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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.
But let us come to the words. And I said unto her: that is, after I the Prophet had bought the Adulteress in my vision, I did likewise in vision say unto her, Thou shalt abide me: The words are, Thou shalt sit for me: which in this phrase of speech have this sense, Thou shalt wait for me. So Exod. 124. 14. the same phrase is used, Sit for us here, that is, tarry and wait for us. The meaning is, I will not marry thee ⟨p. 20⟩presently, but thou shalt wait my leisure, for as yet thou art not fit to be my spouse, seeing thou art not cleansed from thy Adulteries, neither as yet have I had sufficient experience of thine unfeigned repentance. Where he alludeth to the rite in the old Law. Deut. 21. 13. which required that those 2who had taken Captives, and desired to make them their wives, should not presently marry them, but keep them in their house a Month, till they were after a Legal manner purged from their Gentilism.
But let vs come to the words. And I said vnto her: that is, after I the Prophet had bought the Adultresse in my vision, I did likewise in vision say vnto her, Thou shalt abide me: The words are, Thou shalt sit for me: which in this phrase of speach haue this sence, Thou shalt waite for me. So Exod. 124. 14. the same phrase is vsed, Sit for vs here, that is, tarry and waite for vs. The meaning is, I will not marry thee ⟨p. 20⟩presently, but thou shalt wait my leasure, for as yet thou art not fit to bee my spouse, seeing thou art not cleansed from thy Adultries, neyther as yet haue I had sufficient experience of thine vnfained repentance. Where he alludeth to the rite in the old Law.