And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this you love, O you children of Israel,
says the Lord GOD.
All Commentaries on Amos 4:5 Go To Amos 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
With. Hebrew mechamets, (Haydock) also "without leaven. "It was expressly forbidden, (Leviticus ii. 11.) though not in the first fruits, Leviticus xxiii. 17.
It, to beg that God would remember you, Numbers x. 10. Hence the Pharisees did so when they gave alms, (Matthew vi. 2.; Calmet) but out of ostentation. (Haydock)
Septuagint, "And they read the law of their own invention, (Theodoret) or of God, out of the land, (which the Jews were not to do; St. Chrysostom, or. 3. c. Jud. Const. Apost. vi. 24.) and proclaimed praise or confession. "(Haydock)
These interpreters read inaccurately, (Calmet) krau méuts thure, yet S. Jerome explains their words of heretics reading the Scriptures out of the true Church, and misapplying them.
