Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. Ver. 1. _Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, &c._] This yet is emphatic: and it is as if he... [ Continue Reading ]
So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: Ver. 2. _So I bought her to me._] God is to be obeyed, though it go never so much against the heart and the hair with us. ‘ Eπου τω Yεω. Follow God, was a heathen but an honest precept ... [ Continue Reading ]
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt abide for me many days_] Even till the last days, Hosea 3:5, or last year, as Ezekiel hath it, Ezekiel 38:8. Thus they... [ Continue Reading ]
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim: Ver. 4. _For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, &c._] They shall be, as it is said of the Bra... [ Continue Reading ]
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. Ver. 5. _Afterward shall the children of Israel return_] They shall come out of the furnace more refined than ever. "By this shall the iniqu... [ Continue Reading ]