Hosea 8:1
CONTENTS We have here another Sermon of the Prophet, or perhaps it is but a continuation of the former, for the subject is the same. The Lord expostulates with his people, and threatens to correct them.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS We have here another Sermon of the Prophet, or perhaps it is but a continuation of the former, for the subject is the same. The Lord expostulates with his people, and threatens to correct them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation. The expression is not unlike that command to Isaiah 58:1. And if we spiritualize the chapter, and for a moment lose sight of Israel of old, and read... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a very striking passage in these words of the Lord, and is as suited to all ages as to the age of Israel. The Lord saith, that the great things he wrote to Israel were counted by them strange things. And Reader! what more strange to thousands, who call themselves Christians, than the pure do... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! Was there ever a period in the Church of Christ, when those that are divinely inspired, and called to the office of ambassadors for Jesus, needed to set the trumpet more powerfully to the mouth, and to call upon the sinners in Zion to be afraid for the impending judgments of God?... [ Continue Reading ]