Doing some background reading for my sermon on 'Love and Hate' I came across something which kind of made me smile. Here is J B Phillips talking about Amos:
We can imagine him as he preached in Israel at Bethel, the centre of religion but also of luxurious corruption, as rather like a hard Calvinist from remoter Scotland confronted by the worldliness and luxury of London, New York or Paris
J B Phillips Four Prophets London, Geoffrey Bless, 1963 p.3
A crofter from one of the islands maybe?
Of course this gives anyone with eyes to see a hint of the angle I will be exploring a week on Sunday!
PS Is 'remoter' actually a word?
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'Remoter', according to my very large dictionary - means 'more distant'. Not to be confused with a 're-moter' - who is a very critical person, who persists in the nitpicking of Matthew 7!!
Youch, some who puts the motes back in maybe?! LOL.