The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 3:3-8

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Before announcing more particularly the coming judgment, Amos, by a series of little parables or comparisons, establishes his right to prophesy, and intimates the necessity laid upon him to deliver his message.

He illustrates the truths that all effects have causes, and that from the cause you can infer the effect.

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