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Amos 5:22

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22 For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.

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Amos 4:4

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4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes every three days,

Commentary

 

Pleasant

  

Generally, when the Bible describes something as "pleasant" or "desirable," it is talking about true ideas and concepts, things of the intellect. A good example is in Genesis 49:15, where Jacob is prophesying about his son Issachar: "And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant..." Here "rest was good" refers to celestial things, or things led by love of the Lord; "the land that it was pleasant" refers to spiritual things, or things led by the understanding of what is true.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 375 [26], 433 [12]; Arcana Coelestia 102, 1201 [2], 6392, 8869 [5], 9272 [3]; The Apocalypse Explained 242 [12], 357 [24], 504 [25], 654 [29], 739 [7], 750 [12], 799 [14], [17])