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An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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3. It could not be that it was a real thing,1 but a vision from the prophecy it self, for then Hosea must have stayed almost a whole year before he could have gone on in his prophecy: For first he must take to him a wife of whoredoms, and beget a child of whoredoms, then he must have stayed till the child had been born, before he could have come to the people and say, My child is borne, and his name is Jezreel, and it is upon this ground that I have named him thus, and then he must have stayed almost a year more before he could have Locuhamah, and then after that he must stay almost another year longer before Loammi could be born.
3. It could not be that it was a reall thing,1 but a vision from the prophesie it selfe, for then Hosea must have stayed almost a whole yeare before hee could have gone on in his prophesie: For first he must take to him a wife of whoredomes, and beget a child of whoredomes, then he must have stayed till the child had been born, before he could have come to the people and say, My child is borne, and his name is Iezreel, and it is upon this ground that I have named him thus, and then hee must have stayed almost a yeare more before he could have Locuhamah, and then after that he must stay almost another yeare longer before Loammi could be born.
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And lastly,1 that which is noted by Polanus, the expression that we have here is, that God spake in Hosea, speaking and appearing to him by an inward vision as it were in an ecstasy, saith Polanus; therefore we must take it so that this wife of whoredoms that Hosea was to marry, was in a way of vision, it was to signify that Israel was to God as a wife of whoredoms, and as children of whoredoms should have been to the Prophet if he had been married to her.