the children of Judah, and the children of Israel; According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel; beloved of a paramour, and an adulteress. Download. Hosea is told, not as in the first instance to take her, but to show active love toward her-to love her. caloris, odoris, saporis optimi. The waters were just as sweet as when queens quaffed them two thousand years ago. Love flagons of wine - Literally, “of grapes,” or perhaps, more probably, “cakes of grapes,” i. e., dried raisins. As Jehovah lovers the sons of Israel, although or whilst they turn to other gods, i.e., break their marriage with Jehovah; so is the prophet to love the woman who commits adultery, or will commit adultery, notwithstanding his love, since the adultery could only take place when the prophet had shown to the woman the love commanded, i.e., had connected himself with her by marriage. HOSEA 3:1-5 AFTERWARDS THE ISRAELITES SHALL REPENT AND SEEK THE LORD THEIR GOD . Yahweh told Hosea to seek out in love the woman whom he formerly loved, Gomer, even though she was an adulteress. Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of, Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman â. These are loved not by the gods, but by the Israelites. If Hosea could still love the guilty and thankless woman, would not God still love the guilty and thankless nation, and by analogy the guilty and thankless soul? Absit. The festivity, or rather dissoluteness, which was used by the heathen in the worship of their gods, seems to have been one principal thing that made the Israelites so fond of their rites of worship. The sense is, that the prophet was to go to the people of Israel, and deliver this parable to them, setting forth their state and condition, and their behaviour towards God, and his great love to them, notwithstanding all their baseness and ingratitude; it was as if a woman that was either married or betrothed, or that either had a husband or a suitor that so dearly loved her, that though she was guilty of uncleanness, and continued in it, yet would not leave her; and which is thus expressed by the Targum, "go, deliver a prophecy against the house of Israel, who are like a woman dear to her husband; and though she commits fornication against him, yet he so loves her that he will not put her away:'. The woman, whom God commands him to love, he had loved before her fall; he was now to love her after her fall, and amid her fall, in order to rescue her from abiding in it. The Lord instructed His faithful prophet, Hosea, to marry an unfaithful woman. If we attach it to ‘go’ it is emphasising a further action of Hosea after the previous one. Thus, it was the love of Israel for the gross sensuality of the pagan cult which formed the principal motivation for their departure from the Lord. 1:2) lBible names often reveal character. a woman — purposely indefinite, for thy wife, to express the separation in which Hosea had lived from Gomer for her unfaithfulness. NIV ©: The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Hosea prophesied during a dark and melancholic era of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. Hosea 3:1-5. "Though they turn unto other gods ..." There is a stern echo of the first commandment of the Decalogue in this, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." The connection here pointed out between the idolatry of heart that seeks after other gods, and the self-indulgence in life that seeks after flagons--large quantities--of wine, is so truly universal, through all the ages it has been in evidence, and even now it constantly reappears, so that it may be regarded as necessary and essential. The task imposed upon the prophet was indeed great. In a vision it should seem, that the Lord spake to the Prophet in this manner. App-92. NET ©: The Lord said to me, “Go, show love to 1 your wife 2 again, even though she loves 3 another man 4 and continually commits adultery. "Jehovah said unto me ..." Hosea makes it clear throughout that the words and actions recorded here were not from himself but from the God of heaven. This question is regarding Hosea 3:1 “And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.” I have a question about the issue with the Israelites love of raisin cakes. The former seems to be its best sense here; רע rea is a friend; רע ra is evil. The substance of this chapter is, that it was Godâs purpose to keep in firm hope the minds of the faithful during the exile, lest being overwhelmed with despair they should wholly faint. That is why, again and again, the voice of menace breaks into sobs, and the funeral anthem is drowned, as it were, in angel melodies. "And love cakes of raisins ..." "These were delicacies made of flour and pressed raisins, figuratively representing the idolatrous worship. This looking to other gods, imports a turning towards them. Hence, Prof. Davidson, referring to Duhm, says: “Amos is the prophet of morality, of human right, of the ethical order in human life; but Hosea is a prophet of religion.” And to what unknown depths cannot God’s love pierce! All was ruin. Hosea the son of Beeri: The name Hosea means “salvation.” It comes from the same Hebrew root (hoshea) as the names Joshua and Jesus. render the words, αγαπωσαν πονηρα, loving evil things; a reading which accords with that of the Arabic and Syriac, and is approved both by Archbishop Newcome and Bishop Horsley; the former of whom renders the clause, A lover of evil, and the latter, addicted to wickedness, observing, “I adopt the rendering of the LXX. to protect and defend her, as harlots used to have one in particular they called their friend, by whose name they were called, and was a cover to them. Hosea 3:1 According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel. Hosea 3 New King James Version (NKJV) Israel Will Return to God. And such is the desire of novelty that prevails in the superstitious. If we read it with ‘said to me’ it puts the emphasis on the fact that this is a new word from YHWH. The restoration of Gomer. The Lord commissions the Prophet, under the same figure of an Adulteress, to set forth the very shameful departure of Israel from the Lord; and his grace in Christ for their recovery. Hosea 3:1 The ambiguous wording might be interpreted as referring to a different woman, but this time Hosea is told only to love her, not to take, i.e. (c) "quamvis respiciant", Piscator. Hosea 3:1. Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans." It would be possible very widely to illustrate this fact. How incredible are the comments of scholars who speak glibly of such things as realities. Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. All of the fiddling with these chapters (Hosea 1-3) which has been engaged in by scholars attributing this or that verse to some nameless "redactor," or by revising the order of the chapters, or shifting the date of the whole prophecy as a means of getting rid of his reference to future events, - all that, is due simply to a failure to read the message and understand it. What did Hosea mean when he said, “ the children of Israel will be without an image? The mind lodgeth in the eye, and looketh out at that window of wickedness. By the prophet taking unto him an adulteress is showed the desolation of Israel, and their restoration. It was indeed necessary that this difference should have been well impressed on the Israelites, that they might in exile entertain hope and patiently bear Godâs chastisement, and rise that this hope might mitigate the bitterness of sorrow. We also know that he had a wife named Gomer (Hosea 1:3), and two … She seeks cakes of raisins which are connected with the worship of her false gods, but it is the provisions of YHWH (silver and barley) that are used to purchase her. In this case, the verb love means to persistently pursue. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Go yet = Go again. Kazark. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. A. Israel has turned to the worship of pagan idols and the "raisin cakes" were part of the sacrificial feasts they participated in! Gomer is called “a woman,” in order to describe the state of separation, in which she was living. The human heart seeks constant gratification, but many of us, rather than finding eternal satisfaction in our endless God find short lived fulfillment in idols. Of this luxury the Israelites were fond; this fondness is used here as illustrating their love for things connected with the worship of the Baalim. flagons of wine — rather, pressed cakes of dried grapes, such as were offered to idols (Jeremiah 7:18) [Maurer]. Hosea and Gomer have three children together, each with a meaningful name: Jezreel (God was about to humble Israel in the Jezreel valley), Lo-Ruhama (meaning “not pitied”), and Lo-Ammi (meaning “not my people”). This was a sic so, without a sicut, like, there being nothing in nature that can possibly parallel it. Israel's Condition in Their Present Dispersion, Subsequent to Their Return from Babylon, Symbolized. Go yet; again, or once more; so it implieth he had once already been commanded and done some such-like thing. (Theodoret; St. Jerome). How? Hosea 3:1–3. Hebrew. The Prophet, I doubt not, compares this rage to drunkenness: and he mentions flagons of grapes rather than of wine, because idolaters are like drunkards, who sometimes so gorge themselves, that they have no longer a taste for wine; yea, the very smell of wine offends them, and produces nausea through excessive drinking; but they try new arts by which they may regain their fondness for wine. NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. a woman. The peculiar epithet applied to the woman can only be explained from the fact intended to be set forth by the symbolical act itself, and, as we have already shown at p. 22, is irreconcilable with the assumption that the command of God refers to a marriage to be really and outwardly consummated. And yet, at that time, Israel was the general name, 1 Kings 4:1.” The expression, And love flagons of wine, implies, that they loved to drink wine in the temples of their idols. "As a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye, deals treacherously with me, O, house of Israel. Others think that the words should be translated cakes of dried grapes, sweet cakes, consecrated wafers. asked May 21 '12 at 19:27. What does this verse really mean? The Jehovah religion alone requires righteousness and purity. How wonderful that a holy God should have good-will to those whose carnal mind is enmity against Him! God's regard for Israel; their ingratitude. ; or of wine made of them; or lumps of raisins, cakes or junkets made of them and other things, as the Septuagint; and may respect either the drunkenness and intemperance of the ten tribes; see Isaiah 28:1, they loved, as Kimchi says, the delights of the world, and not the law and commandments of God; or the feasts that were made in the temples of their idols they loved good eating and drinking, and that made them like idolatry the better for the sake of those things; see Exodus 32:6, for the Heathens used to eat and drink to excess at their sacrifices: hence DiogenesF5Laertius in Vit. On the Third Day, meaning? Early in the first chapter we hear the word of the Lord coming to Hosea, the son of Beri, Who told him to take a wife of harlotry. Agonising experience had taught him that human love, so poor, so frail, so mixed with selfishness--human love, whose wings are torn and soiled so easily, and which droops before wrong like a flower at the breath of a sirocco,--even human love, though disgraced by faithlessness, though dragged through the mire of shame, can still survive. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:18, Deuteronomy 31:20). They were wont to pour out wine to their false gods, and, it is probable, drank the remainder even to excess. The woman mentioned here represents one who was a lawful wife joining herself to a … The “wine” would betoken the excess common in idolatry, and the bereavement of understanding: the cakes denote the sweetness and lusciousness, yet still the dryness, of any gratification out of God, which is preferred to Him. According to the love â Let this be the emblem of my love to the children of Israel. The prophet had before spoken of God’s reconciliation with His people; and He magnificently extolled that favour when He said, “Ye shall be as in the valley of Achor, I will restore to you the abundance of all blessings; in a word, ye shall be in all respects happy.” But, in the meantime, the daily misery of the people continued. The sense is, that the prophet was to go to the people of Israel, and deliver this parable to them, setting forth their state and condition, and their behaviour towards God, and his great love to them, notwithstanding all their baseness and ingratitude; it was as if a woman that was either married or betrothed, or that either had a husband or a suitor that so dearly loved her, that though she was guilty of uncleanness, and continued in it, yet would not leave her; and which is thus expressed by the Targum, "go, deliver a prophecy against the house of Israel, who are like a woman dear to her husband; and though she commits fornication against him, yet he so loves her that he will not put her away:''. Woman. Though she is fickle, and readily accepts the love of another, the prophet is to take her back. This is a Holy Spirit-inspired analogy with Hosea as the Lord and his adulterous wife Gomer as wayward Israel. do not fail to remark this grace of God, for surely it is most precious. See the NET note for details. Unto me; Hosea. A different woman is here meant from that which he had before espoused. according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel; or such is the love of the Lord to them; for though they were guilty of idolatry, intemperance, and other immoralities, yet still he loved them, and formed designs of grace and goodness for them. The prophet is to take back his wife, though unfaithful, as foretold in Hosea 1:2.He purchases her from her paramour, stipulating she should wait for a long period before she should be restored to her conjugal rights. Hosea 3:1 Then the LORD said to me, "Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Those clergy locusts lick up all; those abbey lubbers are good for nothing but to devour grain, like vermin; those wine bibbers and flesh mongers (as Solomon calleth them) are no better than the excrements of human society, gelulim, belly gods, and fit servants of those dung hill gods, as idols are called, Habakkuk 2:18-19 cf. The first denoted the infidelity of the kingdom of Israel, and God's divorce of them. The words seem, in general, to express their leaving the service of the true God, and imitating the idolaters, in following after false gods, bodily delights and pleasures, as gluttony, drunkenness, and the like, which the service of idols did not only permit, but require. And love flagons of wine] Luxury is the ordinary companion of idolatry, as Exodus 32:6, 1 Corinthians 10:7, Revelation 18:13-14. By his love the prophet is to overcome the evil tendencies. See the signification of the sign in verses: Hosea 4:5, and compare Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 31:2. God wanted the Nation of Israel to be faithful to Him just as Hosea wanted his wife Gomer to be faithful to him. He loved her, before she fell, for the woman was "beloved of her friend, and yet an adulteress." (d) "dolia uvarum", Pagninus, Montanus, Zanchius; "soa", some in Drusius. She forsaketh me, saith he, who give her all the good she either hath or hopeth for, and followeth after those that put bottles of wine to her mouth, she loves those flagons, &c. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, &c.: howbeit I will not relinquish her, but will love her freely as if she had never offended me. Diogenis, p. 382. beloved of her friend—used for "her husband," on account of the estrangement between them. What does it mean to attain something? The overriding nature of Israel's apostasy was distinctly a religious thing. The "wine" would betoken the excess common in idolatry, and the bereavement of understanding: the cakes denote the sweetness and lusciousness, yet still the dryness, of any gratification out of God, which is preferred to Him. (Calmet) --- Grace is still offered to sinners, whose persons are never hated by God. So Israel is to live for a long period without her ancient rites of religion, and yet be free from idolatry; then at last she shall acknowledge Messiah, and know Jehovah‘s goodness restored to her. Hosea and Gomer have three children together, each with a meaningful name: Jezreel (God was about to humble Israel in the Jezreel valley), Lo-Ruhama (meaning “not pitied”), and Lo-Ammi (meaning “not my people”). God forbid. Referring to Israel"s present condition in this Dispensation (App-12). Jer. (Hos 3:1) God commands Hosea to love Gomer again. Hosea 3:1 reads (ESV): And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”. 44:19). It was a dreadful thing, that God should divorce his people and cast away the Israelites as spurious children: but a consolation was afterwards added. OR Select a range of biblical books. look to other gods. Intro: To understand the book of Hosea, one must understand the background against which was written. These the Greeks called εταιρους, fellow friends; the whore was called εταιρα: so they flattered their own vices, putting gilded names on them, as our blades name drunkenness good fellowship, harlots, she sinners, &c. The Septuagint render it a woman that loveth naughty things or naughty packs. Thus Hosea would not be involved in the adultery of which the woman was guilty. Why do you think God asked Hosea to take the radical step of marrying a woman other men would have despised? And the root idea of nature religions is the glorifying of sexual relations. It is disputed as to whether ‘again’ should be attached to ‘Go’, or whether it should be attached to ‘said to me’. or Furthermore. 1. Not "take", as in Hosea 1:2, or love again. Some think that the words, rendered here flagons, or goblets, of wine, should be translated cakes of dried grapes. whether there be such affection in human-kindness, that a man will still go on to love a woman that is requiting his affection with committing adultery. Osee does not marry this woman, but gives his word. The reference is to cakes used in connection with the sacrifices (Jeremiah 7:18), partly as offerings to the deity and partly in the feasts accompanying some of the sacrifices. A different woman from the person whom he had espoused before seems evidently to be intended. They had turned from following Him to worship other gods, and they loved the raisin cakes that were evidently part of their worship (cf. A woman. According to the book, the apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve both the calves of Jeroboam and Baal, a Canaanite god.. Hosea 2:1 "Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah." According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel. Then, or And, Heb. and sowing them like seed in Judah. The woman, whom God commands him to love, he had loved before her fall; he was now to love her after her fall, and amid her fall, in order to rescue her from abiding in it. (T. G. Love flagons of wine - Literally, "of grapes," or perhaps, more probably, "cakes of grapes," i. e., dried raisins. According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel - The prophet is directed to frame his life, so as to depict at once the ingratitude of Israel or the sinful soul, and the abiding, persevering, love of God. For the lesson which he learnt was this. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Hosea son of Beeri and this chapter is about the symbol of Israel's condition in their present dispersion, subsequent to their return from Babylon. Excerpted with permission from Less Than Perfect by Ann Spangler, copyright Ann Spangler. The last clause, “and loving grape-cakes,” does not apply to the idols, who would be thereby represented either as lovers of grape-cakes, or as those to whom grape-cakes were offered (Hitzig), but is a continuation of ×¤Ö¼× ××, indicating the reason why Israel turned to other gods. He afterwards says, According to the love of Jehovah towards the children of Israel; that is, As God loved the people of Israel, who yet ceased not to look to other gods. God had indeed determined to remove them into Babylon. Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, &c.] This yet is emphatic: and it is as if he had said, Go over the same subject again in shorter discourse, and lay before them the same truths, but in more lively colours, that the obstinate may be left without excuse, and the penitent may not be left without comfort. Indeed it was the only general appellation, before the captivity of the ten tribes; afterward, the kingdom of Judah only remaining, Jews came into use as the name of the whole race, which before had been the appropriate name of the kingdom of Judah. marry her.Also, the application of the symbolism to God’s relationship with Israel seems to depend upon the woman’s being Gomer. It occurs, for the first time 2 Kings 16., in the history of Ahaz. Certainly, he could not have loved Gomer with the same emotional passion for her which might have existed at first. Thus St. Jerome and St. Cyril of Alexandria understand the words, considering the connection here spoken of as a new one, formed after the dismission of Gomer; in which opinion they are followed by Estius, Menochius, Tirinus, and many other expositors. Hosea 3:1-5.ISRAEL'S CONDITION IN THEIR PRESENT DISPERSION, SUBSEQUENT TO THEIR RETURN FROM BABYLON, SYMBOLIZED. NET Hosea 3:1 The LORD said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. The flagons of wine were probably such as were used for libations, or drunk in idol feasts. רע denotes a friend or companion, with whom one cherishes intercourse and fellowship, never a fellow-creature generally, but simply the fellow-creature with whom one lives in the closest intimacy (Exodus 20:17-18; Exodus 22:25, etc.). Hosea 3:1 "Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine." What Does Hosea 1:4 Mean? ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. It is of very special significance that in this chapter, no reconciliation appears; there is no acceptance of Gomer into any conjugal relationship with Hosea; there is certainly no new marriage, nor any resumption of the old one. The reason why some cannot understand Hosea 3 is that they missed the point in Hosea 2, which was the divorce, depicting God's repudiation of Israel as "the chosen people." Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. This is to whet the word of God upon people (as Moses’ phrase is) by going oft over the same thing, as the knife doth the whetstone. the best warmth, fragrance and taste. Hosea 3:1 ESV. — The symbolism, the form of expression, and. (Jeremiah 3:20, "As a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye, deals treacherously with me, O, house of Israel.") But to say that this is a love story raises the question of the defintion of love. He loves even those who do not reciprocate, and even those who insult Him, when they are His chosen. Search a pre-defined list . (Cicero tells of the image of Hercules cuius mentum osculis adorantium attritum fuit who chin he will kiss and rub, and the Papists so kiss their pictures, that hard marble is worn with it, saith Sir Edwin Sands an eyewitness.) Hosea 3:1. But wonderful was the patience of God, when he ceased not to love a people, whom he had found to be so perverse, that they could not be turned by any acts of kindness nor retained by any favors. It probably does not mean to feel fond of or be physically attracted to, but to actively show love in reclaiming an adulterous wife from a life of … But I shall first run over the words, and then return to the subject, Jehovah said to me, Go yet and love a woman. and Syriac, which nothing opposes but the Masoretic pointing.” And an adulteress — That is, who had been such, and that not only in the spiritual sense, of forsaking God, but according to the carnal meaning of the term. An adulteress â Either already tainted, or that certainly will be tainted with that vice. The house of Israel, and sometimes Israel by itself, is a particular appellation of the ten tribes, a distinct kingdom from Judah. “Friend or neighbor” too is the word chosen by our Lord to express His own love, the love of the good Samaritan, who, not being akin, became “neighbor to Him who fell among thieves,” and had mercy upon him. Of this luxury the Israelites were fond; this fondness is used here as illustrating their love for things connected with the worship of the Baalim. This may refer to her ancestry or to her future downfall. b. Hosea the son of Beeri: The name Hosea means "salvation." Compare Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2. abide. 1. Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:19). She was still beloved of her husband, though an adulteress; just as God still loved Israel, though idolatrous (Jer 3:20). ... One of the most touching illustration is seen in the true-life love-story of Hosea, his wife and his family. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel - The prophet is directed to frame his life, so as to depict at once the ingratitude of Israel or the sinful soul, and the abiding, persevering, love of God. It was then only a vision, as though God had set a picture before the eyes of the people, in which they might see their own conduct. O matchless mercy! 0 comments. F. Ramirez, SJ. The word is undoubtedly used in Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:20, and Song of Solomon 5:16, with reference to a husband, but never of a fornicator or adulterous paramour. Thus, the event of the prophet's purchase of Gomer after she became a slave occurs in the narrative just exactly at the right place the more perfectly to present that analogy. Gomer is now the concubine slave of anotherâpossibly in poor and destitute condition. Throughout the book, Hosea will show us that salvation is found in turning to the LORD and away from our sin. Love flagons of wine; loved the feasts of their idols, where they drank wine to excess, by too great measures, which, without dispute, was usual in the idol feasts, Amos 2:8 1 Corinthians 10:21; or else these flagons of wine speak their loose, drunken, and riotous living. The Book of Hosea says that, during Hosea's lifetime, the kings of … How wonderful that a holy God should have good-will to those whose carnal mind is enmity against Him! For a day with the LORD is like 1,000 years. Lest, then, such charms deceive us, let us learn to cleave firmly and constantly to the word of the Lord. 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