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Hosea 3:2

Hosea 3:2 (WEB)

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Fathers and councils · 2

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “Mention, too, is made of certain measures then in use, such as ephah, and nebel, and hin, and the like.” — editor's note: Nebel is defined by Epiphanius de pond. et mens. c. 24, as follows, Νέβελ οἴνου, ὅπερ ἐστὶ μέτρον ξεστῶν ρ'ν' (150 pints). The word is merely a transcription…

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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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