Hosea 3 - Introduction
_BY THE EXPIATION OF AN ADULTERER, IS SHEWED THE DESOLATION OF ISRAEL BEFORE THEIR RESTORATION._ _Before Christ 786._... [ Continue Reading ]
_BY THE EXPIATION OF AN ADULTERER, IS SHEWED THE DESOLATION OF ISRAEL BEFORE THEIR RESTORATION._ _Before Christ 786._... [ Continue Reading ]
BELOVED OF HER FRIEND, &C.— _Given to wickedness, and an adulterer._ A different woman is here meant from that which he had before espoused. The first denoted the infidelity of the kingdom of Israel, and God's divorce of them. He abandoned them to the enemy, and permitted them to be carried into cap... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT ABIDE, &C.— By these conditions which the prophet makes with the woman whom he was to take, that she should humble herself, and not run about after others, as formerly, but remain sequestered and solitary, and that for many days, &c. must be meant, with respect to Israel, that God, though... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT AN IMAGE, AND WITHOUT AN EPHOD, AND WITHOUT TERAPHIM.— After much consideration of the passage, and of much that has been written upon it by expositors, I rest in the opinion strenuously maintained by the learned Pococke, in which he agrees with many that went before him, and has the concurr... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL ABIDE, &C.— This threatening was fulfilled upon the ten tribes, when they were carried captive by Salmaneser; but was fulfilled in a remarkable manner upon the whole nation at the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus; for from that time they have had neither republic no... [ Continue Reading ]