A69234:599
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…
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text is expounded and cleared, and such profitable instructions observed, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holy Scripture, and are fit for these times. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text is exponded and cleered, and such profitable instructions obserued, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holie Scripture, and are fit for these times. By Iohn Dovvname Bacheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston and T. East for William Welby, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Others translate these words thus; I will allure her after I have led her into the wilderness: as though the time were herein implied, when the Lord would persuade and convert his people, namely, after he had first brought them into the wilderness of affliction, and thereby throughly humbled them. But howsoever this exposition may be thought not repugnant to any thing in the text, yet I rather embrace the other, as being more plain and simple, without the changing of any word from his own signification, and also because it more fitly answereth to the deliverance of the people of Israel, ⟨p. 246⟩unto which it is manifest he here alludeth: and lastly, because it well agreeth with the like place, Ezech. 20. 34. 35. 37. where the same allusion is used.1
Others translate these words thus; I will allure her after I haue led her into the wildernesse: as though the time were herein implied, when the Lord would perswade and conuert his people, namely, after he had first brought them into the wildernesse of affliction, and thereby throughly humbled them. But howsoeuer this exposition may be thought not repugnant to any thing in the text, yet I rather embrace the other, as being more plaine and simple, without the changing of any word from his owne signification, and also because it more fitly answereth to the deliuerance of the people of Israel, ⟨p. 246⟩vnto which it is manifest he here alludeth: and lastly, because it well agreeth with the like place, Ezech. 20. 34. 35. 37. where the same allusion is vsed.1
- 1Ezeth. 20. 34. 35.