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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 11:1 - 11:1
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Hos 11:1-12. God’s former benefits, and Israel’s ingratitude resulting in punishment, yet Jehovah promises restoration at last.
Hos 11:5 shows this prophecy was uttered after the league made with Egypt (2Ki 17:4).
Israel ... called my son out of Egypt - Bengel translates, “From the time that he (Israel) was in Egypt, I called him My son,” which the parallelism proves. So Hos 12:9 and Hos 13:4 use “from ... Egypt,” for “from the time that thou didst sojourn in Egypt.” Exo 4:22 also shows that Israel was called by God, “My son,” from the time of his Egyptian sojourn (Isa 43:1). God is always said to have led or brought forth, not to have “called,” Israel from Egypt. Mat 2:15, therefore, in quoting this prophecy (typically and primarily referring to Israel, antitypically and fully to Messiah), applies it to Jesus’ sojourn in Egypt, not His return from it. Even from His infancy, partly spent in Egypt, God called Him His son. God included Messiah, and Israel for Messiah’s sake, in one common love, and therefore in one common prophecy. Messiah’s people and Himself are one, as the Head and the body. Isa 49:3 calls Him “Israel.” The same general reason, danger of extinction, caused the infant Jesus, and Israel in its national infancy (compare Genesis 42:1-43:34; Gen 45:18; Gen 46:3, Gen 46:4; Eze 16:4-6; Jer 31:20) to sojourn in Egypt. So He, and His spiritual Israel, are already called “God’s sons” while yet in the Egypt of the world.