Matthew Poole Commentary - Hosea 1:8

Matthew Poole Commentary - Hosea 1:8 - 1:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Hosea 1:8 - 1:8

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1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
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1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11

Though some wrest the words to an allegorical sense, I think the prophet keeps the decorum in the similitude, and therefore, as women ordinarily conceive not whilst they give suck, so this Gomer weaned her daughter ere she conceived the son which is to be an emblem of the final rejection of the ten tribes.

Bare a son, to be a third sign to this incorrigible and self-undoing kingdom.