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1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-3)

The great reason why sinners defer their repentance de die in diem—from day to day , is because they think God thus defers his judgments, and there is no song wherewith they so effectually sing themselves asleep as that, My Lord delays his coming ; and therefore God, by his prophets, frequently represents to Israel the day of his wrath not only as just and certain, but as very near and hastening o...

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