Hosea 3 - Introduction
The second part of the parable of Hosea's family-life... [ Continue Reading ]
The second part of the parable of Hosea's family-life... [ Continue Reading ]
_Go yet, love_ Rather, ONCE MORE GO LOVE, indicating that the narrative dropped at Hosea 1:9 is now resumed. (Notice also in this connexion the change of the third person into the first in chap. 3) It is the same woman who is meant; otherwise a different form of expression would have been used (like... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt abide for me many days_ Rather, SHALT SIT STILL (as Isaiah 30:7; Jeremiah 8:14 in A. V.). Gomer is to lead a quiet secluded life; her licentious course is cut short, and her conjugal intercourse may not yet be resumed. This is to last for -many days," i.e. as long as is necessary to assu... [ Continue Reading ]
_For_ The explanation of this latter part of the prophet's acted allegory. As he has restrained his erring wife from even the legitimate gratification of her natural instincts, so Jehovah will chastise idolatrous Israel by depriving her of her civil and religious institutions. By -the children of Is... [ Continue Reading ]
_return_ i.e. from their evil courses of disobedience to their God and to the legitimate royal house. _David their king_ There is a great body of authority for regarding this as an expression for the Messiah. So the Targum took it, so Aben Ezra, and other Jewish writers cited by Pococke. The interpr... [ Continue Reading ]