Hosea 1:2 (WEB)
When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the LORD.”
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…Hosea the prophet take “a wife of whoredoms,” prophesying by means of the action, “that in committing fornication the earth should fornicate from the Lord,” that is, the men who are upon the earth; and from men of this stamp it will be God’s good pleasure to take out a Church which shall be sanctified by fellowship…” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2, 3.
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John Chrysostom
“Therefore in like manner as those of old took harlots for wives, even so God too espoused unto Himself the nature which had played the harlot: and this also prophetsfrom the beginning declare to have taken place with respect to the Synagogue.” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2; Jer. iii.; Ezek. xxiii. 4, 5, 11.
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Jerome
“Hosea speaks many times of Ephraim, of Samaria, of Joseph, of Jezreel, of a wife of whoredoms and of children of whoredoms, of an adulteress shut up within the chamber of her husband, sitting for a long time in widowhood and in the garb of mourning, awaiting the time when her husband will return to her.” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“Hosea took a wife of whoredoms, Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and this harlot bore him a son called Jezreel or the seed of God.” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2–4.
Read the whole comment“Judah went in to Tamar thinking her to be a harlot; and according to the letter that killeth the prophet Hosea married not only a whore but an adulteress.” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2, 3.
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Tertullian
“…you will condone incests, too, for Lot’s sake; and fornications combined with incest, for Judah’s sake; and base marriages with prostitutes, for Hosea’s sake; and not only the frequent repetition of marriage, but its simultaneous plurality, for our fathers’ sakes: for, of course, it is meet that there should also be…” — editor's note: See Hos. i. 2, 3; iii. 1–3.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“He blamed the righteous, and He held up and lifted up [to view] their delinquencies: He pitied sinners, and restored them without cost: and made low the mountains of their sins: He…” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And when, he says, the prophet affirms, “Take unto yourself a wife of whoredom, since the earth has abandoned itself to fornication, (departing) from (following) after the Lord;” that is, Edem (departs) from Elohim.” — editor's note: Hos. i. 2.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.