Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Amos 9

^{1 b} Bothe the chief of them & also the commune people.

^{1 a} Which was at Jerusalem: for he appeared not in the idolatrous places of Israel.

^{1 !} Threatenings against the Temple.

^{2 !} And against Israel.

^{3 c} He sheweth that God will declare him slefe enemie vnot them in all places, and that his elementes and all creatures shalbe enemies to destroy them.

^{6 d} He declareth by the wonderful ppower of God, by the making of the heauens and the elements that it is not possible for man to escape his judgements when he punisheth.

^{7 f} Read {Jerem. 47, 4}.

^{7 e} Am I more bounde to you then to the Ethiopians or blackemores? yet haue I bestowed vpon you greater benefites.

^{8 g} Thogh he destroye the rebellious multitude, yet he wil euer reserue the remnant his Church to call vpon his Name.

^{9 h} Meaning, that none of his shulde perish in his wrath.

^{11 !} The restoring of the Church.

^{11 i} I wil sned the Messiah promised and restore by him the spiritual Israel, {Act. 15, 16}.

^{12 k} Meaning that the very enemies, as were the Edomites & others, shulde by joyned with the Jewes in one societie and body, whereof Christ shulde by the head.

^{13 m} Read {Joel 3, 18}.

^{13 l} Signifying that there shal be great plenty of all things so that when one kinde of frute is ripe, another shulde followe & euerie one in course, {Leu. 26, 5}.

^{14 n} The accomplishement hereof is vnder Christ, when they are planted in his Church, out of the which they can neuer be pulled, after they are once graffed therein.