Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 8:1

1 THus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me, And behold a basket b of summer fruit .

Vid. chap. 7. ver. 1. let. b. c. and ver. 4. and ver. 7. a hook say some, with which the gatherer might either pull down the bough, or pull off the ripe Fruit; or a basket into which the ripe fruit gathered was put to be carryed away.

Not the early ripe fruit, but that which as it needed, so had the whole Summers heat to ripen it, and was gathered in at the end of the Summer.