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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 12
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.
1. The reading of the words. 2. The scope of the words, what it is that God aimeth at in them. 3. The reason of the difference of the expression, A moth to Ephraim, and rottenness to Judah. 4. When this was, what time this referreth to, when was God a moth to Israel and rottenness unto Judah? 5. How and in what respects God may be said to be a moth and rottenness to a people. ⟨p. 476⟩6. The several observations to be drawn from it.
All this is necessary for the opening of this twelfth verse.
1For the first then, The reading of the words. The Seventy read the words a little different from this reading of ours in the English,2 [Greek or Hebrew]. Conturbatio ac stimulus, I will be a trouble unto Ephraim and a prick unto Judah. I will trouble, prick, goad them, I will vex them. The blessed God who is a rest unto His people; He is a trouble, a prick, and goad to vex His enemies, to vex the ungodly. The old Latin,3 and so Hi•rom readeth it thus, Ego tanquam tinea Ephraim, I will be as a moth unto Ephraim; he readeth the first as we do in our books: but the second, Quasi & putredo domni Judah. Others as Munster, Leo Judah, Drusius, render it, quasi teredimis. Teredo is a worm that eateth out the heart of the strongest wood. Minutissimus vermiculus, saith Luther upon the place; And Pliny saith it is the worm that breeds in Ships at Sea, and eateth out the heart of the strongest Oake• planks at Sea: but yet often translated rottenness, because the worm causeth that wood to be rotten.