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Hosea 2:14-23
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| Historical References, Commentary and Comparative
Texts:
 | John Calvin's
Commentary on Hosea.
 | "Here the Lord
more clearly expresses, that after having long, and in various ways,
afflicted the people, he would at length be propitious to them; and
not only so, but that he would also make all their punishments to be
conducive to their salvation, and to be medicines to heal their
diseases." |
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| From the Geneva Notes.
| "By my benefits
in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will
think herself destitute of all help and comfort." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "By the promise
of rest in Christ we are invited to take his yoke upon us; and the
work of conversion may be forwarded by comforts as well as by
convictions. But usually the Lord drives us to despair of earthly
joy, and help from ourselves, that, being shut from every other
door, we may knock at Mercy's gate." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "When the earth
is dry, it does as it were, cry to the heavens for refreshing
showers, when the seed sown, the vines and olives planted, are at a
stand, they cry to the earth for its kindly influences, that they
may spring up, and yield fruit for Jezreel, which may call, and cry,
but never will be satisfied if God does not hear them, and command
his blessing which he promises to his people on renewing covenant
with them." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "The wilderness
sojourn, however, is not literal, but moral: while still in the land
of their enemies locally, by the discipline of the trial
rendering the word of God sweet to them, they are to be brought morally
into the wilderness state, that is, into a state of preparedness for
returning to their temporal and spiritual privileges in their own
land; just as the literal wilderness prepared their fathers for
Canaan: thus the bringing of them into the wilderness state is
virtually a deliverance from their enemies." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Hosea 1:2-10, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in
Australia.
| "The marriage is an indictment against
Israel and the names of the children are the judgement." |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Hosea
2: Structure and Interpretation," David J. A. Clines, On
the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998.
| "Obviously, insofar as this is
a narrative poem, analysis of plot lays bare the essentials of what
is going on in the narrative, and so serves as orientation to our
reading of the poem." |
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"Spiritual
Restoration in the Prophecy of Hosea 2:16-25," Yoon-Hee Kim, Torch
Trinity Graduate School of Theology Journal, 2001. |
| 4Q166
"Hosea Commentary" fragment on Hosea 2:8-14, from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
| "This text is a commentary, or
"pesher," on the prophetic biblical verses from the book
of Hosea (2:8-14). The verse presented here refers to the relation
of God, the husband, to Israel, the unfaithful wife. In the
commentary, the unfaithful ones have been led astray by "the
man of the lie." The document states that the affliction
befalling those led astray is famine. Although this famine could be
a metaphor, it may well be a reference to an actual drought cited in
historical sources of that time." |
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"Who is
Battering Whom?" by Dr. David R. Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory
University.
| "If we must
admit that God is sometimes abusive, we also know, however, that God
is not always abusive. God is usually loving and fair; God is often
kind and merciful. We know, from our own experience or from that of
others, that God is, indeed, these things too. Our gratitude for
God's fairness, love, kindness, and mercy does not stop us, however,
from acknowledging God's abusiveness. What, then, is a proper stance
toward God?" |
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"The
Best for Our Family," by Desmond M. Tutu
at The Living Pulpit.
| "We are active participants
with God in the struggle for justice." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Mitchell, Matthew W.,
"Hosea 1-2 and the Search for Identity," Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament, 2004.
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| Silva, Charles H., "The Literary Structure of Hosea
1-3," Bibliotheca Sacra, 2007.
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| Yee, Gayle A., "'She Is Not My Wife and I Am Not Her
Husband': A Materialist Analysis of Hosea 1-2," Biblical
Interpretation, 2001.
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| Sermons: |
| Reviews:
| Kelle, Brad E. Hosea 2: Metaphor and
Rhetoric in Historical Perspective. Society of Biblical
Literature/Brill, 2005.
Reviews
by Joseph Cathey and Anselm Hagedorn, Review of Biblical Literature,
2006. |
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