Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:4
They be the children of whoredoms - They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear. read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:5
That give me my bread - See the note on Jeremiah 44:17-18 ; (note), where nearly the same words are found and illustrated. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:6
I will hedge up thy way with thorns - I will put it out of your power to escape the judgments I have threatened; and, in spite of all your attachment to your idols, you shall find that they can give you neither bread, nor water, nor wool, nor flax, nor oil, nor drink. And ye shall be brought into such circumstances, that the pursuit of your expensive idolatry shall be impossible. And she shall be led so deep into captivity, as never to find the road back to her own land. And this is the... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:8
For she did not know that I gave her corn - How often are the gifts of God's immediate bounty attributed to fortuitous causes - to any cause but the right one! Which they prepared for Baal - And how often are the gifts of God's bounty perverted into means of dishonoring him! God gives us wisdom, strength, and property; and we use them to sin against him with the greater skill, power, and effect! Were the goods those of the enemy, in whose service they are employed, the crime would be the... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:2
Verse 2 The Prophet seems in this verse to contradict himself; for he promised reconciliation, and now he speaks of a new repudiation. These things do not seem to agree well together that God should embrace, or be willing to embrace, again in his love those whom he had before rejected, — and that he should at the same time send a bill of divorce, and renounce the bond of marriage. But if we weigh the design of the Prophet, we shall see that the passage is very consistent, and that there is in... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:3
Verse 3 Though the Prophet in this verse severely threatens the Israelites, yet it appears from a full view of the whole passage, that he mitigates the sentence we have explained: for by declaring what sort of vengeance was suspended over them, except they timely repented, he shows that there was some hope of pardon remaining, which, as we shall see, he expresses afterwards more clearly. He now begins by saying, Lest I strip her naked, and set her as on the day of her nativity This alone would... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:4
Verse 4 The Lord now comes close to each individual, after having spoken in general of the whole people: and thus we see that to be true which I have said, that it was far from the mind of the Prophet to suppose, that God here teaches the faithful who had already repented, that they ought to condemn their own mother. The Prophet meant nothing of the kind; but, on the contrary, he wished to check the waywardness of the people, who ceased not to contend with God, as though he had been more severe... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:5
Verse 5 He afterwards declares how the children became spurious; their mother, who conceived or bare them, has been wanton; with shameful acts has she defiled herself בוש bush, means, to be ashamed; but here the Prophet means not that the Israelites were touched with shame, for such a meaning would be inconsistent with the former sentence; but that they were like a shameless and infamous woman, touched with no shame for her baseness. Their mother, then, had been wanton, and she who bare them... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:6
Verse 6 The Prophet here pursues the subject we touched upon yesterday; for he shows how necessary chastisement is, when people felicitate themselves in their vices. And God, when he sees that men confess not immediately their sins, defends as it were his own cause, as one pleading before a judge. In a word, God here shows that he could not do otherwise than punish so great an obstinacy in the people, as there appeared no other remedy. Therefore, he says, behold I — There is a special meaning... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked - Lest I expose her to infamy, want, and punishment. The punishment of an adulteress among the ancient Germans was this: "They shaved off her hair, stripped her naked in the presence of her relatives, and in this state drove her from the house of her husband." See on Isaiah 3:17 ; (note); and see also Ezekiel 16:39 ; Ezekiel 23:26 . However reproachful this might be to such delinquents, it had no tendency to promote their moral reformation. And set her like a... read more