 | John Benson (of Ardwick, Manchester.) - 1836 - 294 pages
...thing that tends to confirm me in rejecting it. as unscriptural. For instance, that passage in Amos, " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?'" Amos iii, G. Mr. TUCKER gives this passage a most notorious stretch; as in the following sentence... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 446 pages
...and antagonist of God, is in direct contradiction to the most express declarations of Holy Writ. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos, iii. 6. " / make peace and create evil" Isa. xlv. 7. This is the deep mystery of the abyss... | |
 | 1980 - 452 pages
...create evil," ' and again, "The evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem,"" and again, " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it," ' and in the great song of Moses, " See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me : I kill and... | |
 | Wendy Doniger - 1980 - 432 pages
...deceptively still waters of English academia. I shall miss them all very much. Oxford, 22 March, 1975 Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos 3:6 I INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 1. The Nature of Theodicy Theodicy, the term used to designate... | |
 | Paul Foster Case - 1989 - 368 pages
...create evil; I am the Lord, that doeth all these things." (Isaiah 45:5,6,7). Again, we read in Amos 3:6, "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Seers are always courageous. That is one reason for their careful observation of the rule of silence.... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1990 - 356 pages
...things." Isaiah 45:7 "The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not." Ezekiel 8:12; 9:9 "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos 3:6 These and other passages prove that the saints of old did not dwell on any secondary causes.... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - 1993 - 262 pages
...and have taken nothing at all? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos 3:5-6 These are quite simple questions with quite obvious answers to which any rational person... | |
 | John H. Walton - 1994 - 264 pages
...result that in Israel even disasters and illness are much more firmly traced back to Yahweh himself: "shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" says Amos (3:6). Good and evil both come from Yahweh; evil is the punishment resulting from his wrath.... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - 1995 - 164 pages
...45:5-7). Amos 3:6 is equally direct in its description of God's metaphysical relationship to evil: Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? These verses make it clear that, for better or for worse, God is somehow ultimately responsible for... | |
 | Neil L. Shumsky - 1996 - 534 pages
...heavy responsihility. But even as late as 1760 the liberal Jonathan Mayhew was preaching from the text "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not dune it?" He concluded that "when God's judgments are ahroad in the earth, it is then more especially... | |
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... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? 
