{"id":77188,"date":"2020-07-09T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77188"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:27:47","slug":"amoss-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/amoss-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amos\u2019s Proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"77188","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"521","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Questions to shake complacency and teach that actions have consequences\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter is replete with some of the Bible\u2019s best-known aphorisms. Between verses 3-6, we have a series of 7 sayings, all expressed in the form of rhetorical questions, whose answers are in the negative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can two walk together without having met? Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a great beast let out a cry from its den without having made a capture? Does a bird drop on the ground\u2014in a trap\u2014 with no snare there? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has caught something? When a ram\u2019s horn is sounded in a town, do the people not take alarm? Can misfortune come to a town if the LORD has not caused it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the collection of proverbs and their individual meanings have been the subject of debate. Their overall sense seems to be that nothing transpires by accident or happenstance; that everything is foreordained; that the causes of all effects and, similarly, the effects of all visible causes, can be ascertained; and that to ignore them is folly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the medievals, the prevailing sense related these aphorisms to 2:12: \u201cAnd you commanded the prophets to cease prophesying.\u201d People ignored the prophets and their warnings of impending catastrophe, reveling\u2014arrogantly\u2014in their own self-satisfaction. Amos sought to shake that complacency by posing to them a series of rhetorical questions meant to challenge their assumptions about the lack of cause and effect. Nothing, he maintained, is coincidental; all is providential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting with verse 4, the allusions to imminent doom are clear: lions snatch their prey, birds are snared, rams\u2019 horns\u2014ancient sirens\u2014sound the alarm (see Ezekiel 33:3,4,5,6), and misfortune befalls the town. But what of verse 3? To what does two people walking together allude? Perhaps its purpose is to warn of the peril that lies even in the mundane.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not hard to fathom potential trouble when you see ravaging beasts and hear warning sirens; it takes particular foresight to recognize it in the outwardly peaceful sight of two companions\u2014until you reflect on the odds of two strangers going in tandem without having synchronized their movements in advance. 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