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the Lord. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 .
Go yet = Go again. See notes on Hosea 1:2 .
love. Not "take", as in Hosea 1:2 , or love again.
a woman. Not "Gomer" (Hosea 1:3 ) again, but another; hence we must believe that Gomer had died; and that this was a second marriage with its own special signification.
her friend : i. e. Hosea himself.
yet, &c. = though [she has become] an adulteress. Referring to Israel's present condition in this Dispensation ( App-12 ).
adulteress: i. e. an idolatress; and denotes only a woman of the northern tribes.
according, &c. This is the manifestation of Divine love.
children = sons.
look to other gods. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:18 , Deuteronomy 31:20 ).
flagons of wine = cakes of grapes.
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