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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 4 › Verse 14
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.
For themselves are separated with whores.
For themselves.] Ipsi. Here God chargeth the persons (your daughters and your spouses, for they are separated with whores) per modum indignationis, so interpreters note upon the place,1 God chargeth the persons by way of indignation. As when one man is speaking to another and his anger riseth, he turns from him and speaks to some body else, so God seems here to have his anger so arise against his people, that he turns as it were from them as if he did speak to some body else, though indeed he meaneth them; themselves are separated, or divided themselves,
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Junius 1reads it only so, they have separated; and so addeth to it Res opimas, they have separated fat and plentiful things, their choice and rich things that they had at home, so he carries the meaning and not improbably, the best meat they had or any precious thing they had at home, they would set it apart under pretence of consecrating it to a religious use, and then when they went to sacrifice they would eat that among their whores, and so deceive their spouses at home, and say they would set this apart for their gods and so carry it ⟨p. 161⟩and spend it among their whores. That is the interpretation he makes upon the word Separate.