| Erich Fromm - 1963 - 232 pagina’s
...against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in... | |
| Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer - 1971 - 604 pagina’s
...bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate" (Amos 5:12; cf. v. 15). As James has put it: "Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts" (5:4) . Thus, alongside the "wages of the laborers"... | |
| Henry William Spiegel - 1991 - 904 pagina’s
...have rusted, and their rust FROM ARISTOTLE TO THE have laid up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in... | |
| Francis Fernandez - 1988 - 656 pagina’s
...rich through fraud and injustice: Your riches have rotted . . . Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.5 1. Ps 42:1 2. Paul VI, Apostolic Letter, Octogésima... | |
| Bruce J. Malina - 1993 - 196 pagina’s
...payment or did not pay at all. See Jeremiah 22:13-16; Malachi 3:5; and in the New Testament: Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts Oames 5:4). On the other hand, to hire oneself... | |
| Walter J. Burghardt - 1995 - 186 pagina’s
...This is not a denunciation of riches, of all the rich. The enemy is the unjust rich. Listen again: "The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,...kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts" (v. 4). Even the harsh sentence, "You have murdered... | |
| Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - 1995 - 1002 pagina’s
...against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in... | |
| Frances Taylor Gench - 1996 - 146 pagina’s
...the rich, toward the powerful, toward the folks who control the society. "Behold," thunders James, "the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out. . . ." Now the congregation begins to get into the sermon. An "amen" from a laborer in the back pew... | |
| Oscar L. Arnal - 1998 - 241 pagina’s
...against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in... | |
| Patrick J. Hartin - 1999 - 204 pagina’s
...the poor, and the author hopes to steer them to a deeper identity with the oppressed."ll' "Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which...kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts" Gas 5:4). r As Tamez (The Scandalous Message... | |
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