Commentary
Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 1:8
Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.
8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah , she conceived and bare a son .
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 whilest they give suck, so this Gomer, weaned her daughter er'e the conceived the Son which is to be an Emblem of the final re[illegible: 1 letter]ection of the ten Tribes.
To be a third sign to this incorrigible and self-undoing Kingdom.
Matthew Poole and continuators, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, Hosea 1:8. Public domain.
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