Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text…Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text…

Now under these particulars here named, he understandeth all kind of benefits necessary either for their sustenance and preservation, or for their pleasure and delight. For by bread and water in the Scriptures is usually signified all kind of meat and drink, food and sustenance, as appeareth, Exo. 34. 28. Deut. 23. 4. 1. King. 13. 17. Esa. 3. 1. By wool and ¹flax is understood all kind of clothing, apparel, and furniture made of them. By oil and drink is understood all their pleasures and delicacies; for oil in those hot countries was used for pleasure, ornament, smell, agility and strength: and by drink is meant not ordinary drink, for that he comprehendeth under the name of water, but their drinks which were most costly and delicate: and further the word here used is of the plural number, and derived from such a root, as signifieth to drink abundantly, whereby is understood ⟨p. 189⟩their plenty of such delicacies.

Now vnder these particulars here named, hee vnderstandeth all kind of benefits necessarie either for their sustenance and preseruation, or for their pleasure and delight. For by bread and water in the Scriptures is vsually signified all kind of meate and drinke, food and sustenance, as appeareth, Exo. 34. 28. Deut. 23. 4. 1. King. 13. 17. Esa. 3. 1. By wooll and ¹flaxe is vnderstood all kind of clothing, apparrell, and furniture made of them. By oyle and drinke is vnderstood all their pleasures and delicacies; for oyle in those hot countries was vsed for pleasure, ornament, smell, agilitie and strength: and by drinke is meant not ordinarie drinke, for that hee comprehendeth vnder the name of water, but their drinkes which were most costly and delicate: and further the word here vsed is of the plurall number, and deriued from such a roote, as signifieth to drinke abundantlie, whereby is vnderstood