George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 4:11
Understanding. Literally, "heart." (Haydock) --- Some sins darken reason more than others; but none so much as spiritual fornication. (Worthington)
Understanding. Literally, "heart." (Haydock) --- Some sins darken reason more than others; but none so much as spiritual fornication. (Worthington)
Verse Hosea 4:11. _WHOREDOM AND WINE_] These debaucheries go generally _together_. _TAKE AWAY THE HEART._] Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, c...
WHOREDOM AND WINE AND NEW WINE TAKE AWAY THE HEART - (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and...
II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. NEW WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. HEART. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for understanding. See Isaiah 28:6....
_Whoredom_, &c. -The heart", not -their heart" (as the Targum and Peshito). It is a moral adage, showing that Hosea was not more inclined than Isaiah to abandon simple moral teaching to the class of -...
Thus the priests have led the way, and the people follow. They have lost the spiritual faculty; a wild impulse to the most sensual idolatry has carried them away....
_A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE -- HOSEA 4:6-11:_ Religious ignorance is always sad. This is especially true when people have had the opportunity to know what is right. These people and these priests were destro...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDESPIRIT OF IDOLATRY TEXT: Hosea 4:11-14 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding: 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto t...
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. WHOREDOM AND WINE AND NEW WINE TAKE AWAY THE HEART - a moral truth applicable to all times The special reference here is to the licentious orgies...
CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...
HEART] here probably as the seat of 'the understanding' (RV). 12. Cp. Jer 11:27. Idols were frequently made out of stumps and stems of trees, and were not only worshipped, but sometimes used for orac...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message! The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
HEART. — The whole inner life, consumed by these licentious indulgences....
זְנ֛וּת וְ יַ֥יִן וְ תִירֹ֖ושׁ יִֽקַּֽח ־לֵֽב
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;
4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10 CF. Hosea 4:11 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalting licentiousn...
“JOINED TO IDOLS” Hosea 4:11-19 The prophet does not mince his words in describing the morals of his time. We are reminded of Bunyan's words: “My original and inward pollution was my plague. It was a...
In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
(m) Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. (m) In giving themselves to pleasures, they become like brute beasts....
The first verse in this paragraph is a very striking scripture. In some of our old Bibles the margin hath it in yet stronger terms; they eat up the excrement of my people, meaning that which is most t...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
The Futility of Sin I. INTRODUCTION A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a turn that continues through the rest of the book. 1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
The verb לקח _lakech, _means to take away; and this sense is also admissible that wine and wantonness take possession of the heart; but I take its simpler meaning, to take away. But it is not a genera...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...
WHOREDOM AND WINE, AND NEW WINE, TAKE AWAY THE HEART. Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reason and judgment, and even of common sense, make them downright fools, and so stupid as...
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Ver. 11. _Whoredom and wine and new wine have taken away the heart_] _i.e._ Have robbed my people of themselves, and laid a beast in their room. An...
_They eat up the sin of my people_ These priests, mentioned Hosea 4:6, live upon the sin-offerings of the people; and are so far from restraining them, that they take delight in seeing them commit ini...
THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
Whoredom, the general immorality just referred to, AND WINE AND NEW WINE, drunken debauchery in every form, as practiced in those days in connection with the Syrian idol-worship, TAKE AWAY THE HEART,...
6-11 Both priests and people rejected knowledge; God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God, neither desired nor endeavoured to retain it in mind, and to transmit the remembrance to thei...
WHOREDOM; unlawful converse with wanton women, the forbidden pleasures of an adulterous bed. AND WINE AND NEW WINE; excess of drinking, and indeed all immoderate pleasures; one kind being put for all....
Hosea 4:11 Harlotry H2184 wine H3196 wine H8492 enslave H3947 (H8799) heart H3820 take - Hosea 4:12
ISRAEL'S GROWING SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY AND DEGRADED BEHAVIOUR ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH THEIR RELIANCE ON IDOLS, FOREIGNERS, UNWORTHY KINGS AND THEMSELVES, AND THIS IN CONTRAST WITH YHWH'S STEADFAST LOV...
STRONG WINE AND ILLICIT SEX HAVE TURNED THE PEOPLE'S MINDS SO THAT THEY LOOK TO BITS OF WOOD CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE AND PLAY THE HARLOT ON THE TOPS OF MOUNTAINS AND UNDER SACRED TREES RATHER THAN LOO...
‘Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.' Israel are here described as being lacking in understanding both because of their whoredom and licentiousness, and because they indulge t...
BABEL; a type; (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 11:1). _ BABYLON; the last, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 5:6). _ BABYLON; not to be rebuilt, ( See Scofield) - ...
CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...
Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:10 THEY SHALL PLAY THE WHORE. By worshiping Baal. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:10. ENOUGH] Not be satisfied. LEFT OFF] keeping, observing Jehovah (Zechariah 11:11). All other means of increase failed. Polygamy against the law, and will bring the curse o...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
Ecclesiastes 7:7; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 5:12; Luke 21:34;...
Take away the heart — Deprive men of their understanding and judgment....