But if it be not given to us to prove this kind of authenticity--a question whose data are so obscure, yet whose answer fortunately is of so little significance--let us gladly welcome that greater Authenticity whose undeniable proofs these verses so splendidly exhibit. No one questions their right to the place which some great spirit gave them in this book--their suitableness to its grand and ordered theme, their pure vision and their eternal truth. That common-sense, and that conscience, which, moving among the events of earth and all the tangled processes of history, find everywhere reason and righteousness at work, in these verses claim the Universe for the same powers, and see in stars and clouds and the procession of day and night the One Eternal God Who _declareth to man what His mind is_. FOOTNOTES: [363] iii. 6_b_; iv. 9; vi. 14; iv. 12_b_. [364] vi. 12. [365] viii. 8. [366] iii. 7: _Jehovah God doeth nothing, but He hath revealed His secret to His servants the prophets._ [367] i. 2; iii. 9; ix. 3. [368] ii. 9. [369] viii. 12. [370] v. 24; 19, 20, etc.; 7; vi. 12. [371] i. 2. [372] iv. 9 ff. [373] iv. 6-11; vi. 11; viii. 8 ff. [374] LXX. _the thunder_. [375] Or _spirit_. [376] _I.e. God's_; a more natural rendering than to take _his_ (as Hitzig does) as meaning _man's_. [377] See above, pp. 166 f. _n._ [378] Text of last clause uncertain; see above, p. 167. [379] LXX. _Jehovah of Hosts_. [380] First in 1875 by Duhm, _Theol. der Proph._, p. 119; and after him by Oort, _Theol. Tjidschrift_, 1880, pp. 116 f.; Wellhausen, _in locis_; Stade, _Gesch._, I. 571; Cornill, _Einleitung_, 176. [381] Hosea xiii. 4 [382] Smith, _Prophets of Israel_, p. 399; Kuenen, _Hist. Krit. Einl._ (Germ. Ed.), II. 347. [383] v. 8, 9. [384] Cornill, _Einl._, 176. [385] Cf. viii. 8. [386] v. 8; ix. 6, though here LXX. read _Jehovah of Hosts is His Name_. [387] iv. 13. See previous note. [388] v. 27. See above, pp. 172 f. _n._: cf. Hosea xii. 6. [389] xlvii. 4 and liv. 5. [390] xlviii. 2: cf. Duhm, _in loco_, and Cheyne, _Introduction to the Book of Isaiah_, 301. [391] x. 16; xxxi. 35; xxxii. 18; l. 34 (perhaps a quotation from Isa. xlvii. 4); li. 19, 57. [392] xlvi. 18, where the words שמו צבאות fail in LXX.; xlviii. 15 _b_, where the clause in which it occurs is wanting in the LXX. [393] But I have room at least for a bare statement of these remarkable facts:-- The titles for the God of Israel used in the Book of Amos are these: (1) _Thy God, O Israel_, ישראל אלהיך; (2) _Jehovah_, יהוה; (3) _Lord Jehovah_, יהוה אדני; (4) _Lord Jehovah of the Hosts_, יהוה אדני צבאות; (5) _Jehovah God of Hosts_ or _of the Hosts_, צבאות אלהי יהוה or הצבאות.