The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 205
205. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 5
1-3 Lamentation over the church because it has been successively devastated. (2)
4-9 Exhortation to seek the Lord, that all things of the church may not perish through evils and falsities. (2)
10-13 They reject truths because they are in self-intelligence. (2)
14-15 Exhortation to be converted. (2)
16-20 Lamentation over the destruction of the church, and over their own destruction, when the Lord comes. (3)
21-22 Their worship cannot be accepted. (2)
23-25 It will be accepted if they have good and truth. (2)
26-27 Otherwise they are deprived of all knowledge [cognitio] of truth and good. (2)
Amos 5:10-13
10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
12
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
