Introduction
Under the figure of a wife proving false to her marriage vows, and bearing children that would follow her example, the prophet represents the shameful idolatry of the ten tribes, which provoked God to cast them of. The whole passage is information by action instead of words. This names of the children are all emblematical. The first is intended to put Israel in mind of their unrepented guilt, and the acts of cruelty committed in their palace of Jezreel, ( 1 Kings 21:1 .) The second and third, signifying not finding mercy, and not my people, denote that, in consequence of their guilt, they were to be rejected of God, Hosea 1:1-9 . God promises, however, to repair the loss to his Church by calling in the Gentiles, Hosea 1:10 ; and by uniting all the children of God under one head, the Messiah, in the latter days, Hosea 1:11 .
Be the first to react on this!
