Three books of commentaries on the prophet Amos

“Three Books of Interpretations on the Prophet Amos” (9 chapters) written by Bl. Jerome of Stridon in 406. The commentary presents a double translation - from Hebrew and from Greek (Septuagint) (except for those places where the text is completely identical). Blzh. Jerome speaks of the inspiration of Holy Scripture. In his opinion, a necessary condition for receiving Divine inspiration was the special personal holiness and moral purity of the holy writers: “From here we see that if there is no teaching in the churches, then chastity perishes, purity is destroyed, all virtues disappear, because they do not eat the word of the Lord...” (chapter 8). The interpretation speaks of the Church as the body of Christ, the head of which is Christ. He “daily builds up the believers and the members of His body and brings them from the earth to heaven, Himself ascending with them” (chapter 9). *The title of the work in Latin is Commentarius in Amos prophetam. The prophet Amos, next to Joel, occupying third place among the twelve prophets, is not identical with the one who, as we read, was the father of the prophet Isaiah. For the name of the latter has Aleph as the first letter and Sade as the last, and means strong or strong, but this one is written through Ayin and Samech and means a rejected people; the middle letters mem and vav are the same in both names. But for you, who do not have such a variety of vowels and the letter s, which among the Jews has a threefold form, these and other names seem the same, which among the Jews differ both in the difference in letters and in their meaning. So, this prophet, whose [book] we now have in our hands, was from the city of Tekui, located six miles south of Saint Bethlehem, in which the Savior of the world was born; further on there is not a single village and not even the rough, oven-like huts that the Africans call mapalia 1 . It is such a vast desert that it extends to the Red Sea and the borders of Persia, Ethiopia and India. On this dry and sandy land... [part of the text is missing] Of course, these are huts, yurts or wagons that nomadic peoples in Africa carry with them everywhere. You might be interested in: