PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Hosea
John James Given [1853-1943] · 418,632 words · 462 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Hosea — Section 1
THE PULPIT COMMENTARY, EDITED BY THE VERY REV. H. D. M. SPENCE, D.D., DEAN OF GLOUCESTER; AND BY THE REV. JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY THE VERY REV. F. W. FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S., DEAN OF CANTERBURY. RIGHT REV. H. COTTERILL, D.D., F.R.8.E. VERY REV. PRINCIPAL J. TULLOCH, D.D. REV. CANON G. RAWL…
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(oh.viii. 9, 10), "hired lovers 11,mong the nations "-appealed either to Aeeyria or Egypt for that aeeietance which they ought to have asked from the Lord. To these consequences the echiem inaugurated by Jeroboam the son of Nobat had inevitably led. And, though thie eepa.ration was now of long standing, and had been ac…
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treatment at the hands of enemies (eh. ix. 10-x. 15). He returns to the contrast between God's dealings and the people's ingratita.de, which merited the severest punishment; but even here God's love and pity protest age.inst hie justice : " How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? how shall I deliver thee, Israel ? My heart…
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The only fe.et in the prophet's life with which we !11'8 acquainted is hi11 martio.ge with e, woman called Gomer at God's command ( eh. i. 2, etc.): "Go, te,ke utito thee," Mo.id God to him, "e. wi£e df whoredoms and children of whoredoms,'' by.which union he was to off!ll" to hie people a symbolical representation 0£ …
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some six yee.rs before its close. This reckoning would e.llow about fifty years for the do.re.tion of Hosee.'s prophetical life. Bo.t late discoveries he.ve given ree.eon to suppose that Jotham we.s joint sovereign with his fother, and that Ahaz also we.s sole monarch for a very short time. This alters Hezekiah's date …
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could look forward to a restored people and a repaired polity. The ten tribes had no separate future. Their tempotal punishment WM irreversible. It was only as associated with, and absorbed in, Joda.h that they could hope for restored vitality. This feeling colours all the prophet'.s language and darkens bis mental vi…
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Bhe.11 no more be remembered by their name;" e.nd Exod. xxiii, 18. Ch. vi. 2, "We Bhe.ll live in his sight;" and Gen. xvii. 18. Oh. xii. 6 (6, Hebrew), "Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial·" 11,nd Exod. iii. 15, "This is my Ne.me for ever, and this is my memorie.i," Ch. ix. 4, "Bread of monl'Jlers …
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EXPOSITION. record. It continued during the reigns of CHAPTER L the four kings of Judah above mentioned, Ver. 1.-The word of the Lord that came and during tha.t of Jeroboam II. Kiug of =to Hosea, the son of Jleeri. The prophets Israel, which wa.s in part coincident with nre divided into the former (rishonim, Zeeb. t…
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1n ,TPlrn 1hRl hia aonB 'l\'Ouln ait npon the itR <'on~trnd stnfo hy tl10 subRtRntlve.l idcn. thrnn<:' In 1h<' fnnrth g<:'nel'fttion, while Jero- of 1.lw suc-c-crding subordinated clnuse; thus: bnRm, ,Jehn'• greRt-gi-11,ndson, w11,a tho Inst "At 1.hc commcn<'ement of • Jehovn.h epake,' king nf thnt dYn11,stv hv whom…
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can ec11rooly understand it of o. vision; for children by her, not take such a wife anri thoro ie no mention of or reference to rmy- such children alreo.dy bnrn to her. This thing· of tho.t kincl in the poeeoge, nor cloee tho view is favoured by the Vulgnte, 8U11M tibi context oountonance the notion of a vision, ino…
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,1a'bhal, to prt>ss together into " mass, c-spc- hftd visited his people In giving them cially " round mRse. The mcaning of the bread; " sometimes It expresses a hostile word, then, is "two ook(III," thRl is, of dried intention, as iu Exoci. xx. 6, "I the Lord figs prcssl'd to~cthcr in lnmpB. It m11y be thy God am a je…
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Dr1r1l, but he clave to the calves of Jeroboam when God would punish the sins of both at Dothol nnd Dan-the fundamental sin of tho princes and people of Israel. The closi; tho kings of Ierael. In what he did, there- of Jehu's dyne.sty was at once the prepara- fon•, tlrn net itself woe right, for God com- tion for and t…
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ing) ,.. tti" ~ ~ ar· t'61\t'l' .titilh ft ln,Jlfflldell '4111ter new •phriH1, n1 M<l d ~ n ~ and JCl~l; tbl' al10 111'1 abnw tho Jll'!llpeol of dellvonnco to ~ t\f hh t,(,a· depriwd him (If hi~ bo htttMileH, 'J'he otianp 11f aex may tn- cltfof -JW'll· UtCl hift hun at the mGN1y (If dtoate the tot.ality of the natinn…
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Bmple of the 111mo 2 Sam. Ill. 90, htJrtlJfJ l)ln111g r,J,, IL 5, 11, 22; iii. 4; alllf iY. rn. t,.alnlB, for l!tfi-aliner. 'fho flyr!oo V,inl,m t1 'rho m11.11ni,r fff tbi• ooli•1n"'nr--" i• "'fff lllmtlBr, A more feafl'lblo ren<lorlng, If tbe J)'?C1llfar aml T.IJIIJ#IJal; .,,hi!.-, p!'(JIJJIDP,1l"-" me,inlng of " take…
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bring together Rgnin. Bnt Lo-~u.hammah, llllall be 1&i.d nnto \hem, Ye are the sons of Unpitied, or Uncomp888ionatcd, imports an- the living God. The pie.co where this great other and a still hel\\ier blow ; and, though ohange takes pince is either tho pl11ce where <lisp,•rsed fe.r an,l near, nnd though left in thei…
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symbollco.lly, e.s tl10 fulfilment of the pro- the true Shepherd ofisrael, may dennt.e thci r phot's vivid picturo. Wo must look to gospel restor!ltion out ot a.II tho countries of tlu•ir times o.nd gospel scenes for the re11lize.tion of dispersion to their ancient territory, a.gain the l(lorinus promise under consider…
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HOMILETICS. V~rs. l--3.-77ie sj,n ~f Israel, ~harply reprO'Ved. The great sin, the root-sin we may call 1t, of Israel at this time was idolatry. But that sin was not alone ; it was a.<"•re.- ,-e.ted, as usual, by accompanying abominations. All alona, from the period ofeothe disruption, idolatry had been their beset…
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channel of that authority through whom it ie conveyed. It was through the two Person~ of the blessed Trinity-Son and Father, agent and origin, medium and source-11. direct Divine commission. So with the prophet in this introductory passage. But be not m;ily held hie commission from God, he had his instructions· from…
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DRmascue, the capi~l of Syria, though that city had been lost even in the days of Solomon, together with Hamath on the Orontef, the key of Eastern Syria, thus checking ifrwt crushing that hostile power. The northern kingdom had reached an unprecedented height of wealth and power; the sovereign hi\d been triumphant i…
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1iynasty of Jeh11 became extinct; while fifty years l\fterwarde the very kingdom over which that dynasty had ruled ceased altogether to exist. In the interval that elap~ed between the extinction of the dynasty of Jehu and the total cessation of the kingdom of Israel a crushing defeat had been sustained iu the valley of…
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Jn,, lincsF of the royal house of Judah; in other words, the ARsyrian and the .Saviour. 'J his contl'l\llt is couched in t.he followinf!: poetic 111,nguage: "'l'he Lord of hosts sh11,II lop t.he bough with terror [i.e. terrific force]: and the high ones of stature Ah11,ll bo hewn down, and the b11,ughty shall lie lo…
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Hhl\11 I seml you my prophets, no more make known to you my promiseR; in a word " 11nd including the whole," I will no more bo your Go<l." Similar to the oriainal worrl.➔ is thnt beautiful expression in Canticles, "My beloved is mine, and I am his ,f' (an-i l,dodi v'dodi li). Vera. 10, 11.-There is salvation in store …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Yer. 1.-77ul prophet and his work. This subject may be appropriately introduced wit.h some remarks about the minor prophets. They are" minor," not bece.use their work was of l~ss conseq~ence than that of the four major prophets, but simply because the Scnptures which they wrote are shor…
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of results than oven Jeromioh's. 1. He denrw1ncerl Ephraim's sin, 'fhe nation l,a<l rojcctc<l Jehovah ae ite Husband, and gone a-whoring after other gods. So Hosea wa~ raised up on purpose to rebuke this unfaithfulness in all ite forms: the Baal-worship, the calf-worship, the ra.mpa.nt licentiousness, the revolt from t…
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( eh. i. and iii.) of this book? The most interesting problem of Hosca's life nnd the ".,.e_xed ques~ion" in_the exposition of his prophecy, li~s !n th~ mee.ning of this Btory of his domestic experiences. There have been three prmc1p11.l mterpret11.tions. At tho nue extreme is the eeverely literal new; viz. that Hos…
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Vers. 3-9.-Hosea's children. Not only was the prophet's marriage to be a sil!:n; the children were to be for signs also. So, afterwards, were Isaiah's sons in Judah (Isa. vii. 3, 14; viii. 3). Hosea's ill-starred children were cursed in the very names which they bore; and each of these was to be ,as a sermon to the nat…
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him" I The life of the naUon was such as at length to allow him no alteruaUve but to dcclnro tho.t he would not be their God. Jehovah mUBt disRolve his covenant relation to them. Ho is compelled to disown and disinherit them. Henceforth they are to bo no longer n sacred poople; they o.re to differ in nothing from the p…
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Ver. 11.-" Great MaJ,l be the day of Jezreel." . Jezreel means "sown of God,''. or "God's sowing" (eh. it 22, 23). These wo~ds. empody .a r\ch Messianic promise which has already been partially fulfilled, but the complete realizatipn of which is yet in the future. The import of this oracl_e_ was not exhausted by the r…
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~,:nned in his obtdimce became he wa.~ seeking hia own ends, and not God's. He slew the p1:inces of Ahab's house because they might rebel against himself; e.nd destroyed the priesthood ?f Daal and Astart.e because, as they owed their position to Jezebel, they would foment dissension, and use their influence against …
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Hazael hnd conquered, had subdued Moab and recovered DamBBcua. The kingdom seemed strong, but it wo.s on the eve of disruption. So has it often been. When the King of Babylon wns feasUng with his nobles, Cyrus was marching up the bed of the river, transforming the city's means of defence into its means of destruction. …
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they wn0 cheered by the promise, "I will have mercy upon the house of Judo.h, 1md will ~ave them by the Lord their God." The earlier fullilm'ell.t of these words Is recorded in 2 Kings :Kix., where we read of the deliverance of Jerusalem, not by bravo defence, nor by bribes, nor by auxiliaties, but by the unseen pes…
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expected nnd could not hnve been foreseen. 1. In history we see thrit God has oftrn baffled man. Ho has defied probabilities, and chosen things which were weak tn conround things which were mighty. Take as a.n example the destinies of AsRyria and Judah, which were utterly unlike what man would have predicted. Assyria, …
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Yer. I.-The word of the Lord. It is characteristic of the inspired Hebrew prophets that they sank themselves, their own individuality, in their Divine commission, and in the authority which accompanied it. In reading their prophecies we feel, as those to whom they were first addressed must have felt, that there was …
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Ver. 6.-Mercy denied. The iniquity of Israel surpassed that of the sister kingdom of Judah. Hence the awful message of the Lord to the former, contrasting with the declaration of favour made towards the latter. There is perhaps nothing more terrible in the whole of revelation tb~the name symbolically given to the daugh…
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Vers. 9, 10.-Reje-ction and restoration. Paradox is often the highest truth, Con- sistency is the idol of the logician. A.nd not only is the course of the wise and good man now and again at variance with itself; God's ways sometimes appear to us as returning upon tllemselves. Yet there is a moral unity and order observ…
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Ver. 1.-Scripture, kings, and truth. "The word of the Lord that oa.me unto Hosea, the ron of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah, and in t.he days of ,Jeroboam the son of Joa.sh, King of Israel." This verse leads us to consider three things. I. THE ESSENCE OF SCRIPTURE. What is …
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to all generations. It is coniruous with all intellects, it chimes in with all heartF, it provides for the common wn.nts of 1111. 2, The "Word of the Lord" is neces.~a;ry for all goncra.tions. All mon in all ages and lands want it; it is as indispensable to their hn.ppinoss as a.ir is to their life. Generations may app…
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Vars. 6, 7.-Goa's ,,,-cy. "For I will no more have l'nercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. Dut l will have mercy upon the house of ,ludah, and will save them by the Lord theiT God, and will not save them by bow nor by sword, nor bs battle, by horses, nor by horsemen." This passage leads us …
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Auel tho foam of his gasping lay whit.e on tho tor! And colcl M the spray of the rock-beating snrf. • "And there lay the rider distorted Md pale, With the clew on his htow and the rust on bis mall• And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, • The lances unlifted, the trumpet nnblown." Looking at the words i…
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of rrYercnce and Adoring love. They shall "worship the Father in spirit and in trnth." "The lt'vi11g God." The world hM abounded with dead gods; there is but one 1i1•ing God. He is the Living One. He is J.ife, the primal Fount of all existence, Christ calls him the living Father. "As the livin~ Father sent me , , , …
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It seem!! to us (9 that the bihlical data do not warrant us in assuming the irlentity r,r the Pu! of 2 Kings xv. 19, 20, to whom Mennhem paid tribute, with Tiglath-pileser (of, 1 Chron. vi. 26); ancl that insupernble difficulties attend the lowering of the dates of the kings to the degree necessary to bring them into e…
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Vers. 1--3.-The "wi,fe of whoredoms." We cannot doubt but that real inci- dents in the prophet's history underlie the representations of this chapter. Hosea, in obedience to what he recognized to be a word o( God, took to wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. The names (Gomer, " completion; " Dihlaim, "fig-cakes") ma…
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III, 'J'1m Bl!lST-GUARDED HOMES ARE NOT SAFE FROM THE INFECTION OF SURROUNDING EVH,. No home wonld be more jealously guarded than Hosea's. Yet the infection entered it, In o. dissolute state of society it is almost imposgible to exclu<le the pes- tiferous germs wHh which the moral atmosphere is loaded. They find insidi…
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Ver. 10-ch. ii 1.-Mercy triumphant over ;udgment. This which has been describell• would fall (and did fall) on Israel. Yet would not God's purpose in the calling of the Il6tion thereby be defeated. Woeful a.s wa.s the apostasy, it did not take God by sur• prise. It had been foretold (Deut. iv. 25-28; xxx.i. 16-19). …
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EXPOSITION. ent generations to the children of whoredoms. CHAP'fER IL Before them the prophet says, 'Plead with Ver. 1.-(Sce p. [).) yow.- mother"' (Ki.mchi). Adultery per se Ver. 2.-Plea.d with your mother,ploa.d: for is a virtual dissolution of the ma.rriage-tie ; she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, ido…
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11~ enr-rin~ or noee-ringt1, and other waye of cannot with any propriety be said of a plaoe, derkinc: h<'rself, IM! by pa.inting, the expres- whether desert or otherwise. No doubt the sion may imply lMcivious looks and wanton _wildernOSI! ml\y sto.nd for tboso dwelling iu expl'88l!ions ol' countenance; while the men…
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eho.mefnl things." The nature of her sh11,rne- clothing; while the oil and drinks were, tlrn ful conduct is more definitely e.nrl distinctly former for ornament, the latter for refresh- cxpreesed in the clauses which follow; e.nd ment, and so included all luxuries; thue in coneisted of severe.I particulars. 'fhere is P…
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]oven, but she'1hall not overtake them; and eilver and -gold. The pe!'version of theso ehe ehe.11 seek them, but &hall not ftnd them. blessings consisted in her employment of Thi• portion of the verse expresses the them in the service of Be.a.I or of idolnll'y in <'nnaequence of the preceding. However genera.I. The …
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of CLn indifferent ha.rvost o,nd of e. be.d were the three onnunl festivals of PMBQve,r, vlntogo for weeks previously might he.ve Pentecost, and Te.bema.clee. "Her nr,w propored them in some sort for the disaster. moons" were the monthly celebrotione at the But whon the time of he.rvest has olreacly commencement of ea.…
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only lurn<:d nairle to idols, but most stupidly plur11.l, hM respect to the variou9 forms of nnd most in<'xcus11.bly attribured the many the BRe.l-idoh1try,or modification of the Boal- merc.i<'a she enjoyed to the idols which she worship; for ex1tmple, Be.al-peor, Baal-bc- worahipperl. Like IL foul adulteress despis…
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very emphnticnlly," Bh6 /IYT'gal;" tlmt is, me "therefore," hae aomewha,t puzzled commen- the true Goel, her bountiful Benefactor, her tators, because the connootion between the gracious Lorel, nnrl loving Husbo.nel, she fur- judgmente th~eatened in the preceding verse! gnt. 'l'lle visitation expressed by ,p9 with ane…
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forl'fRlhPrs in the ";ldomesR, t.hPn will I to the pnRscssion of the whole, so tlu~t the !!pC'nkenmfortHblyunto them." God humbled door of hnpcful expoctatio11 nnd of joyful their forefitthers in Egypt, yet tbe.t did not RnticipRt.iou would be thrown wide open to puffiee; he hnmhled thorn aft.orwarde in the them. Th…
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• V111lcy,' ne it should be, His because it shall namo, which, in the lips of Israel, harl supr:r- be to thPm as a door, einco from there they sederl that of the true God the rneanino- bein" ahnll outer into 1ho lanrl as they rlicl at the (2) "Thou wilt no more c~ll to me, :l'Iy°DMI.;: first, and it shall ho to them…
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C'ontinue is the manner in which it ie effected, tures e. ecene of peace for Israel's future; the or mther, the be.sis on which it ie este.b- versos following warrant the expectation of lished. Justice e.nd judgment present its perpetuity, owing to the higher and holier righteousness under two espects-subjective relati…
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HOMILETICS. Vors. 2-5.-The prophet ezMbits the gross sin of idolatry. The prophet in this section exposes the shame as well as sin of idolatry. It is a. mistaken notion to suppose, with some, that the tribe of Judah is here urged to plead with the tribes of Israel; for Ierael cannot, with any propriety of speech or fi…
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So great is the mercy of God, that if she lent an ear to the pl~adings of her children 0rphaned through her misconduct, and put away her whoredoms or defilements with many lovers, and her adulteries or departures from her rightful Husband and Lord she might hope for restor~t)on. Th1)s ~od_deals wi~h sinners in gener…
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thing that draws away our thoughts and affections from God, or that occ1lpies that place in our head that belongs to him, is o.n idol-not so rude as the ima"'e of wood, or stone, or metal, but not less perilous, not lees pernicious, not less insidious. Let us beware of following such lovers; let us beware of spiritual …
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had long gone by. They 't'honght of the time when Jehovah was the God of'Isrllel si~.ting ~tween the cherub_im, and when the pro_sperlty of the ~ple had kept pae; 'lnth their piety. Bow d1fferent now! How different ever Qfter ·Jeroboam seduced them to the idolatry of the calves, or Ahab indoctrinated them in ·the he…
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drink, or whatever we <lo, we mny glorify Go<l?" The ohuse of God's mercies abridgeR the time of their enjoyment; when we mis11ge or mismanage our stewardship, he turns us out of office, o.nd tells us we mny be no longer steward11; when'.we forget the Giver 11nd forsake his service, we forfeit our interest in his gifts…
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destruction of their vines and fig trees affected, not only their preser.t and actual pos• sessions, but also their future and possible prospects. The frmts of one year, or even of ~cversl, might fail; but other years of better harvests and other seasons of greater fruitfulness might repair in some measure the loss. '…
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