Amos 2:6

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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

and the needy for a pair of shoes: Now the shoes which the Father bids the servant give to the repentant son who has betaken himself to Him, do not impede or drag to the earth (for the earthly tabernacle weighs down the anxious mind); but they are buoyant, and ascending, and waft to heaven, and serve as such a ladder and chariot as he requires who has turned his mind towards the Father. For, beautiful after being first beautifully adorned with all these things without, he enters into the gladness within.

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

He did not allow Israel, that is, the tribes of Samaria, to go unpunished; instead, he submitted them to punishment. Now, the fact that they had also sinned heedlessly, consuming, as it were, the serenity due from God to the weak, would be demonstrated by His shunning them for the 3rd and 4th sins, to which they had to be subjected by suffering a dire fate and being in trouble of every kind.

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes: Righteous, self controlled and guiless; needy as poor in spirit and was brought to court by one of the more influential, the latter would sell him to the enemy, despite the law’s declaration. Accordingly, he charges them with selling to the enemy both the righteous and the needy, and with normally doing this for some slight profit which would hardly be sufficient even for buying sandals.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Just man. Joseph, (Rupert) or our Saviour, (Sanctius) or any other. The expression is proverbial, Ezechiel xiii. 19. (Calmet) Israel contemned the law, and adopted the abominations of all. (Worthington)

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

they sell the righteous for silver: The very amount and the destination of the money, which on Judas' remorse was recalled from its first purpose of a fee, and appropriated to the purchase of a potter's field, as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew, were clearly foretold by Jeremiah: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who was valued and gave them for the potter's field.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

He might also have been betrayed by any stranger, did I not find that even here too he fulfilled a psalm: “He who did eat bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.” And without a price might he have been betrayed. For what need of a traitor was there in the case of one who offered himself to the people openly and might quite as easily have been captured by force as taken by treachery? This might, no doubt, have been well enough for another Christ but would not have been suitable in one who was accomplishing prophecies. For it was written, “The righteous one did they sell for silver.” The very amount and the destination of the money, which on Judas’s remorse was recalled “from its first purpose of a fee” and appropriated to the purchase of a potter’s field, as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew, were clearly foretold by Jeremiah: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who was valued, and gave them for the potter’s field.”

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