OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 6:13

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you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

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Verse 13. Buffles, which cannot be tamed. Hebrew “with oxen.” We must understand, on rocks. Calmet.—Septuagint “Shall they be silent when they are with females?” Bible.—To turn the works of justice into sins, is no less unnatural than to plough with wild buffles. Worthington.

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