...heavy responsihility. But even as late as 1760 the liberal Jonathan Mayhew was preaching from the text "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not dune it?" He concluded that "when God's judgments are ahroad in the earth, it is then more especially...

...and have taken nothing at all? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? c 1 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets....

...prophecy: Israel had sown the wind of idolatry and would reap the whirlwind of an Assyrian invasion. 79.3 Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos 3:6 KJV 79.4 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot countenance wrongdoing. Habakkuk...

...inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"—Dan. 4:35. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" — Amos 3:6. Nothing more perhaps need be said to those who bow before the authority of the sacred...

...regarded as the author of all happenings, good and evil. Thus we read in Amos (eighth century Bc): '. . . shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?'2 Even Deutero-Isaiah (sixth century BC) can still make Yahweh say: 'I form the light, and create...

...shall he also reap. Wisdom of Solomon 16: 15: But it is not possible to escape thine hand. Amos 3: 6: Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Let it go as it goes, it goes as God wills. Psalms 127: 2; Ecclesiastes 3: 9: It is vain for you to...

...and antagonist of God, is in direct contradiction to the most express declarations of Holy Writ. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iii. 6. " J make peace, and create evil." Isa. xlv. 7. This is the deep mystery of the abyss...

...gate of Jerusalem", (Mie. 1:12) "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Am. 3:6) Therefore when we get trials, we should accept that they come from God, not blame them on...

...goes back in time one finds that it is "a pretty recent fabrication": "Amos, eighth century BC, asks: 'Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?' Also, Jahweh, quoted by Deutero-Isaiah two hundred years later, remarks: 'I form the light, and create...

...by His own admission^ who created and controls evil, which therefore does His will. Amos 3:6 asks, "shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" 1 Samuel 18:10 describes "the evil spirit from God [that] came upon Saul . . . ." Lamentations 3:38...