Hosea 6:1
_Early, or in haste. All the people will repent. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Early, or in haste. All the people will repent. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cure us. God is always ready to receive penitents. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Third. In a short time the Lord will easily set us free. But the prophet refers more directly to the resurrection of the faithful, and of Christ, Ephesians ii. 5., and 1 Corinthians xv. 4. (Calmet) --- St. Paul mentions the third day according to the Scriptures, which nowhere else so clearly specif... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mercy. Hebrew chesed, (Haydock) "piety," &c., (Grotius) whence the word Assideans is derived, 1 Machabees ii. 42. The captives flattered themselves, that as soon as they began to entertain sentiments of repentance, God would relieve them. But he answers that their virtue is inconstant, and that the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mouth. I have ordered my prophets to denounce death unto them, and to treat them roughly, like a piece of marble designed for a statue. Septuagint, &c., "I have slain thy prophets," &c., by Elias, Jehu, &c. The former sense is preferable. --- Thy judgments, or condemnation. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mercy: sincere piety, ver. 4. --- Sacrifice. They had offered many, chap. v. 6. (Calmet) --- "My victims are the salvation of the faithful, and the conversion of sinners." (St. Jerome) --- Knowledge, of a practical nature, which was deficient, chap iv. 6., and vi. 4. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Adam. A compact was made with him, that if he continued faithful or otherwise, his posterity should be born in original justice or sin. (Haydock) --- He transgressed, and was expelled from paradise, as the Jews were from their land. Septuagint, "like a man:" like any who had not been so highly favo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Supplanted with blood. That is, undermined and brought to ruin for shedding of blood; and, as it is signified in the following verse, for conspiring with the priests, (of Bethel) like robbers, to murder in the way such as passed out of Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem. Or else supplante... [ Continue Reading ]
_Robbers. Jephte had infested those parts, and the country was noted for murders; whence more cities of refuge were appointed in it, Judges xi., and Josue xx. 8. The prophet alludes to what had been said to Gad, Genesis xlix. 19. --- Out of, or to Sichem. They were jealous of people going thither, ... [ Continue Reading ]
_Harvest. This implies punishment or felicity. The turn of Juda shall come, and he shall be chastised; but after the captivity, he shall enjoy plenty, chap. ii. 15., and Isaias ix. 3. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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