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In Amos Duane Garrett puts aside the study of contextual, theological matters normally touched upon in commentaries, and solely focuses on the written text. He brings a carefully learned grammatical analysis to this study and illustrates the meaning of the text through grammar study.

is YHWH”) within which there are three complex relative clauses, each formed by a participle and one or more finite verbs. Amos’ tendency to have one or more participles lines followed by lines headed by the conjunction and predicated with a finite verb has already been noted; see 6:3–6. He does the same thing here in Bb–e (one participle line and three finite verb lines), Bf–g (one participle line and one finite verb line) and Bh–i (one participle line and one finite verb line). In each of these
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