John Trapp on Amos 6:10

Verſe 10. And a mans uncle ſhall take him up] Him, that is every one of the ten a fore-mentioned, being now dead of the plague, ſhall his uncle or deareſt friend take up on his own ſhoulders, for want of the ordinary mercenary officers (called by the Latines Veſpillones, Libitinarii, Pollinctores) their beſt friends ſhall be forced to bury or burn their dead corpſes. So Seneca in Oedipo.

—portat hunc aeger parens Supremum ad ignem, mater hunc amens gerit, Properatque ut alium regerat in eundem regum.

To bring out the bones out of the houſe] for buriall as 1 Sam. 31.15 the fleſh being firſt burnt. Bones are a part of a mans body; and therefore to be committed to the earth, or laid up in a ſafe place as Ioſephs were Exod. 13.19. Ioſh. 24.32. and with his, the reſt of the Patriarks doubtleſſe Act. 7.16 This is one of the dues of the dead 1. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. In honour of God who made mans body with admirable art Pſal. 139.5. and as it were by the book verſe 14.15, 16.2. Next becauſe the dead body was ſometime a Temple of the Holy Ghoſt, and an inſtrument of many holy actions 1 Cor. 3.16, 17. and 2 Cor. 6.16. 3. becauſe it ſhall be raiſed one day and conformed to Chriſts glorious body the Standard Philip. 2.21. We know, ſaith the ſame Apoſtle, that when Chriſt, our life, ſhall appeare, we ſhall appeare with him in glory: like as in the transfiguration, that body of Moſes which was hid in the valley of Moab, appeared with Chriſt in the hill of Tabor.

and ſhall ſay unto him that is by the ſides of the houſe] To him that burneth the dead, as afore, that aſſiſteth a mans uncle to interr him. The Jewes did not uſually burn but bury: yet ſometimes they did Jer. 34. and 1 Kings. 31. and at this time they were forced by the raging peſtilence to do it (as Hierome here noteth) for the preventing of ſtench and further infection.

Is there yet any with thee?] ſc. left alive: or hath death made a clean riddance? Or thus: Are there yet any more dead corpſes, which I may carry foorth for the buriall?

and he ſhall ſay No:] Or, And he ſhall ſay An end, a totall conſumption: they are all dead, and gone. A ſad verdict.

then ſhall he ſay, Hold thy tongue] ſc. beare it patiently,Has, St. fret not, murmure not, 'tis Gods doing Pſal. 39.9. Hold thy peace at the preſence of the Lord God Zeph. 1.7.

for we may not make mention of the Name of the Lord] This is vox deſperantis the voice of deſpaire and deſpondenſy: and it is as if he had ſaid: it is bootleſſe to pray; for God is ſet to plague us, and will not be pacified; Surely there is no hope: but we are all Free among the dead, like the ſlaine that lie in the grave whom God remembreth no more, Pſal. 88.5. neither helpeth it us to remember or mention him any more. Men under ſharp afflictions are apt to think that there is left them neither hope of better nor place of worſe, as the Church in the Lamentations. Others ſenſe it otherwiſe: but to me this ſeemeth the likelieſt.