CONTENTS This Chapter is a very proper continuance to the subject in the former. The Lord had said that Ephraim should be let alone, having joined himself to idols; and here is related the sad consequences. The Chapter closes, however, with the prospect of mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
It should seem, that in the days of the Prophet, such was the general defect in the pure worship of the God of Israel, that even the priests and the great men openly opposed the truth. Mizpah and Tabor were places that lay in the path between Samaria and Jerusalem, so that if any poor Israelite vent... [ Continue Reading ]
The Prophet Hosea useth many similitudes, in order to convey yet more forcibly his divine truths; but the whole of what is here said, is much to one and the same purpose; namely, the defection of Israel, and the Lord's displeasure. This is a time of Jacob's trouble. None but the Lord can bring him o... [ Continue Reading ]
If we read those scriptures spiritually, and with an eye to Christ, (and in this sense will they be particularly profitable), we discover in them the weakness of all human attainments, and all human strength, to recover from the ruins of the fall. Jareb, the Assyrian, is a type of the inefficacy of... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MY soul dost thou behold in this Chapter, the false teachers here described? Ponder well the awfulness of such characters, who to please men, and find favor with the great, set their nets in the Mizpahs, and Tabors, of the present hour, to harass and afflict the people of God. Whatever H... [ Continue Reading ]