A77979:417
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.
But only here is a Scruple how can it be meant of Priests when the word in the Hebrew is in the feminine gender? Quest. Answ. That is answered thus, because of the effeminateness of these Priests, some of them were made Ev•ukes and so might be put into the feminine gender in that regard, and they were grown to be so sottish and filthy that they lost the very name of men. Therefore Aquila he turns it, Cum mutatis, 1so he calls those that were effeminate, they were changed from men into women, and so the Scripture speaks of men that have lost their true fortitude and are changed from it, they are called women or men of womanish spirits; And so the Heathen Poet Virgil, he calls the Trojans women not men, which he had from Homer, ⟨p. 164⟩*because they were rather to be of the feminine than the masculine gender.3 Therefore the Priests here of that unclean Idol had the feminine gender put upon them.
But only here is a Scruple how can it be meant of Priests when the word in the Hebrew is in the feminine gender? Quest. Answ. That is answered thus, because of the effeminateness of these Priests, some of them were made Ev•ukes and so might be put into the feminine gender in that regard, and they were grown to be so sottish and filthy that they lost the very name of men. Therefore Aquila he turns it, Cum mutatis, 1so he calls those that were effeminate, they were changed from men into women, and so the Scripture speaks of men that have lost their true fortitude and are changed from it, they are called women or men of womanish spi•i•s; And so the Heathen Poet Virgil, he calls the Trojans women not men, which he had from Homer, ⟨p. 164⟩*