Amos

Minor prophet and shepherd. A rustic plucking mulberries who speaks to the fat cows on the mountain of Samaria.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — A shepherd and rustic, plucking mulberries; speaks to the fat cows on the mountain of Samaria; sees a hook of fruit and a famine of hearing the word of God

  "Amos, a shepherd and a rustic, plucking mulberries from brambles, cannot be explained in a few words."