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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7

Charge against religious ministers. "The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is mad." What the prophet means here seems to be this—that when the predicted retribution had come Israel would learn that the prosperity which some of the prophets had predicted ( Ezekiel 13:10 ) proved them infatuated fools. Although some render the expression, "the spiritual man is mad," a mad man the man of spirit, the man of the spirit is frantic, the idea seems to be the same as that conveyed in our... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-8

The true and the false prophet. Accepting the Authorized Version here as substantially correct, we interpret these verses as referring to both classes. Hosea 9:7 makes mention, in a parenthesis, of the false prophet. The first clause of Hosea 9:8 refers to the true prophet; and the remainder of the verse contrasts the character of the false prophet with his. The theme thus suggested is an instructive and profitable one. I. THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE OFTEN ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-8

Prophet and prophet. We are disposed to prefer the view which takes Hosea 9:7 to refer to the true prophet, Hosea himself; and verse 8 to the prophets Ephraim had set up for himself alongside of the true.—"Ephraim is a watcher with along with, but independently of my God"—prophets who were as "the snare of a fowler" to the people. I. THE TRUE PROPHET . (Verse 7) 1. What he saw . "The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come." The true prophet saw, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

These verses describe the season and source of punishment. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come. Commentators have appropriately compared the Vergilian " Venit summa dies, et irreluctabile tempus ," equivalent to" The final day and inevitable hour is come." Israel shall know (it): the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad . Here the prophet and the man of the spirit (margin) are In confirmation of (a) that of Israel against their fellow-men, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

There is no joy, any more than peace, to the sinner. However men put away from them the evil day, they can neither stave it off altogether nor delay its coming. I. THE CERTAINTY OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENTS OVERTAKING SINNERS . In the previous verse the prophetic past is used, to intimate that, though the event predicted had not yet taken place, yet was it as sure of accomplishment as if it had already occurred. Here the words "are come" are repeated to apprise sinners of its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:8

The watchman. Among the many similitudes employed to set forth the character and office of the prophet, the spiritual teacher and counselor of men, none is more striking than this. It is a figure employed also by Ezekiel and Habakkuk, and may be presumed accordingly to have commended itself to the judgment of the people generally, or at least of those who reverenced the Lord's messengers. Every preacher and teacher may be regarded as a watchman stationed on the wails, bound to give the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:9-10

Gibeah and Baal-peor. From this point the mind of the prophet reverts largely to the past. He sees mirrored in it both God's love and the people's sins. Allusion is made Lore to God's early love for Israel, and to the sins of Gibeah and Baal-peor. I. THE EVIL OF SIN IS SEEN BY COMPARISON WITH FORMER SINS , THE HEINOUSNESS OF WHICH ALL ADMIT . Two such outstanding sins of the past were those of Gibeah, and, at a still earlier period, of Baal-peor. The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:6

For lo, they are gone because of destruction - They had fled, for fear of destruction, to destruction. For fear of the destruction from Assyria, they were fled away and gone to Egypt, hoping, doubtless, to find there some temporary refuge, until the Assyrian invasion should have swept by. But, as befalls those who flee from God, they fell into more certain destruction.Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them - They had fled singly, in making their escape from the Assyrian. Egypt... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:7

The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. “They had put far away the evil day” Amos 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God’s purpose, those “days” were “come,” irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would “recompense each according to his works.”Israel shall know it - Israel would not know by believing it;... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God - These words may well contrast the office of the true prophet with the false. For Israel had had many true prophets, and such was Hosea himself now. The true prophet was at all times with “God.” He was “with God,” as holpen by God, “watching” or looking out and on into the future by the help of God. He was “with God,” as walking with God in a constant sense of His presence, and in continual communion with Him. He was “with God,” as associated by God with... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:9-10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:8

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