5But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
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Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Behold the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world , the sin of the church; for therefore was the Son of God manifested, to take away our sin , 1 John 3:5. I. He takes away the guilt of sin by the blood of his cross (Zech. 13:1): In that day , in the gospel-day, there shall be a fountain opened , that is, provision made for the cleansing of all those from the pollutions of sin who truly repen…
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