Hosea 4:8-14

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 to be abhorred, is most delighted in by the enemies of God. And it should seem, that this is what most defines the character of the seed of the serpent. Say what men will, yet the fact returns with double strength and violence, there is an everlasting line drawn between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; between the Cains and the Abels, the Esaus and the Jacobs of every generation. The children of the bond-woman will mock and manifest their hatred to the children of the free. Neither can they ever join, either in the life that now is, or in that which is to come. Reader! consult some few of the scriptures in confirmation. John 8:42; Galatians 4:22 to the end 1 John 3:7.